[:plant:] Final Fantasy IV: The After

If this ends up being true, and it's exclusive to XB Live, then I'm wondering why Microsoft would make an offer to Square Enix for a 16-bit direct sequel to an over ten year old game. An all-platform release would be best, undoubtedly, but speaking by preference, I would prefer to play a digital download of a 16-bit game, an RPG no less, on the Wii. At any rate, I'm happy of the possibility that Final Fantasy IV: The After might be getting localized over here. Next, Mother 3, please. *looks at Nintendo*

Edit: Well, thinking about it, I'm not saying it's automatically assumed that Microsoft made an offer for exclusivity, since Square Enix has been supporting Xbox 360, lately.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I'm not saying it won't make a profit, but for a 16-bit sequel is a little bit weird, and you're being a little condescending towards me.

No one is confirming anything, we're speculating.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I'm on the fence just how much money a game like this will earn Microsoft. I mean, yeah sure, it's an FF title, but it's pretty niche if you figure that it's a 16-bit sequel. Besides the loyal following of people who grew up with Final Fantasy IV, I question how well it would sell if it were exclusive to the Xbox 360.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Because of the controller. I prefer the Classic controller over the PS3 and X360 controllers.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Thanks for the sarcasm. Next time be direct with what you want to say, good sir. In a 16-bit game's case, there isn't going to be much of a difference between all three platforms, aside for the preference of the controller.

Look, is this a gang-up on me or something, I detect this being a classic case of regulars ganging up on a newb, or someone who doesn't post as much. It bothers me that you can't respect each other in a civilized manner without resorting to mud slinging. It's juvenile.

I have my preferences, and I have my views on this particular topic. Am I more wrong than you, or are you more wrong than me? No one is really saying anything factual. It's all going by "what I think" or "what you think."

And, that, seems to be, at large, a bigger problem at GamingForce, but that's a topic for another day, and sorry that I derailed the topic, but people kept pecking at my posts.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

For the record, my comment had nothing to do with stature, or regularity to the board, or any such nonsense, it was purely in response to the fact that you made a stupid point. Your justification for why this 'non-game rumour game' should be on the Wii, and not the 360, is because you prefer that controller. Businesses don't base their decisions around the whim of one person, because well hang on now, I prefer the 360 controller. And well, my mate Jeff, he's odd and he likes the Dual Shock 3. Damn which platform should it be on now?

You've come in here and leaped to all sorts of assumptions - about the fact that this is going to be a port of the mobile phone game, that it's going to be 16-bit - and make all sorts of silly statements as if talking with some sort of authority on why your random guesses are accurate, and then have the audacity to suggest that people calling your arguments silly are only doing so because you don't post that much. Please.

I have never said that it should be on one console over the other. I said I'd like to play the game on the Wii, because I like the feel of the Classic controller. I'd rather not play 2D RPGs using the bulky X360 controller.

Originally Posted by Shin

It is a simple fact that writing Final Fantasy on a game guarantees reasonable if not good sales.

It is also a fact that Microsoft have been throwing money at Square to secure exclusives of late, just look at The Last Remnant and getting access to Final Fantasy XIII can't have been cheap.

It's fairly undeniable that Square have suggested that they'll be chucking out some of their old stuff on the XBLA in the future.

It's pretty common knowledge that the XBLA generates much higher sales than Wiiware.

Taking all these undeniable facts into consideration, do you not see how you might be viewed as a bit simple to think that Square and Microsoft wouldn't between them come to some mutually beneficial arrangement regarding the release of some Square IP's over XBLA, at the exclusion of their rivals?

Yeah, you make good points. I realize that Square and Microsoft could come to an agreement, although, it would be nice to offer the game on all platforms so everyone could get a chance to play it, and yeah, it's an opportunity for more profit going to Square.

Anyway, guys, sorry about all this. I didn't mean for this to turn into a heated debate.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

LOL Blanket. Acer wins this thread. I'm buying that day one.

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