Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Director on Potential Xbox Launch We Want to Reach as Many Players as Possible
Square Enix has made it perfectly clear that after the commercial underperformance ofFinal Fantasy 16and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth,it intends to adopt a multiplatform release strategy going forward. And though its looking increasingly likely thatFinal Fantasy 16will release for Xbox sooner rather than later,Final Fantasy 7 RemakeandRebirthboth remain exclusive to PlayStation (while the latter isnt even available on PC).And while nothing official has yet been announced on that front,Final Fantasy 7 Rebirthdirector Naoki Hamaguchi seems to be indicating that an Xbox release is very much something that Square Enix is planning on for both remakes.Speaking with GamesRadar, he talked about wanting to reach as many players as possible with theRemaketrilogy, saying, In terms of Final Fantasy 7, theres nothing really we can say at the moment, but certainly I do want to bring Final Fantasy 7 and the Remake series to as many players out there as possible, 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, Its so much more diversified now, so I think thats thats probably why our CEO, Mr. [Takashi] Kiryu, made that decision to move more in the direction of multiplatform thats just the way that the industry is going.Hamaguchi went on to add that personally, hes an Xbox fan himself. This is just a personal opinion now, but Ive got an Xbox myself. I think its a great hardware platform. I do like Xbox.Reports have previously claimed that though Square Enix is internally discussing Xbox ports forFinal Fantasy 7 RemakeandRebirth, theyre not yet in the works, though based on Hamaguchis statements, it does seem like the company intends to bring both games to Microsofts consoles sooner rather that later.Whether that means the final instalment of theRemaketrilogy will see a day and date Xbox release should be interesting to see, though thats probably a handful of years down the road.