Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth profits ‘did not meet expectations’ admits Square Enix

Both Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 person fallen abbreviated of income expectations, arsenic Square Enix moves toward multi-platform releases.

While aboriginal income indicated Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 had some seen a dip successful sales compared to their respective predecessors, developer Square Enix has present officially described them arsenic a disappointment.

Square Enix really made the comments during a fiscal briefing successful May, but they person lone been made nationalist now.

Speaking astatine the briefing, Square Enix president Takashi Kiryu said: ‘In the HD Games sub-segment, we released aggregate caller titles, including large titles specified arsenic Final Fantasy 16 and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, but profits unluckily did not conscionable our expectations.’

He further went onto describe Foamstars successful akin terms, adding: ‘Despite the merchandise of Foamstars and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth successful Q4, archetypal income were not arsenic beardown arsenic expected.’

It’s important to enactment that successful May, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth had lone been connected the marketplace for astir 2 months, pursuing its motorboat successful precocious February. At the aforesaid briefing, Square Enix outlined however it intends to adopt a multi-platform strategy moving forward.

This determination is astir apt successful effect to these little than expected sales. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth launched arsenic a PlayStation 5 exclusive but it’s expected to travel to PC astatine a aboriginal date, successful the aforesaid vein arsenic its predecessor Final Fantasy 7 Remake.

Final Fantasy 16, meanwhile, launched exclusively connected PlayStation 5 successful June past twelvemonth and came retired connected PC this week, truthful it’s imaginable that its numbers could summation importantly successful the coming months. It’s wide though that Square Enix astir apt won’t motorboat immoderate aboriginal Final Fantasy games connected conscionable 1 level successful the future.

While this connection does mean Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 person underperformed for Square Enix, it’s inactive hard to gauge by however much, considering the institution is known for its… *ambitious* income expectations. Rebirth was the fourth best-selling crippled of the year successful the US, successful May, but its income were down Remake.

Earlier this year, Square Enix mislaid £112 million aft cancelling a wealthiness of projects, arsenic the workplace becomes much ‘selective’ successful the games it takes connected – but it’s unclear whether this volition interaction its little fund games oregon AAA output.

The company’s caller way grounds with large fund games hasn’t been large successful presumption of sales, with some Avengers and Forspoken being fiscal flops.

Through each the fiscal turmoil, Square Enix is inactive trying to marque a occurrence of Foamstars, with the multiplayer shooter acceptable to spell free-to-play from October 4.

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