Games Inbox: PlayStation’s multiformat future, Warzone vs. Blackout, and FromSoftware’s Castlevania

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The Thursday letters page is surprised Final Fantasy 7 Remake wasn’t a bigger hit, as one reader is unimpressed by Super Mario Sunshine.

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Joining the party The controversy over releasing games on PC was bad enough but I’m very surprised to hear Sony talking about wanting to be more ‘multiplatform’ with its games. It’s their business, but am I the only one that thinks that’s incredibly weird? The Xbox Series X is the most powerful console so why would I want to get a PlayStation 5 if it has all, or even just some, of the same games?

Shouldn’t Sony be trying to make more exclusives, not less? I mean, the logical end result of all this is that Sony just goes third party and releases all its games on Xbox at the same time. Perhaps they give up making consoles entirely.

At the end of the day, it’s only the games that matter but it doesn’t even feel like Sony are trying to go down with a fight. Are they already convinced that Xbox is unbeatable and they’re getting ready to join ‘em rather than beat ‘em? It sure feels like that.84Colbat

Relative success As excited as I am to hear more about Final Fantasy 7 Remake I’m still surprised that the first chapter, or whatever they’re going to call it, only sold around 5 million copies. I know that’s a lot but it’s really not compared to other big games. It did about half that of Shadow Of The Tomb Raider, which I thought nobody liked and much less than the other reboot games.

So why did Square Enix get rid of Tomb Raider but not stop anything about Final Fantasy 7 Remake? I know Tomb Raider was expensive to make but I can’t believe the remake was cheap either, if anything I’d guess it was more expensive.

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