Current years have seen Sq. Enix taking a slightly haphazard strategy when it comes to deciding which platforms to launch its video games for, with the choice to launch main video games corresponding to Closing Fantasy 16, Closing Fantasy 7 Remake, and Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth as PlayStation exclusives having stood out to many. It appears, nevertheless, that these selections haven’t paid off in a monetary sense, with the corporate now set to alter course.
In just lately printed briefing for a monetary assembly that was initially held in Could, along with reiterating that Closing Fantasy 16 and Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth each failed to fulfill business expectations, Sq. Enix has confirmed that it’s now pivoting to a multiplatform mannequin, together with for its legacy titles.
“We are going to shift to a multiplatform technique,” the corporate says. “Within the case of HD video games, we are going to create a world setting that permits extra clients to take pleasure in our main franchises and AAA titles, together with from our again catalog.”
Which means it’s doubtless the corporate will launch its main video games on extra than simply PlayStation proper out the gate, along with bringing present exclusives to different platforms. Closing Fantasy 16, as an example, just lately launched for PC, and based mostly on leaks and feedback from its personal builders, is prone to ultimately come to Xbox Collection X/S as effectively. In the meantime, Xbox gamers will probably even be eager to get their fingers on Closing Fantasy 7 Remake and its sequel.