FF7 Remake is currently $50/£50 on Steam (and $70/£70 from next month)
Square Enix has released Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade on Steam – and consumers only have a few weeks to purchase it for less than its $70/£70 base price.
Intergrade’s new Steam page confirms that Square Enix is offering a 29% launch discount until July 7, which temporarily takes the game’s price down to $49.69/£49.69. However, according to SteamDB, the UK pricing is still nearly 30% above Valve’s recommended pricing for the title.
FF7 Remake Intergrade remains $70/£70 on the PlayStation Store, where it debuted a year ago, and also on the Epic Games Store, where it arrived in December 2021.
The Steam version was announced as part of a FF7 25th anniversary stream on Thursday.
Square Enix was one of the first major publishers to bring $70 game pricing to PC, which started rolling out broadly with the launch of PS5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles. Intergrade PC was released at the price point last year, and the upcoming Forspoken is also available to pre-order at $70 on Steam.
Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan has previously defended the company’s decision to price select first-party PS5 games at $70, such as Demon’s Souls and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition.
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Asked by The Telegraph if he considered $70/£70 to be a fair price for a video game, PlayStation boss Ryan said: “Yes, yes, I do. If you measure the hours of entertainment provided by a video game, such as Demon’s Souls compared to any other form of entertainment, I think that’s a very straightforward comparison to draw.”
Other publishers have also decided to increase software prices for some of their next-gen games, including Take-Two with NBA
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