“The recent entries in the series may have been harder to engage with” for younger gamers, says Yoshi-P
That said, the most recent mainline installment, Final Fantasy 16, is already almost three years old without a follow-up in sight.
The most recent is Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, but ok, if you mean new game. But the remake games are kind of new games.
Final Fantasy 14 director and longtime Square Enix employee Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida has admitted the JRPG series’ longer release interval is making it hard for younger players to connect with the series.
they maybe forget, Yoshi-P was director for Final Fantasy XVI as well that game that got a pegi 18 rating, as only Final Fantasy game ever. And he is talking about younger player don’t connect to Final Fantasy, making a game not having younger players as target.
But that beside he is kind of right. Game in general take longer nowadays. Either make more teams working on new game or lower the budget would help. But what would help the most for people in general to connect, having a big quality. At least the rating of the last few Final Fantasy were good, but all of them are game i would consider good, but have to much to complain.
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Circana also recently found the vast majority of FF7R players were 30+.
I think at this point, if FF wants to do better with younger crowds, it has to finally release a solid project in the mobile space (exceedingly rare in Japan overall, China’s eating their lunch), or smaller FF projects on Switch. Considering they just decided to realign away from smaller projects, I don’t think there’s a short-term where this series grows its userbase.
There were quite charming Final Fantasy spinoffs in the past which younger player as target. Christal Chronicles games, the chocobo games, maybe even explorer or a bit recent world of final fantasy. I would like to have such kind games again, but almost every spinoff is a mobile game now. And the souls like game or dissidia doesn’t help for a younger audience.