Ultimate Fantasy 14 Director Needs to Get the Pixel Remasters Working Contained in the MMO

The current releases of the Ultimate Fantasy Pixel Remasters have finally given a brand new viewers the chance to play the unique six Ultimate Fantasy video games on fashionable consoles. However whereas the video games are at the moment out there on PlayStation and Nintendo Change, Sq. Enix would actually like to get them engaged on a 3rd platform, and no, I am not speaking concerning the Xbox. I am speaking about Ultimate Fantasy 14.

Talking at a press convention at Ultimate Fantasy Fan Fest 2023, director and producer Naoki Yoshida (often known as Yoshi-P) stated that he is been for a while within the concept of FF14 gamers with the ability to play the Pixel Remasters both by way of the Gold Saucer amusement park in sport, or by way of participant housing.

Nevertheless, the function has confirmed extraordinarily difficult to implement, because of the Pixel Remasters already operating on “middleware,” successfully a software program program intermediary that lets an working system do one thing it is not usually in a position to do.

“So as a result of it is operating on a middleware, if you wish to implement that into 14, you’d need to construct one other system that may play again the middleware inside the sport,” Yoshi-P stated, in accordance with a quote picked up by Gamesradar. “So it is such as you’re constructing a system of a sport to play a system of a sport and it is simply this bizarre configuration.”

That stated, Yoshi-P remains to be very within the concept, and put out the decision for a “tremendous programmer” to step up and assist Sq. Enix out.

Funnily sufficient, if Sq. Enix ever did get this function working, it will truly equate to a launch of the Pixel Remasters on Xbox provided that FF14 was introduced for Xbox at Fan Fest this previous weekend, and is deliberate for launch in spring of subsequent yr after an open beta interval.

Fan Fest 2023 was a busy one, with loads of bulletins together with the brand new Dawntrail enlargement, a tease of future Sq. Enix x Xbox collaborations to return, a mysterious T-shirt, and an unlucky rebuke of Blitzball followers.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Bought a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.