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 write down the sentence like that. Your entire 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 shall be known as to return to a non-PlayStation console. Powerful 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 improvement on the mission began. Svensson added that specializing in third-party content material is “ingrained in [PlayStation’s] DNA to this present day” 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] among the finest within the enterprise at pushing past their followers’ lofty expectations and displaying off what could be accomplished with PlayStation {hardware},” Svensson added.
Producer Yoshinori Kitase additionally informed the Submit that the staff behind Closing 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 mentioned.
Kotaku has reached out to Sony and Sq. Enix for remark.
Remake dropped on PS4 in March 2020 and made its strategy to PC in 2021. Rebirth is predicted to do the identical in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later, although the timeline for PlayStation’s PC ports is usually a yr or extra after the console launch. However when you have been hoping to take a look at Rebirth on Recreation Cross or Swap 2 in some unspecified time in the future 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 long run might maintain? We would all be taking part in the final installment of the trilogy in Nintendo’s holo-dome.