FF7 Remake Trilogy Received’t Come To Xbox Or Nintendo Anytime Quickly

Up to date: 3/6/2024, 4:40 p.m. ET: Washington Submit 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 put in writing the sentence like that. The whole FFVII trilogy is NOT but confirmed to be Sony unique,” the Submit 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 can be referred to as to return to a non-PlayStation console. Robust luck: the primary two installments of the trilogy will stay PlayStation console exclusives.

In an interview with The Washington Submit, Sony Interactive Leisure’s vice chairman 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 growth on the challenge began. Svensson added that specializing in third-party content material is “ingrained in [PlayStation’s] DNA to at the present time” and connects to “how we’ve labored collectively on Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth.”

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

Producer Yoshinori Kitase additionally instructed the Submit that the staff behind Closing Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth may’ve needed to alter their imaginative and prescient for the challenge 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 might 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 technique to PC in 2021. Rebirth is anticipated to do the identical sooner or later sooner or later, although the timeline for PlayStation’s PC ports is mostly a yr or extra after the console launch. However in the event 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 longer term may maintain? We’d all be enjoying the final installment of the trilogy in Nintendo’s holo-dome.