Square Enix to Shift to Multiplatform Strategy in Company Reboot - IGN Daily Fix

In today's Daily Fix:
Square Enix has announced a shift in strategy in relation to what platforms they release their games on. The company has reported an operating loss of nearly $52 million over the past fiscal year, despite launching two major entries in their marquee Final Fantasy franchise. 2023's Final Fantasy XVI and this year's Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth were both PlayStation 5 exclusives, which may have severely limited the number of copies they could sell. Square Enix also announced they will "aggressively purse" releasing games on Xbox and "Nintendo platforms." Nintendo has teased a Switch successor, but no release date has been set. In kind of related news, the original Red Dead Redemption may finally see a PC release. An update to the Rockstar PC gaming launcher site was revealed to make mention of the game and the Undead Nightmare expansion. The game was recently ported to the Switch and PS4, but has never seen an official PC release. And finally, a team of Helldivers 2 modders have flipped a lot of the assets in the game to a Clone Wars-era Star Wars theme, and the results look awesome. Keep an eye on Nexus Mods for when those assets become available.
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[@Aurik-Kal-Durin]

We don't want an Xbox port of _Forspoken._ PlayStation can keep that one. For real.

[@darkcity2004]

Trade Redfall plus a 5th round draft pick for Forspoken and conditional 4th.

[@steveozone4910]

Too busy playing Starfield? 😂

[@Aurik-Kal-Durin]

@@steveozone4910 Starfield is 100x better than Forspoken.

[@sephiroth0992]

What's an xbox?

[@steveozone4910]

@@Aurik-Kal-Durin 0x100 is still 0

[@swapnilgopalka]

AAA Games costs millions of dollars, and years to make, that even successful games like Spiderman 2 struggles to make profit. Exclusivity is nothing but hammering your own company

[@christonchev9762]

Spiderman 2 didn't make a profit also

[@LoliconSamalik]

Nintendo....

[@musicacc2728]

​@@LoliconSamalikNintendo games have lower budget

[@Razear]

RDR finally being ported to PC is so on-brand for Rockstar's release timeline.

[@ConnerKent08]

Probably should’ve did this awhile ago

[@jaahman0098]

They have been. Majority of there games are multiplatform

[@pumpkinpie1509]

​@@jaahman0098xbox has gotten two games since the end of 2022

[@dusermiginte4647]

But later their all from games are square enix exclusive not playstation anymore soon..

[@dancehits4416]

"Forspoken" didn't help square Enix lol

[@crescentmoon256]

finally it's about time they opened their eyes

[@Chittysushi]

Their bet was between Sony’s up front exclusivity cash and sales FF16 and FF7 would produce the profits they wanted but surprisingly it seems that if they would of just put final fantasy on Xbox, PlayStation and PC in the first place they probably would of made a LOT more money in the long run. 🤦‍♂️

[@xBINARYGODx]

@@Luigiplaya246 who the hell are you talking to?

[@Luigiplaya246]

No wonder you like your own comment.

[@Luigiplaya246]

More like you're part of the issue

[@Dmitch1408]

The simple truth is that gaming as a whole is down comparatively to 2020 to 2022. Any gaming company that's trying to replicate what they did in sales several years ago is going to pale in comparison. Combine that with inflation over the last year and you're going to see reduction in profit margins. Adjust accordingly

[@ThisIsCSDX]

Of all the games you could've put on the Xbox cover art, you chose Forspoken?

[@robf]

Kinda suitable right.

[@raskolnikov6443]

lol

[@LoliconSamalik]

we're still pissed at the whole Tango situation...

[@mikecast20]

We don’t need cloud versions of PS2 games, thanks

[@onyx_vii7808]

Console exclusivity is nonsensical at this point. It made sense back in the day. It even makes sense for Sony to get more money. But it makes no sense for the producer in this economy. Big games need big revenue. And that will not happen with exclusivity. Its about a quarter of their true potential finacially.

[@infinity5049]

Brian Altano should host all daily fixes going forward, bro really cracked me up multiple times lol.

[@dingo702]

Hey was there a new NGCW this last Friday?

[@MrCapRoach]

btw imagine how crazy could it be if square enix and sonic team could make a new major sonic game in the open world

[@MarsWrestlingKingdom]

Other Layoff is on the way 😢

[@colinz24067]

if it means putting FFVii Remake trilogy, XVI, and Kingdom Hearts IV on Xbox/switch…..🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

[@Adamantaimai]

FFVII Remake and especially rebirth are incredible games, everyone should play them.

[@MarsWrestlingKingdom]

Console should be different with different mechanisms comparing to each consoles, but game exclusivity should to make profits and stop layoffs

[@MatrixAlphaCWX]

About time! This is great news for all consoles going forward.

[@Anthony-dj4nd]

Makes most since to meet gamers on whatever platform they are playing on for the most profits

[@ChrisDeebo]

This should've been done well before 16 launched

[@jaahman0098]

It has. Majority of their games are multiplatform

[@BossBattleGameplay-]

This should be interesting 👍👍👍

[@blade5883]

Can't wait to play FF16 on my Series X

[@jondeiconic2552]

Rejoice.

[@pricelessppp]

How you like the series x? Thinking of getting it for my birthday this Halloween. Ps5 has gt7 and hell divers. At least xbox has flight sim and f1 games.

[@schwubmexx]

And then it sells like Crap on it like FF15 and the Xbox Ports are dead again. If they even make them in the first place

[@MoFoTRex93]

​@@pricelesspppget it you won't regret it

[@michaelludlow626]

​@pricelessppp gran turismo hasn't been great since the 3rd game, 7 is really bad

[@drallina_lina]

making a game exclusive to 1 side. nowdays really dont play well. specially since console etc prices keep growing ppl dont wanna buy 1 for that 1 game they wanna play. so yeah. just mutiplatform all games and thats it. game become more the reason for money than the consoles.

[@callofdookie1253]

Sony is about to lose big now that Square Enix is ditching their exclusivity deal for a multiplatform release + Heldivers 2 and Ghost of Tsushima is still delisted in 180+ territories

[@nighthunter2364]

Sony is not ditched The new boss of sony is also trying to do what square enix is about to do. What is more sony has already released lots of games on pc.

[@1NotN]

​@@nighthunter2364news flash buddy. if it was just about pc they would of just said pc. They didn't tho they specifically said pc xbox playstation and Nintendo. So maybe stop coping and deflecting

[@schwubmexx]

​@@1NotNWhere did they say Xbox and Nintendo ? The Xbox is dead and the Switch to weak. And the Switch 2 will be to weak too

[@1NotN]

@@schwubmexx Are you joking 😂💀 I can't post links on KZbin. they literally said they are pushing a multiplat strategy and specifically stated xbox pc and Nintendo along with Sony cope. You can look up the business report yourself. This came from them talking to their shareholders. But "boo hoo where they say xbox and Nintendo"

[@1NotN]

@@schwubmexx did you even watch the video that went over the report before typing out this slop dude is seriously just coping

[@Mekbuda]

Final Fantasy Tactics remake on current platforms ?

[@ShikinamiSoryu]

finally what i've been waiting for since final fantasy vii remake first trailer came out

[@thaneros]

Don't ever change Brian.

[@krazyroach2112]

Where is my ff16 pc. It’s been crickets lately

[@ggd210]

Didn’t watch a DailyFix since beautiful Yesica Chobot used to host it!!

[@hahahaha-qx9nj]

Did FF7 rebirth flop? Or did it just not do as well as expected (but still sold decently)?

[@ejacinto6120]

Im all for it, but the likelihood of PSN account requirements are high. This wont support so many countries as we’ve seen Helldivers 2

[@fenrirsfolly92]

They can’t it’s squares IPs so they make the decisions

[@infamousdb]

I'm hoping this means final fantasy remake on new switch yay🎉

[@Matteso586]

This probably could've been avoided if Square Enix had done a better job at advertising their games. That kind of mistake is what got Telltale shut down in the first place.

[@Acesinz]

Square soft should have remained

[@meherenow793]

ff7 trilogy on series x when?

[@itsdeonlol]

Of course... Square Enix is losing money. They should have done this long time ago...

[@zenicehero9154]

Great Final Fantasy games were allways been multiplatform ever since the fifth generation of consoles

[@videogameobsession]

3:30 Except for mobile devices. The bad economy is affecting "the big three". Nintendo isn't immune. They are just getting by without all of the layoffs (unless you could the 100+ people they laid off earlier this year), by releasing so many WiiU ports, Remakes, and remasters. (I.E.: Metroid Prime Remastered, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy, Pikmin 1, Pikmin 2, Luigi's Mansion 2, Paper Mario, etc..Those are almost always a safe bet.

[@richardtrainor3554]

Hi Brian 👋🏼

[@BrianAltano]

Yo!

[@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu]

Square enix rebirth

[@spongebobfan78]

"PS5 having no games" got so bad that "actually having games" does more harm to the industry.

[@Luigiplaya246]

More like you're part of the issue.

[@Luigiplaya246]

Also, You like your own comment

[@MarsWrestlingKingdom]

Finally after leaving other players in dark they decided to go multi-platform.

[@reythegreatone5577]

Square could actually stop overreaching itself as well. They are doing way too many projects simultaneously. Slow it down and get your pipeline right. Also actually market your games as well? Rebirth felt like it came out of nowhere.

[@SinfulSquirrel]

If just a few more go this route wouldnt need to be a reason for silly console war

[@rcash3625]

The only ones in a console war is sony.... Microsoft is trying to open up the xbox ecosystem

[@Mysterynovus]

Please no cloud versions on Switch

[@nateman79]

Stop telling companies how to make and censor their games

[@lumos_aeternum]

As a PlayStation primary player, wonderful! They make great games and it would be amazing for more to experience them at the same time we do.

[@Nighthunt01]

it's ridiculous for any 3rd party game publisher to make games exclusive to 1 place....1st party makes sense, but 3rd party should be everywhere it can

[@instantlife]

Hopefully lesson learned. Don't be exclusive to PS, don't be exclusive to XBox, don't be exclusive to Switch, and everyone wins.

[@lumos_aeternum]

And hopefully doing this successfully will just get them to make more amazing games and maybe bring some old ones back that were lost to older consoles (cough ps3 cough)

[@michaelludlow626]

​@@instantlifemaybe epic games and bungie should have stayed with Xbox, it just went downhill for bungie and epic games lowered the IQ of an entire generation and their dignity with fortnite afterwards

[@MrWearethechampion]

disney using ceast and desist its super effective

[@BrandyDerg]

It's not the 2000s anymore. Pursuing third party timed exclusivity deals doesn't work. It's always better to make money from more game sales than it is to make the same amount of money from an exclusivity payout as you want to grow mindshare as much as possible.

[@Luigiplaya246]

No wonder how you like your own comment.

[@shagaru1234]

Rebirth sold horribly even for a ps5 exclusive title so not surpising seeing square enix go multiplat

[@epsilon1670]

About time square enix sorts out their terrible exclusivity rubbish

[@MarsWrestlingKingdom]

Since making games takes more money and time everyone should go multi-platform ✌️

[@conkersquirrel8872]

So SquareEnix finally decided to make some money?? ☠️

[@videogameobsession]

Also, PS5 Pro... is still just a rumor.

[@GunV-qu2nm]

As an Xbox user. Keep Forspoken away

[@fenrirsfolly92]

Eh I’ll give it a go if it goes on a decent sale

[@crini413]

LOL took them long enough. Huge failure rate on ps5, games only come out on ps5, company wonders why no one buys it. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out my guy

[@jondeiconic2552]

True what you say.

[@Tinbeef22]

Lol not like xbox players buy games anyway.

[@Littahe]

And then they port the games to PC with stuttering performance issues and Epic games store exclusivity.

[@jimmymac2292]

​@Tinbeef22 my wallet wishes you were true

[@jaahman0098]

Such a idiotic comment this has nothing to do with PlayStation but yall still find a way

[@NineTnk]

Square realizing Sony is doing everything to abandon their own country and don't wanna be on the same ship. Now that Switch 2's power will be btw PS4 and PS4 Pro, they realized they finally got a chance on the Japanese market again.

[@zaqwe]

Facts

[@jaahman0098]

You don’t know what you’re talking about and it shows

[@ashokathegreat4534]

How and why is Sony abandoning Japan?

[@jaahman0098]

@@ashokathegreat4534 it’s not Sony abandoning Japan. It’s Japan being more handheld and mobile gaming ecosystem

[@TSMO915]

Bethesda invented Microtransactions

[@HumanB312]

No it was maple story

[@Joseperez_z_z]

Is this because the next Nintendo is going to be actually powerful enough to run better AAA titles???

[@Tayace1]

Sony PlayStation has only started to figure out in the last few years that the "war" they've been having with Xbox is not the war they thought it was. Xbox changed the parameters during the Xbox One and PS4 Era. They quickly discovered Xbox One was not able to match the PS4 in sales. So Microsoft Xbox changed their philosophy to be as inclusive as possible and release everything on PC as well as Xbox. PlayStation is playing catch up on that philosophy.

[@richardpauly1635]

If kingdom hearts 4 comes out they will do better since there with disney

[@Drilbit]

Hopefully this means we can get ff7r on switch 2 and xbox

[@knuclear200x]

Bought the wrong consoles, eh? My condolences

[@SaltyToad00]

​@@knuclear200x Says the PlayStation fanboy.

[@schwubmexx]

Switch is to weak and Xbox to dead. And Xbox people don't buy games anyway.

[@knuclear200x]

@SaltyToad00 yeah a Playstation fan boy has more games than you, because you have to wait

[@gabrielsantiago6656]

Sorry to ruin your parade, but it won’t happen. PlayStation locked the ff7 trilogy and SE said that the 3rd entry will be the last PlayStation exclusive. Who knows, maybe in a far away future they port then to other consoles, but for now it’s only a PlayStation exclusive

[@channelsold3236]

square square square onix!!!!!! (repeated voice over) 🎤 🎙 (())(

[@boneybon2677]

"company reboot" oh they are closing more studios dont they

[@mcbased675]

Their greed with splitting FFVll into 3 games was why they’re losing so much money. Fuckem tbh

[@GeorgeTyson-wu2zg]

If you have a PC windows 10 you should know forespoken is on windows 10 which is Xbox it just never went on Xbox one or Xbox series X

[@braskabani8011]

square can learn from capcom

[@videogameobsession]

By the time GTA VI comes out, RDR1 will be just an easter egg thrown into it.

[@michaelnelson7240]

Lost just cause mobile hope to not to lose just cause 5

[@knuclear200x]

Multiplat these days just means just get the PS version instead, or maybe XBox if that's what you chose

[@captaintalon4485]

“On an incomplete journey to profitability” should be my new quote in my socials lol

[@simonmaduxx6777]

PONYS ARE IN TEARS 😭😭😭😭😭

[@thenostalgiabusiness]

We’re rebooting companies now?

[@Ryansavagesstla]

Kingdom hearts 4 pc 🎉

[@JetBlack2024]

They games are decent but overhyped and people not even support them like they claim. And as always most of the games that get support are Fortnite, cod, sports games. A lot of people talk but not a lot mean what they say. Newer games in general take a while to take off. And when they do they slow down fast. Trendy want clout gamers.

[@EhCloserLook]

RDR1 is coming to PC NOW??? LOL!

[@grimey666]

no more shitty epic exclusivity pls

[@tonybone1889]

only couple exclusives for playstation has been spider man and helldivers so if wouldn't be anything exclusive wise if wasn't for square enix final fantasy games😢

[@mattspeer01]

Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo just need to work together to develop a super console that can play all their games. Share hardware costs, profit off whomever makes the best games for that hardware.

[@schwubmexx]

That would be terrible. Yes the Xbox is dead. But no Competition at all makes it worse. Wanna buy this combined Console for 1000 or more or what ? Cause that could happen if they do that

[@SaltyToad00]

Sony would never let that happen. They hate both Microsoft and Nintendo.

[@mattspeer01]

$500 consoles are insanely cheap right now considering how many years they have cost $500 compared to the inflation of everything else. $1000 for a console wouldn’t be unreasonable by today’s standards as long as it featured closer to mid-range PC specs rather than the low-end PC specs they generally launch with.

[@Mark-mu4pj]

​@SaltyToad00 You do know that Sony and Microsoft are industry friends?, Phil and Jim Ryan have been friends for 30 years, they don't hate each other (never have), the "console war" is a fanboy thing (not reality) in the industry, many devs have worked for both over the years and always hope each others games do well.

[@junlarue1]

Games like Forspoken broke the bank, not PS exclusives. That game would have sold miserably on every platform. LOL! What can they fit on a Nintendo Switch...FF7 menus...LOL! Where is Brave Fencer Musashi? The last one came out in 1998 and we've been begging for a new one. The negative side of multiplatform games is subpar development to make sure games can play 'well enough' on all platforms. Bummer!

[@GlowingF0ssil]

Just don't makes exclusive games for any console anymore. It's wasting time and money SE.

[@AvengingOttsel]

Rebirth was literally the game that was gonna get me to buy a PS5

[@mattmayz5978]

Sony can keep forspoken. Thanks but no thanks.

[@Acesinz]

Squaresoft should have remained

[@johnshea7871]

Blame The Spirits Within for that because it also caused Sakuguchi to resign and even though Final Fantasy 10 and Kingdom Hearts were massive hits they weren’t enough to save the company and they had to merge with Enix

[@touch9968]

1st

[@streetz7922]

We not fake caring about the layoffs they did today??

[@alsayedfakhri4597]

This is a joke. If you read their actual financials, revenue on their 'hd games' was actually up pretty significantly. When discussing multiplatform, they were talking about their non-mainstream and mobile games.

[@Avaliareborn]

Shocking that only selling to a third of your audience (likely less) isn’t profitable

[@ToxMod]

Was anyone triggered by this video?

[@rafaelpozo9962]

Can't wait to give mods to Tifa, aerith and yuffie 😈

[@kingkong-gn6oi]

Man of culture

[@just_a_turtIe_chad]

your left hand never saw a peach

[@just_a_turtIe_chad]

l00ser

[@_Ecchi-Koopa]

V1rgin 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@schwubmexx]

Show them later

[@suripto746]

Failstation got no games 😂

[@TheSuperRobotMama]

Neither does Xbox

[@dusermiginte4647]

​@@TheSuperRobotMamago and check the lineup for Xbox 2024.. 💪😃👍

[@VuNguyen-fv5jl]

Not surprised with FF7Rebirth, since the story was butchered with the Remake

[@jchen9534]

Forspoken for Xbox plz

[@KatIkafka]

My lonely left hand will be happy

[@leianigamez6326]

Hopefully the next part of FF7 Remake will be uncensored and has blood and gore.

[@Luigiplaya246]

No wonder how you like your own comment