It’s never a good thing when one of the major video game companies in the industry struggles. A single bad game launch can be bad, but when several bad moves are made over several years, a huge shift is required to put things back on track. For Square Enix, multiple bad decisions and lackluster sales of key AAA titles led to the company announcing both major layoffs and a “restructuring” of the company as a whole. To that end, the company revealed its three-year “reboot” plan, and as teased previously, it does focus on multiplatform releases:
Square Enix announced a 3 year "reboot" plan with a focus on multiplatform development.
– shifting from quantity to quality
– games managed under a single umbrellaSwitch 2 is important to their strategy. pic.twitter.com/GudDnA6mEd
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There’s plenty to unpack here, including the vagueness of some of the reveals, while also teasing things like the Final Fantasy VII Remake port coming to the Nintendo Switch 2. It’s fair to say that the Switch has been great for Square Enix over the last eight years, so it’s not surprising they might want to lean on Nintendo with the highly anticipated Switch 2 less than a month away.
While the “quality over quantity” line is something that many struggling developers have said recently, only the future knows for sure if that promise will come to fruition, and if the sales follow.
