Up to date: 3/6/2024, 4:40 p.m. ET: Washington Publish 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 complete FFVII trilogy is NOT but confirmed to be Sony unique,” the Publish journalist wrote on Twitter.
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I hope you weren’t holding your breath for Remaining Fantasy VII Remake, Rebirth, and regardless of the threequel might be known as to come back 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 Publish, 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 Remaining 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 today” and connects to “how we’ve labored collectively on Remaining Fantasy VII Rebirth.”
“Remaining Fantasy has all the time been one of many main franchise pillars on PlayStation consoles. [Square Enix is] top-of-the-line within the enterprise at pushing past their followers’ lofty expectations and displaying off what might be completed with PlayStation {hardware},” Svensson added.
Producer Yoshinori Kitase additionally advised the Publish that the workforce behind Remaining Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth would possibly’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 sport design could 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 approach to PC in 2021. Rebirth is anticipated to do the identical sooner or later sooner or later, although the timeline for PlayStation’s PC ports is usually a 12 months or extra after the console launch. However in the event you have been hoping to take a look at Rebirth on Recreation Cross 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 might maintain? We would all be enjoying the final installment of the trilogy in Nintendo’s holo-dome.
