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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says Xbox is ‘great’, wants to see the trilogy on more platforms

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“I want to bring the Remake series to as many players out there as possible”…
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director is an Xbox fan, and with Square Enix testing the multiplatform waters, he says he wants to being the JRPG to "as many players out there as possible"

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The director of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has said he wants to see the Remake trilogy appearing on more platforms, while at the same time praising the Xbox platform.

Naoki Hamaguchi – who was the co-director of Final Fantasy 7 Remake and the director of Rebirth – was recently asked by GamesRadar how he felt about the game being released on other platforms.

Hamaguchi replied that while there were no announcements to make yet, he wanted to see the Remake games appearing on more systems.

“In terms of Final Fantasy 7, there’s nothing really we can say at the moment, but certainly I do want to bring Final Fantasy 7 and the Remake series to as many players out there as possible,” Hamaguchi explained.

“So we want to create that situation, that environment, where more players can play the games in future, and we want to look in that direction.”

Hamaguchi also said that while it used to be possible to release a game on a single platform and have players buy that system to play it, that’s less the case these days.

Explaining that while in the past publishers could “put out a game in one place and get most of the players coming to that game to play it [on that platform]”, he said: “It’s so much more diversified now, so I think that’s that’s probably why our CEO, Mr Kiryu, made that decision to move more in the direction of multiplatform. That’s just the way that the industry is going.”
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is one of several recent PS5 exclusives that have failed to meet Square Enix’s sales expectations, leading the publisher to announce plans to “shift to a multiplatform strategy”.

Although he didn’t specifically mention Xbox when saying he wanted to see the Final Fantasy 7 Remake series on other platforms, Hamaguchi was then asked for his opinion on Square Enix’s multiformat strategy, to which he praised the Xbox platform.

“This is just a personal opinion now, but I’ve got an Xbox myself,” he replied. “I think it’s a great hardware platform. I do like Xbox.”
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Last month Final Fantasy producer Naoki Yoshida said that he’d like to release Final Fantasy 16 on Xbox platforms.

“Of course we did announce the PC version of the game, so looking towards the Xbox version, we do want to release it on Xbox,” he said in an interview. “But when it comes to the specifics such as when the game would be available and such, we are not in a position to be able to share anything.”

Earlier this month, Yoshida then stated that Square Enix plans to release games simultaneously on Xbox “more and more” going forward.
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StereoVsn

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I mean why not. The porting costs can’t be that expensive and you do have an audience of 20-30 million to sell to.

Edit: Series S for 2nd and 3rd game would be interesting but people run Rebirth on a Steam Deck. XSS is quite a bit more powerful than that. Well, except for RAM….
 
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StereoVsn said:
I mean why not. The porting costs can’t be that expensive and you do have an audience of 20-30 million to sell to.

Edit: Series S for 2nd and 3rd game would be interesting but people run Rebirth on a Steam Deck. XSS is quite a bit more powerful than that. Well, except for RAM….
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PC? Could be yeah.
Xbox? What it could sell? Xbox is selling poorly and there MS only care about gamepass. So it will not sell anything. Only benefit is MS paying square to put the game on gamepass.
 
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I don't think releasing the game later is going to help much in sales as seen from the pc version of ff16. Xbox will see even lesser sales if they were to release it down the line. It has to be a day and date release. Fans of the game, knowing that it was a console-exclusive to ps5, would have already gotten the game on it. All that's left are the casuals that don't seem to care much of the series.
 
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coachmcguirk91

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I don't believe the director has any input on where the games go. It seems pretty clear Sony has a contract of exclusivity with the FF7 remakes. I'm guessing the exclusivity period ends after part 3 is released.

Square Enix would be putting all their games everywhere day1 if they could, but they decided to take Sony's money bag years ago. Reap what you sow
 
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GHG said:
"Although he didn’t specifically mention Xbox when saying he wanted to see the Final Fantasy 7 Remake series on other platforms"

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(And continue with)...... Hamaguchi was then asked for his opinion on Square Enix’s multiformat strategy, to which he praised the Xbox platform.

“This is just a personal opinion now, but I’ve got an Xbox myself,” he replied. “I think it’s a great hardware platform. I do like Xbox.”

🤷🏻

Imagine an interview where every question is about Xbox and a distinction is made directly to Xbox... and pretend to believe that he is referring to every platform except XBOX 🤷🏻🤷🏻

It is clear that with the delay in the release and the commercial success of both games that has left much to be desired... the success on other platforms does not look good and it would be more of a necessary first step.

MS surely wants to have the complete series in the catalog of its platform in the future (subscriptions, streaming, devices, playanywhere...) beyond what an XSeries version could sell or what it could generate in a possible arrival on Gamepass.
 
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StereoVsn

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On the PC side SE made a blunder with this series. Because when they finally release Rebirth for $70 or whatnot at some point next year, sales won’t be amazing.

Since they weren’t amazing for the first game due to that lag. It’s a really really dumb move on their part.
 
mèx

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I'm actually glad that the exclusivity deals came back to bite them in the ass. Both for FF7R and FFXVI. Times have changed.

Sometimes you have to learn the hard way.
 
Jaybe

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FF16 is coming to Xbox. FF7 remakes aren’t. This is why they are talked about differently. We already had rumours of permanent exclusivity for the FF7 remakes, but none of that talk for FF16.
 
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Darsxx82 said:
(And continue with)...... Hamaguchi was then asked for his opinion on Square Enix’s multiformat strategy, to which he praised the Xbox platform.

“This is just a personal opinion now, but I’ve got an Xbox myself,” he replied. “I think it’s a great hardware platform. I do like Xbox.”

🤷🏻

Imagine an interview where every question is about Xbox and a distinction is made directly to Xbox... and pretend to believe that he is referring to every platform except XBOX 🤷🏻🤷🏻

It is clear that with the delay in the release and the commercial success of both games that has left much to be desired... the success on other platforms does not look good and it would be more of a necessary first step.

MS surely wants to have the complete series in the catalog of its platform in the future (subscriptions, streaming, devices, playanywhere...) beyond what an XSeries version could sell or what it could generate in a possible arrival on Gamepass.
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Punished Miku

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I'm not crazy about remakes, but I'd pick these up at some point. Certainly more interested in these than FFXVI, which I already did play and found to be a big disappointment.

Since SQEX started their porting initiative, I purchased Octopath 1, 2, Fantasian, Legend of Mana, FF 1-6, and they got rental money from me for Legend of Mana, Trials of Mana. I'll pick up DQ3 eventually after it's on sale. Not bad for 3 months of simple ports.
 
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StereoVsn said:
On the PC side SE made a blunder with this series. Because when they finally release Rebirth for $70 or whatnot at some point next year, sales won’t be amazing.

Since they weren’t amazing for the first game due to that lag. It’s a really really dumb move on their part.
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Square should learn from how Kojima Productions has handled the launch of Death Stranding on XBOX.

Releasing it with a 50% discount and without the need for marketing expenses, since the announcement alone created the necessary expectation and impact... Result? DS has been in the Top 2-3 of sales in the XboxStore in all countries for 1 month.
 
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coachmcguirk91 said:
I don't believe the director has any input on where the games go. It seems pretty clear Sony has a contract of exclusivity with the FF7 remakes. I'm guessing the exclusivity period ends after part 3 is released.

Square Enix would be putting all their games everywhere day1 if they could, but they decided to take Sony's money bag years ago. Reap what you sow
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Rebirth's exclusivity was only 3 months. When they signed the contract, I bet it was timed for when they thought the Switch 2 would launch.
 
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In the real world actions speak more than PR words.
Where is the FFXVI Xbox announcement many were expecting to be made at TGS?
Where is the PC/Xbox version of FF7 Rebirth they were contractually free to release since last May? 🫣
If the team is fully absorbed into development of part 3, is there someone who actually gives a fuck within the company?
 
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ArtHands

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ShaiKhulud1989 said:
Point me where in this news he talks about FF7 Remake on Xbox. Not his personal thoughts about Xbox and 'I want to see the game on more [unnamed] platforms'.

This is a pure clickbait.
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Like I said, the quotes in the link are all from Square Enix themselves.
 
ShaiKhulud1989

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ArtHands said:
Like I said, the quotes in the link are all from Square Enix themselves.
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So you don't have a direct quote that says that he's talking specifically about FF7R on Xbox.

I love how you built all this narratives to be dissapointed later. With the speed of Xbox HW sales collapsing there will be no traditional Xbox console by the time they'll finish with the trilogy.
 
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scydrex said:
PC? Could be yeah.
Xbox? What it could sell? Xbox is selling poorly and there MS only care about gamepass. So it will not sell a anything. Only benefit is MS paying square to put the game on gamepass.
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Uh......30 million more potential purchases. Even just a million in sales would be a win for Square
 
Go_Ly_Dow

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Jaybe said:
FF16 is coming to Xbox. FF7 remakes aren’t. This is why they are talked about differently. We already had rumours of permanent exclusivity for the FF7 remakes, but none of that talk for FF16.
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I think this will be the case.

All the 7 games need are PS5 + PC, Switch 2 and eventually a big trilogy port to PS6 in one package.
 
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