Gordon McLooooonin

@_SpyDtroid_ Glad you’re enjoying the experience !! Wish I comms erase all my FF7 knowledge so I could experience it for the first time again!

I JUST NOTICED THAT AERITH DOES THE SAME POSE FROM THE SLEEPING FOREST AND CLOUD SUBCONSCIOUSLY “REMEMBERED” AND BEGAN TO CRY??? I think i’m beginning to see why y’all are saying it’s a “sequel” or at least a meta sequel(?)

The sequel I'm most hoping to hear announced this summer is: ______________________

@BobbyWasabi Never too late to join the party!! Enjoy the ride

2 years late but this deadass might be the best game I’ve ever played

Thought we were around the bend last night. Appears to not be the case. I will be back.

@BltzZ7 RE———playing FF7 OG is on the cards!! Once we get a title drop for part three I am firing that bad boy up!

RE-

@nhamaguc You are a legend!!

We’ve announced that FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH will launch on June 3. With the addition of Switch 2 and Xbox, the game will be released as a full multi‑platform title. This year, we plan to share more updates on the FINAL FANTASY VII Remake Project than ever before. We look forward to celebrating together with even more players around the world. - FFVII REBIRTH の発売日を 6月3日 と発表しました。Switch 2、Xbox を新たに加え、マルチプラットフォームでお届けします。 今年は FFVII リメイクプロジェクトの情報を、これまで以上に積極的に発信していく予定です。より多くのゲームファンの皆さんと一緒に、世界中で盛り上がっていければと思います。 #FF7R #Switch2 #Xbox #PS5 #Steam #EGS

@_subtxt_ Man I remember the lead into remake being one of the most amazing things to be a part of, rebirth a bit less so! I hope they really push the boat out and get us hyped as fuck for part 3, it is the last hurrah after all!

I was just wavering on a State of Play reveal 😞 After all, would they show Part 3 next week or just wait for summer when Switch has everything? Then HamaGOAT said “This year, we plan to share MORE UPDATES THEN EVER BEFORE” 👀 Bro… bro… bro… BRO

@maximilian_ That’s really tough to deal with. I hope you and the family are looking after each other. Lots of love my Dood

Watching your loved ones be sick is probably one of the most difficult things. As a natural fixer, having their health be outside your control is difficult for me to accept.

@_subtxt_ I love how Nomura talks about FF7, you can tell it mean something deep to him and that the remake project isn’t one he takes lightly.

I’ve mentioned on stream for months that I expected some sort of dev statement for the anniversary. We finally got it. But not a development update, though a focus on how they’ve tried to bring original visions to life. +1 to “Reimagining” folks… but I still think it’s more.

@NightSkyKing_ Slow and steady wins the race……eventually

Of course it also depends on how many copies they actually printed but this is probably a very good sign. I think the 8-9M threshold will be crossed soon if not already. 7R1 will might be one of the best selling FF games of all time when it's all said and done, though slowly

@finalfantasyvii Ps5 pro version please!!?? 🙏🏼

The latest update for Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade is now available on PS5 and PC! Streamlined Progression makes Midgar more accessible than ever, whether you’re just starting out or jumping back in.

@nhamaguc Ps5 Pro PSSR version of Remake??? Please!! 🙏🏼

After we announced Streamlined Progression for FFVII Remake, we received a lot of requests to bring the update to PC and PS5 as well. In response to that, we’ve decided to roll out the update across all platforms, timed with the launch of the Switch2 and Xbox versions. I’m excited for even more players to experience it. - FFVII リメイクのブースト機能を発表してから、PCやPS5でも使いたいというリクエストを多くいただきました。 その声に応える形で、Switch2やXboxの発売タイミングに合わせて、全プラットフォーム向けにアップデートすることになりました。 より多くの方に楽しんでもらえると嬉しいです。 #FF7R

@GameLogIQ Nicely put.

For those who have not been able to pick up on sarcasm & satire, I do apologize. 1. Exclusives do matter. 2. Exclusives are not just game titles. 3. Exclusives exist in every capitalist market. 4. To say exclusive game titles should not be permitted while other product differentiators that can only be offered by one company due to scope & scale, patents, copyright, etc is hypocritical. And shows a lack of understanding in how capitalism works. "Let us compete" is not limited to "Let us acquire and conduct unabated consolidation". 5. Consumers benefit the most when suppliers offer multiple business models; when all suppliers are forced to conform to one business model and buyers must conform to one means of consumption, buyers suffer by having lesser choice. 6. When product differentiators are eliminated, suppliers seek to produce lowest cost products, and quality products become scarce as the sole differentiator becomes price. Products become commodities; pork-bellies. 7. People use product differentiators as tie-breakers. If all things btn two products are the same...if 90% of the games are the same...if the HW is 90% the same tech...then consumers are making decisions based on whatever is left over that is different. 8. Everyone is not ONLY choosing PS5 & Nintendo Switch / Switch 2 over XB Series based on where their friends are playing b/c we have cross-play. That theory also skates by the fact that new gamers are coming into the market every day who do not have a preponderance of friends already on one platform. 9. Those new gamers also do not have a pre-existing gaming library, so they are not buying solely based on where their digital library already exists. The choice is a greenfield for them. 10. CLV is more important than ARPU, & ARPU is more important than MAU. Throw ARPPU anywhere in there you like. A lot of MAU with lesser revenue actually means you have lower-value customers, and that despite the higher MAU they are not driving your business to greater market-share. 11. At scale, the entire market is not making decisions based SOLELY on exclusives. It is ONE differentiator amongst many. But it IS a differentiator. Saying they are not in the equation AT ALL is playing gaming politics and pandering. 12. XBox has expended $100bn+ in acquisitions since Mojang in order to be #2 in revenue. They have the least amount of market share. PlayStation makes the greatest amount of revenue amongst the Big Three. Nintendo has the highest profit margins amongst the Big Three. Those are quantifiable & objective facts. Denying them is believing the earth is flat. Spinning them is a grift. You can decide from there on your own who is following the best strategy. Some of you guys appear to be new around my feed. These are the basic tenets. I've been trying to present them in some more interesting fashion than a listicle. My apologies if that caused confusion. I can use the TEDtalk format instead. Feel free to like and subscribe to this account or the podcast channels. The message is the same. And consistent. These are the 12 Proverbs. Feel free to commit them to memory.

@PaulTassi Makes sense if your having funding issues on a project, bring time to value forward (usually done by descoping something), project becomes self funding earlier and march on with the Xbox version. This is one of the reasons I don’t have much of an issue with timed exclusives.

Wait is Dispatch seriously not on Xbox

Watch old #FF7 stream and the kitten can’t get enough of @maximilian_ !

@Xvault2 Feel like people talk about exclusives like they are 90% of all games and launching multi plat games is something new! As long as exclusives remain a small sub set of games used to promote a system/hardware I really don’t see the threat to the industry or them going anywhere.

Exclusives matter, still matter, and will always matter as long as they are made. Any excuse stating otherwise has lost the plot and have other agendas behind the intent.

@BurntOutGenY @GameLogIQ Read ‘measure what matters’ , brilliant read. Funnily enough your objective should never be a monetary goal, revenue and growth should be a function of providing value to the customer and running an efficient business, that’s why things like MAU become important.

@XyconGaming @GameLogIQ I’m not gonna pretend I used OKR in direct monetary business strategies but I used it when I worked in higher education to develop and maintain curriculum to increase outcomes and produce a more desirable location to study, increasing profits. These numbers are not linear

- Jez is wrong. - His thesis is built on false constructs, and the results he draws, logically, are also then incorrect. Exponentially so. - Units sold and revenue are not profitability. It is not the sole KPI that qualifies a successfully strategy and its supporting OKRs. I shouldn't have to correct this every week in the multiple conversations in the gaming community. We also need to consider ARPU, ARPPU, and CLV. - It's not simple math. It's not even algebra. The effort to flatten the complexity is why the assessments are so often incorrect. - The simple math is that consumers make tie-breakers when down-selecting. Based on criteria; on un-alikes. On product differentiators. - The things keeping PlayStation from doing day-and-date are the strategic tenets that they have told you about and have been telling you about, most especially since the Annual Investor week calls of May, the earnings calls since, and the published strategy slides. Why some choose not to listen I am often bewildered by. Making things up instead of listening to the published matters of record. The silliness is the weekly politicking to try and congeal a thing into being just by stating it over and over, that is not correct, based on personal wants and desires, instead of listening and actually doing business and technical analysis too derive objective conclusions.

@NikoMueller I may disagree with a lot of your points but I don’t wish this on anyone, you spend your hard earned money on something and expect it to work! Onto the next device and keep gaming !

Update on my Xbox ROG Ally X After a third & unsuccessful factory reset the friendly agent from the Microsoft support suggested to exchange my Xbox Ally X (due to possible hardware issues) with my retailer (Media Markt/Saturn). Media Markt was supportive as well, said an exchange would not be any problem - but I might need to expect waiting times reaching from January to March 2026. So I can’t believe I’m writing this … but I took a refund. I was one of the biggest ambassadors for this device, I was hyping it for months. I still think it’s beautiful and I might give it another chance when it becomes available again next year. But for me it’s very important not to sugarcoat anything because I want to be open & honest to you all. If you have a great experience with it and no issues at all - all power to you, I’m happy for you. My experience was disappointing. 1️⃣I paid >€1,000 (w warranty extension) 2️⃣Didn’t get it on launch (4 weeks later) 3️⃣It was not working when I got it 4️⃣Now I need to wait till 2026 Well … jokes are on me now I guess. 😅

@MrkelsGame @yosp I think this can be understated how good this leadership is, knowing when a team can do better, setting the right goals, giving honest feedback and not worrying about stepping on the toes ! It can sound harsh, but as you say, set the challenge! Cream always rises to the top!

BOY!! I remember watching the making of God Of War 2018... imagine Shuhei Yoshida @yosp himself walking in, giving that calm, honest look, and saying “Not impressed.” 💀 That’s not an insult that’s a challenge from one of PlayStation’s finest minds. And instead of crumbling, Cory and the team forged greatness through that pressure, sculpting a masterpiece that went on to claim Game of the Year 2018. That’s the kind of fire only legends can spark and legends can answer. 🔥 💪 #GodOfWar #GodOfWarRagnarok