Threadmarks Square confirms the game missed the higher end of their sales expectations, cites PS5 install base as limiting factor
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Square Enix Holdings Co. shares suffered their worst intraday drop in almost three years, erasing a little over a year’s worth of gains, after the company reported a 79% decline in operating profit.
Hopes that Final Fantasy XVI would boost sales were dashed by the company’s downbeat earnings report Friday, driving the stock down as much as 15% in Tokyo on Monday.
Sales of the latest installment of the long-running role-playing title did not meet the high end of the company’s expectations, Square Enix President Takashi Kiryu told analysts on a post-earnings call Friday, according to three people who attended.
Slow adoption of Sony Group Corp.’s PlayStation 5 was a limiting factor, Kiryu reportedly said.