Sony: Final Fantasy VII Remake Trilogy is a PlayStation Console Exclusive - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 06 March 2024 / 5,475 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment has secured the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy as a PlayStation console exclusive, according to a report from The Washington Post.
"Securing the Final Fantasy VII trilogy as a console exclusive is a feather in the PlayStation cap," reads the report.
Sony Interactive Entertainment vice president of second and third-party content ventures and strategic initiatives Christian Svensson said making the trilogy a PlayStation console exclusive was mutually desired between Sony and Square Enix.
"Back in that same console generation for the original PlayStation, Sony Computer Entertainment had few franchises of its own, and in order to find its place in a very competitive video game industry, we sought to win the hearts and minds of key third-party developers like Square," said Svensson.
He added, "Final Fantasy has always been one of the primary franchise pillars on PlayStation consoles." Also stating [Square Enix is "one of the best in the business at pushing beyond their fans' lofty expectations and showing off what can be done with PlayStation hardware."
Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy producer Yoshinori Kitase in the same interview discussed the benefits of developing for a single platform.
"Had it not been on a single platform, the world map would not be seamless, and game design may have had to regress significantly," said Kitase.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi added, "I definitely want to address the same for what is likely expected from our experience with the Highwind to explore the world."
Final Fantasy VII Remake released for the PlayStation 4 in April 2020, followed by the Intergrade version for the PlayStation 5 in June 2021 and for PC in December 2021. The second part of the trilogy, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, released for the PlayStation 5 on February 29.
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I wonder why they bothered wasting money securing this as I don’t think it would have made any difference if it came to Xbox as am sure the last sales of FF games didn’t really sell much on Xbox anyways so kinda seems like a waste of money
i 100% agree
It is indeed a weird effort just to boost PlayStation's ego.
The games should be on Xbox, and Remake (aka the first part) will probably be fine to run on Switch 2 if it was allowed on there.
Third-party exclusives and console exclusives just need to die out already, especially if they're not using a specific controller or hardware feature.
Problem is the Xbox fanbase hasn't shown the same interest (in the UK alone, the PS4 version of XV sold 79% vs Xbox One's 21% in the first week — and that was despite Microsoft's marketing partnership with Squeenix there). Eventually, it makes less sense to bother with a platform who's users buy less games and even LESS games (percentage wise) from a particular franchise.
The answer is Advertising. Basically you can imagine that Sony probably paid more for advertising than Square could have made on Xbox realistically. From this point of view the deL is advantageous to them and its really not that mysterious. I would still expect a PC release tho.
Exclusives are important. Also, the Series S is so bottlenecked and weak that the design of the game would have had to been compromised from the start of development. It has only 8gb's of Ram and my 5 year old tablet has 8gb's of Ram
Nice
Honestly not surprising. FF7 was a landmark and defining title for the PS1. Makes sense why Sony would want to keep the remake trilogy synonymous with PlayStation. Even if PC is the silver lining lol. Which also happened with the original game.
Can we expect that they have the sales data for the first week and that based on the first week sales they are content to keep the series on Playstation?
At least for that first week the price per unit is high.
In the end it doesn't matter if you sell 10 million averaging at an average pricepoint of 30 dollar or 5 million at a pricepoint of 60 dollar. Perhaps the latter is even more preferable, because shipping costs money.
The question is whether Square makes money if the game sells 7 million at an average price of dat 50 dollar per unit. Of which 15 goes to PS/Steam. Which leaves Square with 245 million to cover all the costs, including making the game, marketing the game, support and marketing after launch. I can kind of see why they need the Sony money.
I hope third part comes out on PS5 still.
Always curious the affect gamepass has on stuff like this. I've seen so many comments across the internet about the first FF7 remake game "It will be on game pass day 1" etc.
How well will the game sale on xbox? How much to put it on game pass? Will people just wait for it to be on game pass?
There's a reason persona 3 is on game pass.
Wowowow lotsa money Sony!
There goes the rumors/hopes of a Switch 2 port of Remake early on. I'm pretty sure the remake trilogy will come to other consoles one day, but it probably wouldn't be until the 2030s. Part 3 will probably come out 2027 at the earliest and 2029 at the latest.
