Square Enix to stop PlayStation exclusivity after PS5-exclusive FF16 & FF7 Rebirth sales disappoint

Square Enix really shot themselves in the foot by making their biggest releases PS5 exclusive. They didn't perform poorly, but they didn't meet sales targets, which is bound to happen when you limit your audience base while trying to make up for massive budgets. Everyone wins with their newfound commitment to make their future major releases multiplatform. PATREON: www.patreon.com/yongyea TWITTER: www.twitter.com/yongyea INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/yong_yea TIKTOK: www.tiktok.com/@yongyea TOP PATRONS [BIG BOSS] - Devon B [BOSS] - Charlie Galvin - Gerardo Andrade - Michael Redmond [LEGENDARY] - azalea

Wow, limiting your game to only approx 1/3 of your user base limits your sales! Who woulda thought?

Isn’t Square Enix the company that always complains about sales on all their games?

The amount of damage control being done to take away from Sony's meddling is insane. They are totally responsible for this.

basically sony isnt paying enough to keep exclusivity. the fact is if you have to wait 1 year after the release of a game before you can play it on a console/pc you own you might as well wait another year for the game to go on sale. the hype is gone.

Maybe they shouldn't have blown all that money on NFTs and micro transactions.

Exclusivity of 3rd party titles benefits no one but the platform holder.

We live in a world where entitled companies think selling 3 million copies is an utter failure. Meanwhile, other studios thanked their fans for the 500k-1m copies sold.

>Make episodic remake of game >Split episodes between different consoles >Sales slump Who would’ve thought

I stopped counting how many times Square Enix said about their games „the sales numbers didn’t meet OUR expectations“…

Available on one platform: ✔️ $70 standard edition: ✔️ Bad world economy: ✔️ What’s the surprise here

man, covid really gave companies unreal expectations of what people will do.

Wow, who would have EVER known that limiting your players to only the people who can afford the newest generation consoles in a major economic downturn where inflation is rising rapidly and prices are already high, would be a bad idea? Truly, it’s just impossible to look at the situation and determine smart moves.

“disappointing sales” is codeword for “we didnt make even more money”

When does Square Enix not say sales disappoint though...

I can't remember the last time square enix released a good title. Kingdom Hearts 3 was a flop, so were the remake games. There were plenty of ps4s when it failed. It was even bundled.

There’s actually some people out there saying to “just buy a PS5”. Many people can’t shell out $500 dollars on the fly. And even if you can, $500 to play one or two games? I’m good!

Setting aside the hyper unrealistic expectations these publishers have, it was beyond stupid to lock these games to a single console platform. That was never going to end well.

Exclusivity is never good for the customer. It's only good for the platform holder.

I’m confused….only selling to one console makes less money as opposed to selling to all the consoles?? How?!?! Someone needs to run the numbers again.