Some people believe that more parts of one of Square Enix’s biggest franchises are coming to Microsoft’s console, but others say the opposite, making it a very strange situation.

On the Xbox Two podcast (embedded below), Jez Corden talked about how the Final Fantasy VII Remake project (all three parts of the trilogy), Final Fantasy, and Final Fantasy I-VI Pixel Remaster will all be coming to Xbox. He believes that Microsoft will make some kind of announcement about the franchise during the Tokyo Game Show. He says that Sony has not committed that the trilogy will not appear on Microsoft’s console, but that it is questionable when.

In any case, the project is still in development, so Square Enix might wait until the final part of the Final Fantasy VII Remake is finished before porting all three games to Redmond’s hardware, which will probably be the next-generation Xbox by then, as development takes 3-4 years, and the next-generation hardware will definitely be in stores by 2027. With Final Fantasy XIV already on the Xbox, the next installment will probably be Final Fantasy XVI, and if this is indeed the direction Square Enix is going in, we wonder how it will run on the Xbox Series S, because the PlayStation 5 sometimes struggles to run Clive’s story properly, and the PS5 has more powerful hardware…

Meanwhile, another insider, Alex Donaldson, says that neither Final Fantasy VII Remake nor Final Fantasy VII Rebirth are in development for Xbox. He shares Corden’s opinion, so he also thinks that Square Enix will wait for the trilogy to be finished before porting, and that the publisher will slowly start planning everything for Xbox, unless there’s a good reason to the contrary (like a money envelope for exclusivity…). He thinks that projects (with exclusives) started under the old CEO will not be changed anymore.

Who knows what the truth is…

Source: WCCFTech, Icon-Era