"Visions of Mana" Linked to a Day One Launch on Xbox Game Pass

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Late last year, Square Enix unveiled Visions of Mana—the Japanese publisher stated that they had set a general 2024 launch window for their colorful action role-playing sequel, with a planned release across PC, plus current and past generation console platforms. Microsoft's recent Xbox Developer_Direct presentation included a prominent slot for Visions of Mana and its development team—many news outlets started to speculate about the ongoing relationship between Square Enix and Xbox Game Studios. The game appears to be scheduled for a "Summer 2024" launch, although some leaked material alludes to a "Day One" release on the Xbox and PC Game Pass subscription service.

Square Enix is perceived—by the wider gaming community—to have close ties to the Sony PlayStation ecosystem, due to a regular rollout of exclusive titles. For example, the Final Fantasy franchise back catalog is not well represented on Xbox systems—this could change in 2024 and beyond; a port of Final Fantasy XIV Online was announced by Phil Spencer last year at a Fan Fest event. The embracing of Xbox platforms is certainly a novel concept at this point in time, but Microsoft's gaming division has been fighting hard to form new allegiances. Eurogamer has reported that references that tie Visions of Mana to a "Day One Game Pass launch" have been scrubbed from the internet: "There's no longer any mention of Game Pass when searching for the game and its entry on the Xbox website simply states "coming summer 2024" on both console and PC. As such, this could be a mistake. But many fans are hopeful of its Game Pass arrival."




A Microsoft spokesperson informed Eurogamer about the confusion surrounding Vision of Mana's launch day prospects: "We're aware that Xbox.com included language that indicated Visions of Mana was coming to Xbox Game Pass and can confirm this was an error...While we are always updating the library and looking for new ways to provide members with value and choice, we do not have plans to bring Visions of Mana to Game Pass at this time."

Take a sneak peek at a brand new world of Mana with Mana Series Producer, Masaru Oyamada, and Mana Series Creator, Koichi Ishii.

Wishlist Visions of Mana today on PS5, PS4 consoles, Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC and Steam. Visions of Mana will be launching in Summer 2024.

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[lexluthermiester]

@SquareEnix
If you want a wider audience that actually cares about your games, you have to appeal to the audience you originally catered to, the Nintendo 8 & 16 bit Generation. You really need to grasp the concept that you are loosing out on sales by being so hardcore with the DRM. Put your titles on GOG and stop treating people like criminals by default and let us enrich you!

 

[Imouto]

Visions of Mana not coming to Game Pass, Xbox confirms

Visions of Mana will not be coming to Game Pass, Xbox has confirmed to Eurogamer.

www.eurogamer.net

Dude...

 

[lexluthermiester]

Visions of Mana not coming to Game Pass, Xbox confirms

Visions of Mana will not be coming to Game Pass, Xbox has confirmed to Eurogamer.

www.eurogamer.net

Dude...

That might be a slap in the nadds! After all, SquareEnix paid good money for this press-release slot!

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

@SquareEnix
If you want a wider audience that actually cares about your games, you have to appeal to the audience you originally catered to, the Nintendo 8 & 16 bit Generation. You really need to grasp the concept that you are loosing out on sales by being so hardcore with the DRM. Put your titles on GOG and stop treating people like criminals by default and let us enrich you!

Except piracy does exist and is a huge reason to game on the PC, if not the reason to game on the PC, in various regions of the world. Claiming you don't need DRM is like claiming nobody needs door locks just because my area doesn't have a crime problem but when you look at the area around it there is a massive crime area.

These companies run their own metrics on sales lost via DRM vs sales lost due to piracy and they go with what works.

Like it or not PC G4m1ng brough DRM down on itself. DRM will go away on it's own once PC gaming moves up to the cloud so we don't have to wait all that long.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Except piracy does exist

Always has, always will.

and is a huge reason to game on the PC, if not the reason to game on the PC,

Put that nonsense back where it belongs, in your bum with the rest of that crap.

in various regions of the world.

Those markets are not viable to SquareEnix anyway, so no one cares or needs to.

Claiming you don't need DRM is like claiming nobody needs door locks just because my area doesn't have a crime problem but when you look at the area around it there is a massive crime area.

Ignorant statement if ever there was one. GOG doesn't have nearly the problems with piracy that other PC gaming platforms do.

These companies run their own metrics on sales lost via DRM vs sales lost due to piracy and they go with what works.

And they are clueless to actual reality.

Like it or not PC G4m1ng brough DRM down on itself. DRM will go away on it's own once PC gaming moves up to the cloud so we don't have to wait all that long.

The rest of this is silly drivel, why did you bother with it?