Xbox Reiterates It Will Have Stronger Relations With Square Enix Going Forward

Meanwhile Star Ocean 2 Remastered just skipping Xbox
And still no FF7 remake for Xbox....

Words good, games better. Been down this road with Squeenix multiple times now, lets see what we get and then if the relationship can last more than a few years.

And while everyone is clamoring for Final Fantasy, I'll take The Last Remnant Remastered - I'm low maintenance. Just give me whats rightfully an Xbox game to start.

At this point it's like South Park's George RR Martin saying "They're coming!"

This is the biggest nothing burger ever.
If we're still not getting FF7 Remake, we don't CARE.
If we're still never getting FF 16 we don't care. What does this even mean? That in 5-7 years when FF 17 comes, we MIGHT see it on Xbox?? Phil REALLY stood on that stage, knowing that xbox fans want those games, to tell us that FF 14 was coming? Knowing the other games weren't coming?
Star Ocean 2 remake? No?
This whole thing is meaningless!

@GunValkyria I'm legitimately annoyed that I "had" to buy a ps5 to play square's games, I literally play everything else on Xbox.

I have ps4 and ps5 but learned pretty quickly that Square Enix games are not something I am interested in. I played the FF7 remake and don't plan to ever check out 16 or any of the next FF7 remakes.

Would love to see them "partner closely" with, for starters, getting FF15 a "Series X Enhanced" update, get rid of the nonsensical options of Detail at 30fps vs crap resolution at 60fps and let's see it run better looking AND smoother than it can on any PlayStation console, if I was Phil that would be my first "act of good faith" demand; you want to claim fealty to Xbox? PROVE IT!

After that, the next order of business needs to be a complete port of the FF7 remaster series, starting with the first one immediately, and then each one thereafter a commitment to release them simultaneously on PS and Xbox at the same time every future installment, AND the quality and performance must at LEAST have parity with the 50% weaker PS hardware.

Then, and only then, can Square Enix prove that they deserve respect from the Xbox community.

I am not a FF fan, tho i did want to give FF16 a try as it looks different and i might like it. I do however know the importance of FF games and would like to see Xbox get them for those that really want to play them and not get a PS. I have a PS5 but not paying $70 for a game i might not enjoy. I do have respect for the production values in FF games. Let’s hope Xbox players interested in the series get’s more good news in 2024.

I hate monthly subscription for a game. I wish it was just buy to play. I mean you still have to buy the game and the expansions. I know it has free trial, but once you buy the game, you lose access to the free trial. You would have to make a new SE and xbox account to go back to playing the trial. And even tho the game lets you play as long as you want in free trial, you can't invite anyone to party. You can get invited by other players tho. But if and friend both on free trial, you won't be able to add eachother to group. Because of this, I couldn't get into the game.

I'd be happy with just Final Fantasy 14. But with Octopath Traveler 2 also coming in Spring it is a good start. Like others I hope the new Star Ocean Second Story R & Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters plus other 2022 titles we missed come to Xbox.
But the big rumour being Dragon Quest 10 offline coming to the west 🙂. If it is true & it comes to Xbox hopefully it gets released with the Switch & PS4/5 editions. Then we can expect a bright future.
But it all takes time so I guess we have to be patient. With Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth only being 3 months exclusive to PS5 & a Switch 2 port reported maybe FF7 is coming? If not maybe Ff16 after it's PC release.

Clearly Square and MS will have Unpresented Relationship from no on! Sorry for the cliche joke but I don't see this going anywhere. To be honest PS5 is a good console but before FF16 I could play all games in my launch model PS4. FF is my favourite series of all time and I know that I need a Playstation (or a PC and a bit of patience) to play the games.

@armondo36 im pretty sure ps5 players aren't to keen, having to buy an xbox to play elder scrolls and fallout in the future

So its phil whos saying this not square..well erm...thats nice.

Big problem the article notes is fans want more games on gamepass instead of just wanting the games on xbox to buy and support

@Mephisto2869 that's exactly my point. Gamers are the ONLY people who have to do that.

@Rmg0731 Yeah, I think what we're going to see is Octopath 2 flops on Xbox because it's not on Game Pass and FFXIV Xbox players stop playing after they've used up the free trial. That kind of situation repeats resulting in relations souring.

@GunValkyria In my opinion, the One thing Xbox is missing is good First-person story driven single player games like God of War, The Last of Us and Spiderman. These are the main reason I play games and there have been almost zero on Xbox with the exception of multiplat games like Assassins Creed and a handful of other games. And i am in no way talking about Souls like games. There are way too many of those and don't interest me at all.

@NeutronOverload You alright? You seem a bit disturbed. The reality is Square doesn't have to prove anything to the Xbox community. They're doing fine without them. Unfortunately it's the Xbox community that has to show their interest (although interest is there) for most Square titles. It's why Square is comfortable with mainly Nintendo and Sony. Square sells the most on those platforms. Btw, the Series X isn't 50% more powerful than the PS5. Stronger console sure, but not anywhere near that margin.

@Rmg0731 the bulk of Games Pass users are on PC & mobile in Japan.

@GunValkyria 100% agree. Anime and Japanese games in general are very popular worldwide. Xbox having more of these titles will only help the appeal of the brand.

I find there are quite a few Xbox fans that have no interest in Japanese games and even scoff at the idea of Xbox focusing more on that region or those types of games. These people don't understand that being the only console out of three that lacks Japanese stuff rules out ever buying an Xbox for a significant amount of people worldwide.

Im curious to see how flopspoken would run on xbox