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Final Fantasy 7 Remake is still absent from Xbox.
But it hasn’t all be rosy.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake is still absent from Xbox.
Xbox hardware sales continue to decline, and a common narrative online points to the console’s content gap.
Many major franchises have been historically missing from the Xbox platform, although the situation has improved over time.
The Final Fantasy franchise is not the powerhouse it once was, for a variety of reasons.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake retells the classic 90s JRPG with Unreal Engine flair. Both 7 Remake and its sequel, Rebirth, are currently PlayStation exclusive on console, skipping Xbox.
Inconsistent quality and wildly diverging gameplay experiments game-over-game have divided up the fanbase and undermined the franchise’s nostalgia.
But also, the fact that Final Fantasy games generally only ship on one platform at a time.
As such,Square Enix has pledged to move to multi-platform game development, Xbox included.
Final Fantasy 14 is doing well on Xbox, and recently joined Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster to become one of the first “buy to own” games on Xbox Cloud Gaming.
There’s hope, though.
[…] This is just a personal opinion now, but I’ve got an Xbox myself.
I think it’s a great hardware platform.
I do like Xbox."
It hasn’t all been losses, though.
I already mentionedSTALKER 2, which has given Xbox a strong timed console exclusive of its own this month.
Microsoft also managed to land Hideo Kojima’s high-profile PlayStation exclusiveDeath Stranding for Xboxonly recently.
Naoki Hamaguchi is correct in suggesting that we’re moving to a more multi-platform gaming landscape.
Xbox CEO Phil Spencer himself emphasized thateven more Xbox games could launch on PlayStationin the future.
