Sony Has The Closing Fantasy 7 Remake Trilogy On Lock [Update: Or Not!]

Up to date: 3/6/2024, 4:40 p.m. ET: Washington Put up reporter Gene Park has amended his interview with FF7 Rebirth producer Yoshinori Kitase to state that solely the primary two video games within the trilogy are confirmed to be PlayStation console exclusives. “It was a mistake on my half to jot down the sentence like that. All the FFVII trilogy is NOT but confirmed to be Sony unique,” the Put up journalist wrote on Twitter.

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I hope you weren’t holding your breath for Closing Fantasy VII Remake, Rebirth, and regardless of the threequel will probably be known as to return to a non-PlayStation console. Powerful luck: the primary two installments of the trilogy will stay PlayStation console exclusives.

In an interview with The Washington Put up, Sony Interactive Leisure’s vp of second- and third-party content material ventures and strategic initiatives, Christian Svensson, mentioned that S&S—Sony and Sq.—agreed to make the Remake trilogy of Closing Fantasy VII a console unique when improvement on the venture began. Svensson added that specializing in third-party content material is “ingrained in [PlayStation’s] DNA to today” and connects to “how we’ve labored collectively on Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth.”

“Closing Fantasy has at all times been one of many major franchise pillars on PlayStation consoles. [Square Enix is] top-of-the-line within the enterprise at pushing past their followers’ lofty expectations and displaying off what will be completed with PlayStation {hardware},” Svensson added.

Producer Yoshinori Kitase additionally advised the Put up that the workforce behind Closing Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth may’ve needed to alter their imaginative and prescient for the venture to construct variations for different consoles.

“Had [FF7 Rebirth] not been on a single platform, the world map wouldn’t be seamless, and sport design could have needed to regress considerably,” Kitase mentioned.

Kotaku has reached out to Sony and Sq. Enix for remark.

Remake dropped on PS4 in March 2020 and made its method to PC in 2021. Rebirth is predicted to do the identical sooner or later sooner or later, although the timeline for PlayStation’s PC ports is usually a 12 months or extra after the console launch. However when you had been hoping to take a look at Rebirth on Sport Go or Change 2 sooner or later down the road, it’s not gonna occur anytime quickly. Sorry, Microsoft and Nintendo followers, them’s the breaks. From there, who is aware of what the long run may maintain? We’d all be enjoying the final installment of the trilogy in Nintendo’s holo-dome.