Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Will Come In Two Discs, The Right Way To Release Physical Games

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has been officially revealed in Summer Games Fest. Funnily enough, the one thing everyone is talking about it doesn’t really have anything to do with the game content itself.

As reported by Eurogamer, that would be the somewhat surprising announcement that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will be coming in two discs. It is surprising because video games coming in multiple physical media haven’t been a thing for some time.

Unfortunately, the growing trend had been for game companies to not even bother to try to put their newest games on disc or cart. For Overwatch, the Nintendo Switch box literally does not have a cartridge inside it, instead coming with a game code.

Subsequently, games on PlayStation and Xbox have recently been coming out with no real data on disc, instead with the disc functioning as an installer / DRM. Entering the disc to the console prompts a download of the entire game to the hard drive. Subsequently, for many of these games, even if the game was downloaded, you will need the disc to be in the console to be allowed to play.

With all that in mind, this two disc release should actually be welcome news. It may force players to switch between discs while playing, but that would be a fair compromise to having a real physical copy of the game that can be played even if the digital version becomes unavailable in the future.

But let’s talk about the game itself here. It picks up where the last game dropped off, and it is also made clear that the story diverges from the original Final Fantasy 7, with some time paradoxes at work.

Cloud, Aerith, and Tifa do return, alongside Yuffie, from the Intergrade DLC, and Red XIII, who will be playable for the first time in Final Fantasy 7. Red XIII was