Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Director: 'I Do Like Xbox' and Wants to the Remake Series on More Platforms - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 December 2024 / 2,183 Views
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi in an interview with GamesRadar said he wants to bring the Final Fantasy VII remake series to more platforms.
"In terms of Final Fantasy VII, there's nothing really we can say at the moment, but certainly I do want to bring Final Fantasy VII and the Remake series to as many players out there as possible," he said. "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."
He added," I think this goes beyond Final Fantasy VII. It really is a change in the industry, and I think certainly we're feeling right now that the industry has changed in terms of there being so many different platforms and environments that people play games on these days."
Hamaguchi said back in the day 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]. It's so much more diversified now, so I think that's that's probably why our CEO, Mr. [Takashi] Kiryu, made that decision to move more in the direction of multiplatform – that's just the way that the industry is going."
Hamaguchi revealed he how owns Xbox and says it is a "great platform."
"This is just a personal opinion now, but I've got an Xbox myself," he said. "I think it's a great hardware platform. I do like Xbox."
Square Enix recently released the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series on the Xox Series X|S and Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida has stated the company wants to release the JRPG on the Xbox.
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Xbox numbers won't even help sales numbers,
It's ur fault for chopping it up to 3 parts,
Straight to game pass just to recoup some money loss lol
It's unfortunate the exclusivity deal was probably 12 months as a PC version here for the GotY season would probably have done quite well (even if I expect Astro Bot to win the most).
Officially, Rebirth only had a 3 month exclusivity window lol. I'm guessing SE only started developing the PC version after the 3 months.
Yikes, that seems a bit off considering how long they've been talking this "we're switching to multiplat guys, don't worry", but maybe it really was only after Rebirth's release that they started thinking like that.
Did FFVIIRebirth fail to even hit 1mil sales or smth? How bad could the game have possibly done to warrant SquEnix to stab and completely turn their back against Sony? Their rhetoric has been extremely aggressive recently.
Square has always had unreasonable sale expectations. They won't flop on Xbox, but Square will ultimately will insulted by the sales there as well.
16 hasn't reached 5 million and rebirth probably around 3 which isn't that good for a new game
Same thing that the likes of Capcom and Sega have been able to realize. Multiplatform is the way to go and it's paying off for them big time. It's also due to SE's new CEO favoring multiplatform. It's not just Xbox though. FF14 is even coming to mobile lol. I'm sure they can't wait for the Switch 2 to release as well.
But Sony doesn't own Square Enix. They're not under some form of indentured servitude to Sony. The CEO of Square Enix serves the company's shareholders and makes decisions on what will make Square Enix the most money. Exclusivity doesn't make the most money. Especially for third parties and AAA games where development costs have been skyrocketing.
Are you sure it isn't Sony stabbing tho? Anyway I expect sales expectations were also not met for Sony and they are not that willing to spend money/Invest into SE anymore. It is better that way just release everything on anything.
That's true Square was putting more game on Xbox when Microsoft was cutting checks for their games on gamepass. It seemed at least to me, that Microsoft didn't think the return on the checks were worth it to keep paying for them. Meanwhile Sony is paying 50 some million for Final Fantasy XVI's funding. It's certainly possible the return wasn't enough for Sony to justify the funding.
Ehhh...
Sony's audience is 2x the size of Xbox... So Xbox would need to pay substantially more than Sony for a similar deal.
This also means Sony has/had leverage. They could make requirements like (No FF games in GP while we market / fund any FF game)
Similar deals from Sony have leaked with Capcom and Sony. While Sony was marketing RE4, Capcom couldn't put any RE game into a competing service for 1 year.
Obviously every deal is going to be unique... just saying we don't know the exact details between Sony and SE... we just know SE isn't happy they signed the deal lol
Yeah... it's totally unreasonable to want a bigger audience when your game fails to make profit.
It's also unreasonable for artist to want their creations to be available to ask many people as possible.
oh well
Remake took like 4years to hit 7-8million units. I'm guessing Rebirth is doing something simular.
I think it has 2.5 mil sales last article i saw a couple months back,
I don't know how much it is now maybe 4 mil give or take,
Square was financially disappointed with those numbers as always
How many times do these guys have to come out and say they want to put games on Xbox. If there’s contractual obligations then honor them and release it when the time is right. It’s comedy to see square week after week say they want games everywhere.
With how blurry the performance mode was on PS5....good luck trying to get it to run on XBSS
Than buy it on the X, problem solved.
How good are options.
I think what Hardstruck-Platinum is saying is that 15-16million out of the 30m xbox series, on the market are Series S's and would not run the game well. The remaining 14-15m xbox series X users, probably arn't going to be as big a market for Final Fantasy, as this guy thinks it is.
They brought an S because they are not chasing a premium experience. S owners can upgrade if they want to.
Yes JRPGfan you're right. It might not have to be a premium experience but it still needs to be good enough that it could appeal to the 15 million on the S, which I'm doubtful it could do being so compromised
You cant make up your own standards for others.
The S is more than capable of running any game. Aslong as the game is serviceable.
It's no different to those gaming on inferior PCs. They are not expecting 4k gaming.
FF7 Remake is a base PS4 title, and the Series S is superior hardware to it so running Rebirth is incredibly likely.
Stop making anti consumers deals and you can.
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