Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's PS5 Exclusivity Is A Sign Of Its Ambition
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will be exclusive to PS5. Older consoles are missing out as Square Enix fully dedicates itself to the current generation. The same is true of Final Fantasy 16, another blockbuster JRPG that is set to call Sony its home later next year.
This news was glazed over during the game’s initial announcement, with some assuming it would come to PS4 given that’s where the first game debuted. But it isn’t, so those who fell in love with the first entry on older hardware will need to find the pennies for a PS5 or lose out. That’s a bummer, but this evolution was also inevitable, even more so for a massive exclusive like this that Sony will market as an experience not available anywhere else.
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A PC port will inevitably rear its head, but for the first few months of its life, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will be on PS5 alone, and that’s an incredibly exciting prospect. The official reason for this exclusivity comes down to the SSD, with Square Enix wanting players to have the ability to explore a massive world without the compromise of loading screens and unnatural segmentation. If an open world exists in Rebirth, we’ll be able to explore it in a way that completely does away with previous restrictions. That’s a massive development for the series.
Recent comments from Yoshinori Kitase seem to confirm that Rebirth will be open world in some capacity, even if it just refers to larger zones in between story locations like Nibelheim and Cosmo Canyon. We’re out of Midgar now, with the closing scenes of Intermission showing our lead characters hitching a ride to who knows where while Zack Fair awakens outside the dystopia and makes
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