PlayStation Store Conjures Speculation Over Final Fantasy VII Remake Coming To Xbox

Would love to see them announce this and Persona 5 as a GP title next week. That would be great

Playstation have a two year deal for forspoken as well, I think it was a similar deal for final fantasy 7 remake so I would assume it will hit xbox this year. Maybe an announcement at the event coming up

I have to say, I'm not excited about this game at all. Anyone who really wanted to play it has surely played in on PS4 by now? If this is announced I hope it's not given much weight in the showcase.

Apparently Sony shows FFVII part 2 remake today, so maybe it's time for part 1 to show up on Xbox.

Already played it on PS4/5, but Square-Enix love money.
So if the Sony deal has expired and MS come waving some Game Pass money under their nose, you can bet they will bite.

I played this on PlayStation and all it did was make me appreciate how good the original version was.

Sure the remake is all shiny and smooth but it also feels a bit sterile to me. It's missing the unquantifiable "magic" of the og iteration.

So for me not fussed whether it comes to Xbox or not.

It means nothing. Concrete Genie is not there either, neither the pathless, neither is Infamous. Some of these are Playstation Studio games.

It's taken so long my enthusiasm is just gone. A year ago i wound have gotten it day one, now id be content to just wait for it to go on sale.

A reason I have waited is that I have a Series X but only a PS4. No way I want to play the PS4 version if I can play it on Series X. Would just rather they announce it one way or another.

The only reason I want to play a PS5. If it comes to Xbox theres nothing on PS for me

This game was excellent, and pretty much made me into a FF fan. But if you're a RPG fan or a Final Fantasy fan, you probably already own a PS5. Still, games getting a wider audience and not being behind one console is always good.

We live in hope!

I for one loved the remake and can’t wait to play it again on Xbox.

This game deserves an Xbox release, more so for the fans than anything else.

One thing I think will be interesting is if it is Xbox One or just Xbox Series. And also will Intergrade be available on both.

There's still just part 1 of 3 am I correct? Remake announced at the beginning of PS3. 1st part released at the end of PS4 lifecycle. I have yet to hear anything about a part 2 or 3. By the time part 3 comes out there will be flying cars and elevators to the moon. At this point I'm just going to laugh if it fails.

@TheAshCohen09 just getting it on Xbox would be great for people who haven't played it, don't get why everything needs to be on Gamepass

Wouldn't get your hopes up. God of War got taken off the list too following it's PC release and that's a first party game. And since FF7R is on EGS it's probably for that reason, or a Steam release.

And it's highly unlikely Persona will appear on Xbox. P4G was remastered with no appearance on an Xbox platform, 5 probably isn't coming. PC release at best.

I was so excited with the idea of it coming to Xbox and it never did. The excitement is pretty much gone by now. This is the main reason I stopped supporting Square Enix. FFXV has been on sale so many times, however I refuse to pay for it until they release the remake.

I hope we hear good news, but I wouldn't get my hopes too high.

I’d prefer Persona 5R. FF7 Remake wasn’t that great in my opinion.

It was also “rated” again https://twitter.com/gematsu/status/1527327447447789577?s=21&t=M_HETtPg7ZZ-WaL_L0-ntw

They usually only do that for new platforms or new games.

I guess this proves that Sony's timed exclusive tactic really works. Even if it's "only" 2 years it's been long enough that people don't even care and consider it uninteresting to come elsewhere. The life cycle of a game really is just timed, apparently.

Heck, I bought it early on and still haven't played it. Probably wouldn't re-buy on XB, but I'm not actually positive, if it goes cheap enough, might just buy on XB and play it here. But, then, we all know the sequels will also be timed, so maybe no point.

@GADG3Tx87 P4G is weird. It never even made it to PS consoles. It was Vita exclusive, then PC. It's just skipped PS entirely, as well as Switch and XB. Atlus is just weird.... They ask us if we want P5, reliably, every year, on Xbox and Switch....and then it never happens, despite the internet melting down in the Nintendo corners of the world every time they ask. Yet they put the sequel on Switch but not the base game....and put Joker in Smash....because of the sequel.

Honestly I think Atlus just likes messing with people at this point. They're even flipping off their PS and Nintendo core audience.

@NEStalgia
True, P4G remaster never came to a PS home console and that's been.. nearly 2 years? More? Can't remember.

Persona 5 base game recently got taken down from the PS+ Collection so my guess is it's getting a PC port to Steam.

FF7R might come to Xbox but I have my doubts, I'll be surprised if it does. It could even be an indication that FF7R Part2 is pending an announcement with their State of Play coming up.

@GADG3Tx87 Yeah, it's been forever. And it's so weird. On Nintendo and Xbox groups most tend to assume Sony has exclusivity on Persona, but they can't even get 4 on their own consoles. And it's missing as far as we can tell from the new Plus Premium service with Vita titles. But it's on PC. IDK that anybody knows why Atlus does the things it does. Much of it just doesn't make sense to anyone outside. They're more mysterious and contradictory than Nintendo.

Unless Sony does buy Square, I do think 7R (eventually) gets to XB. In a way it's embarrassing, it looks like XB get's PS's old refuse when they're done with it. Like a budget console. Which is just where Sony wants to paint it vs their "Premium" console. Honestly can't see Sony not allowing it to go to XB when the sequel comes out exclusive. It's like a taunt.

@NEStalgia Not a sequel. More of a continuation of P5. Also P4G did come to Sony. You have to count the Vita. Just like Persona games came to Nintendo. Just not the mainline series thru DS.

I expect a PC release before an Xbox release, but what do I know? Not much...

@Rafie "Continuation", "Sequel", "tomato", "tomatoe".....

Oh, I did mention Vita, but that's the thing that's weird. The remake was built as a Vita game through and through, totally exclusive. But Vita's dead. And Sony home consoles never actually got the game. But PC did. And worse, it doesn't look like it'll be on Plus Premium with the Vita BC titles. It's just pretty much vanished into thin air and become a PC exclusive.

Similarly, why is SMTV Nintendo-exclusive when it runs like trash on Switch? It's like the game wasn't really built for Switch, but they refused to launch it anywhere else. It's not Rune Factory 5 or Ys9 levels of bad, but it's like a solid 18-20fps forever.

Atlus is just so strange with how they release things. I'd blame Sega, but Atlus was strange prior to Sega, too.

@SplooshDmg Yeah, I really hate the whole timed exclusive thing. I know Matrick started it and now we're stuck with it, but it's just such a crummy tactic. For a fairly limited amount of money, one company can buy the viable life of a game, without owning the game, and control the whole market for new releases. And I'm sure Apple and friends will join in on that too, and we're right back to how media/TV operates with media executives back room dealing to establish locks on content.

Did I mention I hate media executives? Because I hate media executives. They're the slimiest group this side of lawyers and politicians. I'd like to think there's a special place in hell for media executives where Rebecca Black's "Friday" is played unendingly through elevator speakers and they're forced to watch Cats (2019) forever while strapped into the A Clockwork Orange chair.

It will reach Xbox 100% but Sony paid twice for PS4 and PS5 and then Epic for PC and those exclusivity deals need to expire.

@SplooshDmg It may be a "gray" area in that it's not illegal, but it realistically should be, in the late but hopefully someday occurring ground-up rewrite of IP law. If you have a product, you sell that product. You should be able to push it to any retailer your icy black business-minded heart desires. If a store wants it for themselves, they can buy the property. If not, get in line like everybody else. The whole back room wheeling and dealing of temporary alliances strategically targeted to hurt competitor's in key markets more than to boost one's own product lineup really goes back to every trust condition Rockefeller was slammed for.

You really only see this in media. You don't have Walmart paying of Hasbro to prevent the latest Tickle Me Elmo from being sold in Target. Walmart's the sleaziest retailer around, and they don't do it. Amazon doesn't do it. Sometimes they may get their own exclusive version made for them, but that's just it, it's their own product not available elsewhere, made just for their spec. Sony doesn't get a Different FF7R, they just pay to keep the mfr selling it to competitors. It may be legal, but it really shouldn't be.

Sure, if Sony buys Square, it's all theirs to do with as they please. But then theres checks and balances and it applies only to Square, and not to any random game they money hat. SSFV is a little different because AFAIK they really did buy full exclusivity and own the title. That's a different scenario.

@SplooshDmg FML

At least, though, that's still better than the games exclusive thing, since it's a specific version of a specific character's figure that is made for contract for them. It's not like other Obi-Wan figures aren't at other retailers, and that each may not have their own unique one, it's their figure for them and that's the only place to get it. I think that's less bad than if they had Obi-Wan figures exclusively until Obi-Wan goes out of fashion and the C3PO Dance Review becomes more popular, and then Target can have it in time for the clearance bin. If there were an Xbox and PS version of FF7R that were different in some way, that could be cool. Like Spiderman in Avengers on PS, only with an XB alternative, and if it wasn't lame, and anyone actually cared. Or if Sony just bought out FF for themselves, ok, fair. You own it. Or even just 7R. But the whole "I'll pay you to not sell to competitors until sales drop and we don't care anymore" is just.... there's a lot of boundaries that crosses that run perpendicular to a free market.

But yeah, I think a lot of business rules are just based on the honor system because, like Japan, the west used to have honor. And even in business you could count on most people to do the right thing, most of the time, in a fair way. But we decided to sell our honor for an extra 3% off loot crates a while back and now have none. Since the 80's it's "who's watching and how bad is the punishment" is the sole deciding factor in "should I?" Honor system doesn't work. And I' rather honor be beat back into people no matter how many shackles and chains are required, we have plenty of stadiums to convert to torture chambers to accomplish the goal. But in the event that somehow that never happens, then we need iron-clad rules. Hate to say China's doing it right...but.....somehow we're managing to do it more wrong....

@SplooshDmg Rich nerds, apparently. IDK how we got from he nerd culture of the 90's to the nerd culture of today. I need to find a non-rich-nerd hobby. Knitting. Or glitter clothes, or something.

TBH I think the PC wild west is drawing to a close overall as much as with consoles. Soon it'll just be a streaming front-end, nVidia won't be able to convince people to buy $1500 video cards anymore when you can play the game better looking if you subscribe to Disney+GameHall if you want to play KotOR3. You're right though, kinda can't stand where gaming culture has gone.

Heck gaming and Obiwan is nothing compared to sneakers and handbags. HTF did gym shoes become the domain of rich people's gambling addictions?!

@SplooshDmg TBH despite being a nerd, and despite previously being a proud nerd, I've always had a kind of loathing impression of nerds. There were good nerds and bad nerds, but the bad nerds always seemed to be a majority of "nerd" culture, and always seemed to represent an almost sociopathic narcissism and self-righteousness. I'm kind of returning to the viewpoint that, self-implicating or not, "nerd-ism" is not a good personality trait. It puts one in the serpent pit next to hollywood trial lawyer and "DC lobbyist." The past few years have pretty much burned the sheen off the last few things in the world I didn't think was totally beyond salvaging as it all spirals out of control toward ever more extreme everything.

For gaming overall, I think there will come a time that local hardware just isn't practical for mainstream gaming, and we're already almost there. PC part prices will spiral into insanity just because it can. (Gaming parts, not business parts). Consoles will be kinda redundant, etc. Bandwidth is still the remaining problem everywhere, and it will be quite a while until that's resolved. But MS's cloud implementation, which isn't even as good as Stadias was (the tech was great, the business model was a disaster) has really convinced me, local really doesn't matter that much. I'm playing Yakuza 0 streamed locally from my S. I'm playing AI Som in the cloud. It's not Tekken, but I'd notice if the cursor felt wrong. THings like that bug me. And it's fine. I can't even remember which is local and which is cloud, it all feels like I'm playing local Switch. But the framerate is better and it has AA. I prefer local for sure, but, cost-wise, I don't see that being the future anymore. For better or worse, they've pushed the hardware to a point where it's just not economical anymore. That PC. Consoles and mid-gen upgrades. What $1000 to play the latest games at their best quality over 7 years? Why not just rent the hardware? It's what you're doing anyway. I don't love it, but I get it.

What's a mall? I think I remember those. It was the place you bought Orange Julius' right? LOL. Sad, all ours have been leveled and turned into "mixed use developments" of $2000/mo luxury apartments for "high income millennials" (who buy $1000 PlayStations and $1500 gym shoes that cost $4 to make in China), offices, and "shopping" (which is mostly up-scale organic fair trade shopping/dining and establishments and gyms for said shoe buyers) Which to be fair, isn't THAT unlike the old mall except there's no reason to go there at all for common folk without a french poodle in need of new ribbons.

Edit: Haha, oh I hear you on that one! I definitely spend a lot more time lighting things on fire than gaming these days. It's.......soothing.......heh....hehe.....hahahah....ahem!

Seriously, though, buy the ribeye. Sure it's like 4x the price, but it's better in every way. If you go with the Sirloin you're only going to realize you're missing out when you start eating it and wish you upgraded from the start. Can I interest you in free-range, grain-fed ribeye? You'll notice the difference!

@SplooshDmg I didn't think Starbucks had sensible names for anything ever. I mean if they were really being up-front in their naming you could order a single or double warm milk with extract of roaster chaff.

Pretty much all mom & pop everything is gone, and where there is one, it's some up-scale boutique that sells shoes that start at $150. Plumbing/electrical/heating-cooling/contractors is all the mom & pops left. The gas stations are all now one company that has perfectly uniform food sitting on perfectly uniform heatlamp racks like a high school cafeteria. Some foods you "order" and they "make them" but taking pre-frozen pre-portioned factory food and assembling and microwaving them. It's basically grocery store freezer food made in real time. They have griddles for specific foods. But it's all perfectly uniform factory as far as the eye can see. Not that it matters, the only "store" left are just CVS. That's really your primary store.

The real shoppin (the former mall with the boutiques, and a normal shopping center across the street), is half an hour away. Maybe 23 minutes on a zero-traffic time of a zero traffic day. Google maps says it's 11 minutes. IDK what google's smoking. There's more than 11 minutes just waiting at the 20 traffic lights between here and there. And their 11 minute route takes you past the destination in a loop through 3 more lights, 2 huge long ones, I guess to only make right turns (even though there's dedicated turn lanes to go left.) So the world and business plans on big shopping 11 minutes from here with an extra loop for good measure, while really getting there takes 22-40 depending on traffic. We have like 200 restaurants though you can do UberEats with, so there's that. Most are chains though....

Stadia >> Google Maps. Useless.

Meh. If it takes less than 8 hours to cook, it's not really a bbq

I’m not expecting it but it would be a welcome surprise. I haven’t played it yet and even though I have PS4 Pro, I’d much prefer to play it with an XBOX controller with the much improved performance on my Series X.

@dsar9012

First I was talking about Perosna 5 not about FF7R

Second it would hardly be pathetic to release it after timed exclusivity, there's nothing to say it would be full price and if people actually want the game they will buy it so it being on Gamepass isn't the only way that makes sense

Third Microsoft also get timed exclusivity for games it's just on games that aren't as highly anticipated like Stalker 2 or The Medium & indie darlings like - the excellent - Tunic. Microsoft have also just locked off Bethesda which I'm sure you were happy about since it hurt Playstation.

There is a fair chance it is coming. Seeing the intergrade version launched about a year ago (i think it was june 9 or 10), which is almost to perfect in time for the Xbox show. So even though i dont think it will happen, i see a slight possibility it will even be a "day 1" gamepass launch