For.I.Am.Mad said:
Yeah well....shut up. They should make the game anyway.
That's...umm....definatly a serious argument you got there man....ya....you got me...uhh...thinking...
jamesworkshop said:
No ones asking a FF7 remake to look like XIII only a remake that doesn't look like ass
Grahpics aren't what make a game. There only a small part. Storyline, gameplay, characters, etc etc. Graphics weren't what fueled the other games.
UnusualStranger said:
You know what I find most interesting about this article?
Right underneath the link where I found there, there is the article that there is a rumor that Goldeneye 007 will be remade and possibly shown at E3.
*Facepalm*
All in the timing I guess.
Anyway, I think the biggest question from me for a business standpoint is: Would it not possibly sell out in a matter of hours?
We live in a time where games are $60, and FF VII is so god damned popular if you have video games you seem to be required to know what the hell it is.
The point is brought up that the game would need to be recreated....but isn't that what they are doing when they make a New Final Fantasy? Don't they have to redo so many things, design all the environments, and do it all over again? And even then, the game will likely only sell to so many people at best.
One can nearly Guarantee that a remade FF VII would sell out everywhere in a matter of hours, at full price, to everyone and their family.
The biggest point I'm trying to make here is: Would not the profits back from making such a game far outweigh the costs of making it?
With any remake, you have the idiotic obsessive ones that would probably wait like 3 months to get it.
Also, you do know that 60$ isn't all for Square right? Percent goes to the store, percect goes to publisher, percent goes to trademark holders, percent probably goes to Mircosoft too. So you can probably cout out atleast 40$ of what you were initaly thinking. So yea, you'll have the ones that buy it first night, will give square a few hundred mill most likely, but the costs of making a remake will probably be in the billion doller mark. You also add advertisting, westernazation, the fact of just making it on a next-gen counsel, etc etc, they'd have already spent a pretty penny, AND the time that coulda been spent making another game people would probably like better, and make more money there. Now, if they did a remake, it'd no doubt suffer from the "remake syndrom" alot of remakes suffer from. Twin Snakes would be a good example.
Alot of the devolpers probably know that, and since they want money, the risk wouldn't be that good. Like I said, they'd get atleast a bundle, but if the remake sucks, like it probably would, and word gets around quick "It sucks it sucks it sucks", the profits would no doubt dimmer greatly. Then when it comes to just people bootleging it, or pre-used sales, Square's come up short a few mill to atleast break even.
This is atleast how I look at it.