Nextgen will wait – Square Enix will not give up support for PS4 and Xbox One immediately after the release of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X

Company Square enix reported that it does not plan to fully focus on Playstation 5 and Xbox Series Xrefusing further support Playstation 4 and Xbox one. Her first games, exclusively for the new generation of iron, will not appear in the foreseeable future. They will have to wait a long time.

Many game companies have always continued to support the old hardware even with the advent of the new one, releasing cross-gen games, however, the difference between the upcoming transition to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and the transition in 2013 to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One is that the new consoles will be fully compatible with the previous ones from the date of their sale, Square Enix said at a meeting with investors. Thanks to the architecture of modern devices and the flexibility of engines, many games can be quickly adapted to more systems than before.

Earlier this was said by the president of Ubisoft, which plans to continue supporting many of its titles on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. As a result, the last few years will not lose relevance, I am sure Yves Guillot. And when players want to switch to a new hardware, they can easily transfer all their progress there and quickly upgrade to the current graphic versions.

“Next-generation consoles will be backward compatible, so for now we plan to release our new projects on both old and new systems right away. It will be quite a while before we start releasing games exclusively for next-generation consoles,” Square Enix explained.

The company did not specify the approximate dates for a full transition to nekstgen. This fall she will release a shooter Outriders from studio People can fly on five systems at once – PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and PC.

Formerly corporation Microsoft announced that after the release of Xbox Series X will release all its games on the old console for at least another two years – they will be released simultaneously on the entire family of Xbox One, Xbox Series X and PC.

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