#Ffxv return to open world portable#

To do what DQXI is doing, you needn't make a 3DS and PS4 version but things much closer together.Д¬oupled with things like UE4 adoption, this could prove an opening up of the genre and giving developers more room to breathe.Д«eyond just console versus mobile, I think it's clear that mobile's Sacred Realm has become a Dark World, where success is hard to come by as opposed to all wishes being answered.

#Ffxv return to open world portable#

With Switch specs, provided Switch trends like a handheld in Japan, JRPG developers have the chance at the domestic market dream, which would broaden the domestic audience for each game and also make formerly portable only series within acceptable production value range for PS4 and the western core market. Perhaps it can save FF itself as a fixture of corebox AAA.ДЄs I posted above to Falk, I think what could help save them is the potential for Nintendo handheld, Sony home console multiplatform. It is not going to create a western audience that can support such either. It is not going to create a new domestic audience that can support a reinvigorated console JRPG scene. It is stuck between trying to reach out to the west at the AAA level and to be important to Japan. Unless it completely changes Japanese buying habits, which it won't do. Yes, it is not an imminent catastrophe scenario but rather a slow march into oblivion.Д¬an FFXV save them? No. outside the diminishing few that rise above, then console JRPGs do need saving. If you care about JRPGs not going increasingly mobile increasingly 'otaku pandering ' increasingly small in scope, ambition, and design etc. Things need to shake up that trend or console JRPG will just continue to shrink into oblivion. Morover, trends are towards these conditions worsening rather than bettering. Production values are harder to maintain now.

But they are being edged off consoles and edged towards niche audiences in a way that threatens their appeal ever widening again.Д«udgets are higher now. Sure, western adoption has always been limited. All the 'JRPG is fine' posts are a bit surprising.