Relations between Xbox and Square Enix haven't always been the warmest over the past ten years, but a lot has changed in the past year. The change in the publisher's distribution strategy is a real boon for Xbox, and the famous Naoki Yoshida has just given excellent news for players and Square Enix games in general.
Square Enix warms up its relationship with Xbox
Square Enix has long been a strong ally for PlayStation, with many games released exclusively on PS4 or PS5. Xbox suffered from this for a long time, and in particular to break through in Japan, but that time now seems to be over.
We can date Square Enix's paradigm shift to the summer of 2023 when Xbox boss Phil Spencer appeared on the stage of an event dedicated to Final Fantasy to confirm the arrival of Final Fantasy XIV Online on Xbox .
It could only be seen as an announcement effect, but this very symbolic appearance would nevertheless seal a relationship that was there to last. Takashi Kiryu, CEO of Square Enix, thanked Phil Spencer for his work on this collaboration, before confirming his intention to “welcome the Xbox community” to other games “whenever possible.” »
The release of Square Enix games on all platforms simultaneously is coming!
Although things take time, Square Enix had confirmed in spring 2024 a change in strategy which aimed to “move to a multi-platform strategy” by “actively pursuing a multi-platform strategy including the Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox and PC platforms”.
But in a final interview with 4Gamer, Square Enix came to bring very good news for players, clarifying an important point of its new strategy. It was Final Fantasy producer Naoki Yoshida, better known as Yoshi-P, who raised the subject on the occasion of the upcoming release of FANTASIAN Neo Dimension on all consoles.
Of course, we want you to play it on other platforms as well. This time we will also release the Xbox Series X|S version at the same time. In the future, Square Enix games will be released more and more often simultaneously on each platform, but since we are close to the first release, we would like Xbox users to play them too.
We apologize for the problems we caused with Mistwalkers, but the fact that it was released simultaneously on so many platforms generated widespread excitement, so we are grateful to you for doing a good job.
It is therefore written in black and white, the next Square Enix games are intended to be released at the same time on PlayStation and Xbox, it will in any case be something more and more frequent. Naoki Yoshida had also declared during the summer of 2024 that Square Enix wanted to “deepen the relationship with Xbox players”. It’s time for all of this to fall into place.
