Gaming News “I like Xbox” The director of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth also thinks the video game industry needs to change!
More and more gamers are rebelling against exclusive contracts, a common practice that allows a manufacturer to agree to the exclusive publication of a work on its console. It seems that changes in the industry are helping them…
Like a marriage contract
The video game industry has long operated with exclusive contracts. As the name suggests, These contracts grant manufacturers exclusive distribution of a work on their consolethereby preventing any publication on a competing platform. While these contracts are increasingly temporary, unlike contracts with an indefinite duration, players express their dissatisfaction whenever a publisher has the misfortune to announce the release of one of their productions, especially on a console.
Recently, Games Radar a Pu interviewer Naoki HamaguchiDirector of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and reports rather reassuring words from the Japanese developer on this topic.
Pour Final Fantasy VIII can't say anything right now, but I really want to talk about it Final Fantasy VII and be New edition as many players as possible. So we want to create an environment where more players can play our games in the future. That's the direction we want to go.
Towards the end of exclusivity
In fact, Square Enix has previously stated its desire to limit the number of its games under exclusive contracts. An explanation came particularly afterwards Final Fantasy XVI failed to meet the Japanese publisher's sales targets on the PS5.
There is a real change in the industry and I think we are feeling that change. […]
It's much more diverse today, I think that's why our CEO, Mr [Takashi] Kiryu has made the decision to move towards multiplatform – that is the direction the industry is moving. This is just a personal opinion at the moment, but I own an Xbox and think it's a great platform. I like Xbox.
The Japanese publisher has favored a multiplatform approach in recent yearssociable Nier automata its exclusivity, publication Final Fantasy XVI on PC a year after its exclusive release on PS5 as well as the first Octopathic travelerinitially exclusively for Switch, on almost all available platforms. Since Xbox also decides to reduce the level of exclusivity As more and more of his productions are released on competing platforms, there is evidence that exclusive contracts are becoming increasingly rare as the years go by.
