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

Up to date: 3/6/2024, 4:40 p.m. ET: Washington Put up 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 write down the sentence like that. All the FFVII trilogy is NOT but confirmed to be Sony unique,” the Put up journalist wrote on Twitter.

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I hope you weren’t holding your breath for Ultimate Fantasy VII Remake, Rebirth, and regardless of the threequel shall 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 Put up, Sony Interactive Leisure’s vice chairman of second- and third-party content material ventures and strategic initiatives, Christian Svensson, stated that S&S—Sony and Sq.—agreed to make the Remake trilogy of Ultimate Fantasy VII a console unique when growth on the mission 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 Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth.”

“Ultimate Fantasy has all the time been one of many main franchise pillars on PlayStation consoles. [Square Enix is] among the finest within the enterprise at pushing past their followers’ lofty expectations and exhibiting off what might be achieved with PlayStation {hardware},” Svensson added.

Producer Yoshinori Kitase additionally informed the Put up that the staff behind Ultimate Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth may’ve needed to alter their imaginative and prescient for the mission to construct variations for different consoles.

“Had [FF7 Rebirth] not been on a single platform, the world map wouldn’t be seamless, and recreation design might have needed to regress considerably,” Kitase stated.

Kotaku has reached out to Sony and Sq. Enix for remark.

Remake dropped on PS4 in March 2020 and made its method to PC in 2021. Rebirth is predicted 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 have been hoping to take a look at Rebirth on Recreation Go or Swap 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 would all be enjoying the final installment of the trilogy in Nintendo’s holo-dome.