Square Enix plans to emphasize “quality over quantity” for its games business, and it has come up with a new strategy to help it realize these goals. The company has now revealed more details on its “Square Enix Reboots and Awakens” medium-term plan that will unfold over the next three years.
According to Square Enix, it plans to adopt a multiplatform approach for its games, leading to “major” titles being released on a consistent basis starting March 2027. All of its game titles will be placed “under the management of the same studio,” and this will allow all of its in-house knowledge to be “consolidated, accumulated, and shared,” Square Enix added. This new approach has also resulted in several in-development games being canceled, as Square Enix decided to focus its resources on funding other projects instead.
“Under the new management structure, we reviewed all projects at our domestic studios, including HDG and SD titles, and decided to discontinue development of some titles and invest additional funds in titles that require refinement, thereby steadily implementing a strategy of selecting and concentrating development resources,” Square Enix explained in an update for its investors. “We will continue to control the scale of development investment in a disciplined manner.”
The new multiplatform approach is already active, as Square Enix recently announced that the entire Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy will be coming to Nintendo’s Switch 2 console. Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade will be a launch game for the console alongside Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster, but a release date for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth hasn’t been revealed yet.
Final Fantasy 14 also arrived on Xbox consoles last year, and Square Enix is looking to bring more games to the Microsoft platform in the future.