Today’s the official launch day for the Final Fantasy 7 Remake on PS4. And now some people (and gaming websites) are getting worked up into a frenzy over something that showed up in a recent trailer for the game.

During the trailer, which you can see below, there’s text along the bottom that says “Gameplay captured on PC.” This has led many to say this is a “hint” for a coming PC release, but I think people are probably getting overly worked up about its significance.

We already know that the Final Fantasy 7 Remake is a timed exclusive on PS5 until April 2021. So, it was already highly possible that a PC (and Xbox) release was going to be coming all along, so this should not really surprise anyone. Remember, this is a Square Enix game, not some internal Sony game. Sony has only recently started to trickle out some of its exclusives to PC over time like Horizon Zero Dawn, which is a contrast to Microsoft which releases all Xbox exclusives on PC on day one.

But again, this is a different publisher, and Square Enix is already very familiar with PC releases for a ton of its titles, so this would not really be all that wild of a step to take once the Sony exclusivity deal ends.

Past that, the text on the screen here may have nothing to do with this at all.

You can say “footage captured on PC” even if you’re say, running a PS4 Pro build of it, and this just so happened to be the best way to capture it for the trailer. “Footage captured on PC” is a different phrase than “PC version of the game shown.” So I really don’t think this means anything at all one way or the other.

Fundamentally, yes, it does seem obvious that the Final Fantasy 7 Remake will probably come to PC in a year once this exclusivity deal ends. Square Enix has had PC releases for Final Fantasy and other games for years, and this should be no different, especially since they have a full year to learn from the PlayStation version and perfect that build. So we don’t have to be treating this like any kind of groundbreaking revelation as opposed to say, God of War coming to PC or something that would be a little more unexpected. This will happen, it will just take time.



Posted: Apr 06, 2020 7:49 am
Last Updated: Sep 01, 2020 1:04 pm
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