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Xbox’s core gaming offering. It’s a question of and a problem with Japan. And nowhere is it better exemplified than in Square Enix.
Square Enix has just announced that Live A Live, the previously Switch-exclusive remake of a stone cold 16-bit classic, is coming to other consoles. What’s it coming to? PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Steam. That’s it. Sorry, Xbox owners. But then it gets weird. Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line, a relatively low-impact rhythm game, was only on PlayStation and Switch. Theatrhythm will likely come to PC later – I’d happily bet that Square Enix was worried about piracy and modding of a rhythm game when there’s DLC still to land, and so pushed PC out. But it probably won’t come to Xbox.
The most bizarre example is Octopath Traveler 2, of course. It was on everything – PC, Switch, PS4, PS5 – but no Xbox. This is even more bizarre because the first Octopath Traveler was on Xbox, but not PlayStation. I feel like I’m about to go cross-eyed.
This ain’t new, either. Star Ocean: The Divine Force, The Diofield Chronicle, Stranger of Paradise, Chrono Cross, and Crisis Core Reunion all came to Xbox last year, but the list of things that hit almost everything else but skipped Xbox is far longer. Discounting true exclusives last year Xbox missed out on Romancing SaGa, Tactics Ogre Reborn, Valkyrie Elysium, Voice of Cards, The Centennial Case and even bloody Babylon’s Fall. Quite a few of these games struggled despite being brilliant, too. One would think being on more platforms would’ve helped.
This is a pattern. Depending on how you want to count it, Square Enix has almost or well in excess of 10 announced releases for this year – and not one of them has or is set to be published on Xbox.