Final Fantasy 7 Remake and the recently released second part of the remake trilogy, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, won’t be coming to rival platforms.
Being dubbed a PlayStation console exclusive for one year, many Xbox fans hoped that the beloved remake of the 1997 classic would hit their platform at some point. After all, the game ended up releasing on PC in 2021 as well. Earlier this year, WindowsCentral’s Jez Corden said that he had tentative evidence that there are discussions about an Xbox port of the game.
According to Sony’s Sony Interactive Entertainment’s VP of second- and third-party content ventures and strategic initiatives, Christian Svensson, however, both 2020’s Remake and Rebirth have been secured as console exclusives forever. Svensson said as much in an interview with The Washington Post. We’ve included some parts from the interview below (behind paywall):
Securing “Remake” and “Rebirth” as console exclusives is a feather in the PlayStation cap. It’s part of recognizing the original game’s importance as a defining game for the PlayStation experience, said Christian Svensson, vice president of second- and third-party content ventures and strategic initiatives at Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Additionally, the article reads:
Svensson said console exclusivity was mutually desired when the remake project fired up.
Interestingly, the article from known journalist Gene Park initially mentioned the entire remake trilogy to remain console exclusives, but he later amended his article to only mention Remake and Rebirth. “I am clarifying the second point: it was a mistake on my part to write the sentence like that”, Park wrote on X. “The entire FFVII trilogy is NOT yet confirmed to be Sony exclusive. The article has been amended to only mention Remake and Rebirth.”
So there you have it – Final Fantasy VII Remake and the recently released Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will remain console exclusives, and it would only be logical if this also applies to the third part of the remake trilogy. We’ll update you as soon as more information about Final Fantasy 7 Remake comes in.
