It's not a great time to be a Final Fantasy fan on Xbox...
Square's world-famous Final Fantasy JRPG series has gone through many phases. In the early years, it was all about Nintendo, with the first six games launching for the NES/Famicom and later the SNES/Super Famicom . But with the advent of disc-based media offering greater storage for bigger worlds and better presentation than before , Final Fantasy VII-XII would migrate the popular series over to PlayStation.
It could still be that FFVII Remake may come to Xbox in the future, of course. The reimagined classic is set to be split across three releases, leading some to believe that we could see the full thing when it's all complete while Sony puts out the individual parts in the meantime as console exclusives — the second part, Rebirth, is already confirmed to be another timed PS5 exclusive.
Granted, FF's nature of telling self-contained stories means it can go anywhere and each new game should be able to hold up on its own merits, as it has been able to do for decades. But speaking of decades, maybe we could be about to see what the fourth actually looks like for FF, having bounced from Nintendo to Sony to multiformat and now, seemingly, heading back to the PlayStation scene where the franchise truly blew up.
I'm talking about the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series, which includes enhanced versions of the first six games in the franchise and is set to release on pretty much everything except Xbox in the next few months. The six games are all on PC and mobile already but will arrive on consoles soon, and unless I'm completely underestimating the process, bringing simple 8- and 16-bit classics like these to all modern platformsXbox can't help but feel pointed and intentional.
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