@Kaloudz if by download somewhere besides the Play Store, sure there are ways. But if you're going to sail those seas (yarrr) I'd actually just recommend grabbing a GBA rom and patching it with a graphics, font, and music patch (to kinda un-GBA it). That gets you the newer translation, which I believe is what the Pixel Remaster has. Also controller support, which PR doesn't, as well as bonus content (a dungeon or two, more espers, etc). PR does have some pretty magic effects, though, can't lie lol.
@jbreez00 the weird thing to me is that they DO... And then randomly don't. DQ XI S is on Xbox. And DQ is weird because if anything they are generally more Nintendo focused than Sony. FF VII-XIII/XIII-2/LR are on Xbox, but not Xiv. I don't know if XI still works or if that's effectively PC only though. Then also FF XV. Before they purged their non-Japanese acquisitions, Xbox got stuff like Deus Ex and Tomb Raider. Xbox has their Guardians of the Galaxy game, the Avengers game (just lacking Spiderman because of Sony "exclusives are bad for the industry" throwing cash at them). Xbox got Kingdom Hearts 3. Outriders was a day 1 Game Pass release. And they've had a number of their titles (including most of the FFs and DQ XI) in Game Pass at times. Oh, Type 0 was on Xbox. They published Sleeping Dogs and the Life is Strange series, Worlds of Final Fantasy, Chrono Cross, Stranger of Paradise: FF Origin, Nier Atomata. The original Nier on 360 with a protag redesign, and the remake later (Replicant) on X1. Diofield Chronicles also hit the platform last yr.
But there are all these odd skips. Like Xbox gets Chrono Cross but not Tactics Ogre, Valkyrie Profile, Front Mission or Live a Live? Diofield but not Octopath or Triangle Strat? Some of these still live as Switch exclusive even, but they're all hitting PC. And you'd think they're move to turn Valkyrie Profile into an action game might benefit an Xbox player base, but they thought otherwise. Most FFs from PS1 era to current, so the reason people balk now isn't that Xbox shouldn't expect FF games. It's that they were invited to the table for everything but one MMO, then all of sudden we have classic remakes and rereleases not coming, 16 not coming, etc. It's kind of like reminding people who say it was expected that Spidey games going forward wouldn't be on Xbox due to a misunderstanding of the Spidey rights (some ppl think Sony outright owns the character in all media), and you pull up a list to remind them that the ONLY console game prior to the Insomniac titles that wasn't multiplatform was PS1s Enter Electro. Obv no bearing on Square, but a similar situation of the narrative VS the truth behind people's expectations.
, 2@*ValentineMeikin DQ XI for me was an interesting case where if I do double dip, it's usually on another platform. Also the Xbox version was in Game Pass for a long time, so I don't think I outright purchased it when I played there. The Persona titles are in that boat too. Essentially it's like this - game launches on Sony hardware. If we later see a mild upgrade re-release that's multi-platform, sometimes it is hard to justify the rebuy. Persona 5 R, for example. On Switch the justification is "it's portable and finally on Nintendo!" On Xbox it's "one of the best versions of the game and finally on Xbox - ooo and it's on gamepass, let me pre-download that!" And on PS5 it was "yea that's gonna be a full price download to get dlc you may have already bought on the PS4 version and an FPS bump for a turn-based Rpg, please understand." Like the convo from the Sony fan side was very sour while the other platforms were more positive. DQ was a similar boat for me, where I had trouble justifying dropping another $60 for some modest upgrades to a game I already owned, but have run through it in other places (GP on Xbox, and when they pulled that I jumped on a Steam Sale for my deck).
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Re: Xbox Misses Out On Yet Another Upcoming Square Enix Release
@Kaloudz if by download somewhere besides the Play Store, sure there are ways. But if you're going to sail those seas (yarrr) I'd actually just recommend grabbing a GBA rom and patching it with a graphics, font, and music patch (to kinda un-GBA it). That gets you the newer translation, which I believe is what the Pixel Remaster has. Also controller support, which PR doesn't, as well as bonus content (a dungeon or two, more espers, etc). PR does have some pretty magic effects, though, can't lie lol.
Re: Xbox Misses Out On Yet Another Upcoming Square Enix Release
@jbreez00 the weird thing to me is that they DO... And then randomly don't. DQ XI S is on Xbox. And DQ is weird because if anything they are generally more Nintendo focused than Sony. FF VII-XIII/XIII-2/LR are on Xbox, but not Xiv. I don't know if XI still works or if that's effectively PC only though. Then also FF XV. Before they purged their non-Japanese acquisitions, Xbox got stuff like Deus Ex and Tomb Raider. Xbox has their Guardians of the Galaxy game, the Avengers game (just lacking Spiderman because of Sony "exclusives are bad for the industry" throwing cash at them). Xbox got Kingdom Hearts 3. Outriders was a day 1 Game Pass release. And they've had a number of their titles (including most of the FFs and DQ XI) in Game Pass at times. Oh, Type 0 was on Xbox. They published Sleeping Dogs and the Life is Strange series, Worlds of Final Fantasy, Chrono Cross, Stranger of Paradise: FF Origin, Nier Atomata. The original Nier on 360 with a protag redesign, and the remake later (Replicant) on X1. Diofield Chronicles also hit the platform last yr.
But there are all these odd skips. Like Xbox gets Chrono Cross but not Tactics Ogre, Valkyrie Profile, Front Mission or Live a Live? Diofield but not Octopath or Triangle Strat? Some of these still live as Switch exclusive even, but they're all hitting PC. And you'd think they're move to turn Valkyrie Profile into an action game might benefit an Xbox player base, but they thought otherwise. Most FFs from PS1 era to current, so the reason people balk now isn't that Xbox shouldn't expect FF games. It's that they were invited to the table for everything but one MMO, then all of sudden we have classic remakes and rereleases not coming, 16 not coming, etc. It's kind of like reminding people who say it was expected that Spidey games going forward wouldn't be on Xbox due to a misunderstanding of the Spidey rights (some ppl think Sony outright owns the character in all media), and you pull up a list to remind them that the ONLY console game prior to the Insomniac titles that wasn't multiplatform was PS1s Enter Electro. Obv no bearing on Square, but a similar situation of the narrative VS the truth behind people's expectations.
Re: Xbox Misses Out On Yet Another Upcoming Square Enix Release
, 2@*ValentineMeikin DQ XI for me was an interesting case where if I do double dip, it's usually on another platform. Also the Xbox version was in Game Pass for a long time, so I don't think I outright purchased it when I played there. The Persona titles are in that boat too. Essentially it's like this - game launches on Sony hardware. If we later see a mild upgrade re-release that's multi-platform, sometimes it is hard to justify the rebuy. Persona 5 R, for example. On Switch the justification is "it's portable and finally on Nintendo!" On Xbox it's "one of the best versions of the game and finally on Xbox - ooo and it's on gamepass, let me pre-download that!" And on PS5 it was "yea that's gonna be a full price download to get dlc you may have already bought on the PS4 version and an FPS bump for a turn-based Rpg, please understand." Like the convo from the Sony fan side was very sour while the other platforms were more positive. DQ was a similar boat for me, where I had trouble justifying dropping another $60 for some modest upgrades to a game I already owned, but have run through it in other places (GP on Xbox, and when they pulled that I jumped on a Steam Sale for my deck).