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Square Enix honcho Yoshi-P pledges more simultaneous releases as the company realises people don't like waiting years for its games

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I could have told them that.
It’s the year 2024 and some games companies are still a bit weird about release dates. Rockstar hung about for a year after putting out Red Dead Redemption 1 on Switch and PS4 before remembering to put it on PC (and who knows what it’s gonna do with GTA 6), and Square Enix kept dancing around the Final Fantasy 16 PC port we all knew was coming while it was still in its year-long ‘only on PS5’ phase.
The good news is we might have to put up with a bit less of that from the second of those two corporations in the near future (Rockstar is beyond help). In a chat with 4gamer, FF14 director and the most tired man in Monster Hunter Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida said (all following quotes are machine-translated): “In the future, Square Enix titles will be released simultaneously on each platform more and more.

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