Square Enix plans to make its new games available for both current and next-gen consoles

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Square Enix plans to make its upcoming games cross-generational

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Square Enix has shared its plans to make all of its upcoming new games compatible for both current and next-gen consoles. 

In an outline of financial results held on February 5, 2020, president and representative director Yosuke Matsuda responded to a question relating to the development of new titles for current and next-generation game consoles going forward. 

Matsuda said, "The next-generation consoles will have backward compatibility, so we plan for the time being to make our new titles available for both current and next-generation consoles. It will therefore be somewhat farther down the road that we release titles exclusively for the next-generation consoles." 

In a recent post on Xbox Wire from head of Xbox's Phil Spencer, we got confirmation that the Xbox Series X will give you the ability to play four generations of Xbox games, with compatibility for Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One, along with the next-gen. 

With plenty of exciting Square Enix games on the horizon such as Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Marvel's Avengers, and Outriders, it's great to see the studio plans to make its upcoming titles compatible on as many consoles as possible. 

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Heather Wald
Heather Wald
Evergreen Editor, Games

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