It sounds like Final Fantasy 16 and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth really didn’t work out Square Enix has revealed a new business plan — titled “Square Enix Reboots, and Awakens” — that will see the publisher “aggressively pursue” a multiplatform strategy for its biggest games across Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation, and Windows PC.
While Square Enix has long been active across a wide range of platforms, it has a tradition of signing exclusivity deals for its biggest releases, typically with Sony. This year’s Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and last year’s Final Fantasy 16 are currently exclusive to PlayStation 5, while games like Forspoken and the original Final Fantasy 7 Remake have been released across PlayStation and PC.
Of course, Square Enix is not the only company wondering if platform exclusivity can work at all at scale anymore.
Square Enix said it had canceled several games that did not fit its new strategy.