Nope. AFAIK it was “optimized for the PS5”, along with the rest of the remake, so the chance of it getting ported to the PS4 or other platforms is unfortunately slim to none. Tbch I don’t understand how the difference can be that drastic but it’s the excuse they’re going with anyway.
No, they only made part 1 playable. Everything else is going to be exclusive to the PS5. If you have both consoles you can transfer your data but tons of people don’t so it’s pretty stupid.
Part of me doesn't want to think Square-enix is dumb enough to actually fuck over the fans who can't or won't get a ps5, but then I remember it's SE.
The next installment of the remake probably won’t come out until 2023 at the earliest. Do you really think Square-Enix will still be developing AAA titles for a console that will be ten years old by then? And the PS5 will most likely have a price drop by that time and be more readily available.
Sony probably gave them a sweetheart deal to do this.
I certainly remember laughing very hard when Sony fanboys melted down when the 360 announcement came.
Remember how we got two more games and by the third they threw out everything established in the first two because it was fucking ass?
Some of the areas in 13 had generally good art direction, but level design was a hallway and the battle system was tedious. 13-2 tried to fix the battle system but didn't finish the job and the levels to that were not good either. The Time Mechanic had potential but nothing you did lead to anything interesting and by the end the game also set into tedium. Lightning Returns was probably the only game that got the stuff mostly right, and if it was the actual Final Fantasy 13 it would have been looked upon a lot more fondly.
I can hope but I know they won't. Still pisses me off though.
You can probably buy the PS5 steelbook separate for the game if you want ALL THE THINGS for a shelf. There's only the regular PS5 edition and that's it, the intergrade DLC is on a voucher.
Perhaps I'm just too stubborn, but I don't want a ps5. I'm happy with what I got. The 4 is a perfectly serviceable system. It just seems so stupid to me the release the first instalment on the ps4 then move everything to the next console. It's a giant bait and switch and it just makes me want to finally be done with SE.
The PS3 still got games like Persona 5 three years into the PS4's lifecycle, PS4 looks like it's going to continue that tradition and get a good amount of releases.
I know they've continued developing games for older consoles when the newer ones have come out, but like I said, it just seems like a giant bait and switch. Something that really shouldn't be done by a company. I got other reasons for disliking it, but they're personal and autistic.
I don’t see how you can call this a bait and switch. Developers make sequels on upgraded hardware generations all the time. When the first installment came out in 2020, everyone knew that the PS5 was expected to come out that year. Out of all the dumb stuff Square-Enix has done, I don’t see why one would get hung up on something that ANY developer would do.
A sequel, yes. Part 2 of a game that originally had all it's parts on the same console, nah. Why even release it at all for the previous console then? Just seems kind of shitty to me. "Hey, you want more of this? Buy a whole new console if you want to play the rest of the game."
How many more installments do you expect to be in the remake and how long do you think it will be before it’s done?
How about Xbox? The exclusivity period was supposed to end in April, before Sony extended that to December...
