Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 won’t be a PlayStation 6 exclusive despite Final Fantasy 7 Remake originally launching only on PS4 and its sequel Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth originally launching only on PS5, Square Enix has said.
Speaking to 4Gamer and translated by Genki on X/Twitter, Final Fantasy series producer Yoshinori Kitase and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi said the PlayStation exclusivity tradition will be broken amid a wider shift to multiplatform releases.
Sony’s PS5 arrived in 2020, seven years after the PS4 arrived in 2013. The same pace would see the PS6 released in 2027, which is the same time Square Enix hopes to release the third and final game in the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy.
4Gamer therefore asked if fans will need to buy a third generation of consoles in order to close out the story, but Kitase said definitively this won’t be the case. “No, you can rest assured about the next one,” he said.
Hamaguchi said Square Enix plans to release future games on a wide range of platforms so as many people can play them as possible. This comes after both Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 were well received but failed to meet financial expectations.
Square Enix has already brought both of these to PC, but Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida has said Square Enix is looking to double down on Xbox releases too. Nothing has been announced regarding Part 3’s release platforms but fans should therefore expect a release across PS5 (and maybe PS6), PC, and maybe even Xbox. The franchise is reportedly gearing up for a release on the Nintendo Switch 2 console too.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.