Final Fantasy XVI’s Latest Patch Doesn’t Fix PS5 Crash Issue
Square Enix has pushed a new update out for Final Fantasy XVI. It addresses one issue fans have had with it since its launch, but it doesn’t seem to be dealing with another one that seems to be more serious.
As revealed by Square Enix on the official updates page, patch 1.03 comes with these changes:
The big issue fans had that was addressed with this update was the motion blur. Regardless if Square Enix had an artistic effect in mind when they added this to the game, motion blur can be unpopular with gamers. It should also be worth considering that it can be a potential disability or impairment issue, similar to that some experience when they see flashing lights.
So it’s generally a good thing that Square Enix addressed this issue. But why are they not fixing or even acknowledging the overheating and crashing issue?As we reported a few days ago, Square Enix and Sony have remained mum on what is now clearly a real issue with Final Fantasy XVI causing consoles to overheat and crash.
Their failure to address the issue is actively harming their own consumers, who are playing one of the highest selling titles on the PlayStation 5, and unaware that they stand a risk to making their consoles malfunction. That could lower the lifetime for those consoles as well, but this is all unnecessary.
It’s not clear why Sony and Square Enix alike are still not talking about this issue, but if they think they can get away with silence, that’s just going to leave their own consumers to deal with broken consoles on their own.
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