Square Enix Hopes Final Fantasy VII Remake Will Boost PS4 Sales

As it stands, Sony’s PlayStation 4 was the best-selling console for the month of May, and depending on which market you are looking at, has managed to dominate the charts in the previous months as well. However it seems that Square Enix wants to give Sony a helping hand with the remake of Final Fantasy VII.

During the week, Square Enix announced that they would be remaking Final Fantasy VII and apart from pleasing fans of the franchise and making new fans, Square Enix has other reasons for it as well. Speaking to Engadget, Final Fantasy VII remake director Tetsuya Nomura revealed that they are hoping that this will help increase the number of PS4s sold by Sony.

[Sureshot]

Pretty sure Sony doesn't need help selling PS4s...

[ZaWarudo]

In Japan they do. PS4 is moving slowly down there, the console scene in Japan isn't so hot.

But holy hell FFVII remake will sell PS4 like hotcakes in Japan, especially if they do a bundle.

[NeverHeavyMan]

Your second sentence answers the issue for itself. It's not the PS4 that's moving so slow, as it is Japan's declining interest in the console segment. That considered, the PS4 is doing fine there.

FFVII Remake will be plenty to boost sales, however, and with this, Square is, basically, confirming that the PS4 will be the only console to play this on (as I always suspected, PS4 release first, PC down the line).

[justlikeme]

It's a given that there will be a FF7 bundle with a PS4 and I will buy it!

[Fkhalf16]

In Japan, there are also two other franchise that could potential ignite console sales. Dragon Quest XI (rumored to be developed for console) and Persona 5 as these two titles will likely release before FFVII does.

[DevilOgreFish]

"Square Enix Hopes Final Fantasy VII Remake Will Boost PS4 Sales"

They pulled the same stunt with the FFVII tech demo and XIII-VS. When and where the game will be is the question.

[DevilOgreFish]

At my statement above, "when and where", we already know that it's coming to ps4 first, I'm just saying it could be a placeholder for ps5. (From their track records with ffxiii-vs and kh3.)

[joab777]

Persona 5 and SFV will help a ton. FF7 would help but they will probably be at the 50 million + mark when it releases.

[xHeavYx]

Gimme a FF7 themed PS4 and a CE and I'll help with the sales boost.

[indyman7777]

So the question comes up. If Square thinks that the game will sale PS4's then WHAT was there excuse for NOT making it sooner? It sure wasn't because people where not begging for it. Was the last CEO that closed minded on forcing people to want Action rpg's? And Action adventure games? No wonder all the smaller jrpg development houses eat there jrpg lunch money.

[nitus10]

Hand-helds and smart phones are great when you are on the move, however when you are home many gamer's prefer consoles or PC's since you can display on a much larger screen, be it HDTV or monitor.

@xHeavYx

Why get a themed PS4? All you need is either a themed sticker or a themed skin which if you already have a plain PS4 is fairly cheap, easy put on and if you like easy to remove if/when your mood changes.

Do a quick search for PS4 themed stickers and/or skins.

[nX]

Of course it's about Japan here, the western markets are doing fine. Consoles are only selling slowly in Asia and FF7 is pretty much the best game to change that. I just hope it doesn't take too long until it's finished.

[comebackkid9891]

Good on ya SE

[MasterCornholio]

It doesn't hurt if it sells more though.

Maybe that's what developers need to revitalize the Japanese console msrket.

[Haru]

Actually they do

PS4 needs to outsell PS2 and become the best selling home console in history

[Genuine-User]

That's not going to happen. PS2 will remain the undefeated King.

[PhoenixUp]

PS4 won't even outsell PS3 in Japan

[indyman7777]

PS4 has been on pace to outsell PS2 since the first MONTH and has never looked back.

[Ezz2013]

Ps4 is selling at much faster rate than Ps2
http://www.techradar.com/ne...
http://venturebeat.com/2015...

[Dark_matter]

@ Sureshot:

Exactly what I was gonna say.

[blackblades]

It's nice to see them care about there market.

[nX]

It's for mutual benefits of course, they are helping to grow their audience as well. This game will make a lot of money for Square.

[Hoffmann]

Pretty sure all console game developers hope the PS4 would sell better in Japan.

[Muzikguy]

I'm confused by Nomura saying this. In essence by saying he wants it to boost sales you'd think he's talking short term. The game won't be out until who knows when. How does he know sales won't have already taken off? Is he saying we should wait years to buy a PS4? Obviously no, but just see what I'm saying? :)

I guess in there be talks about opening people up before the release of the game. I just hope they don't screw it up somehow, or cancel

[miyamoto]

"Pretty sure Sony doesn't need help selling PS4s..."

That is a big lie!

I disagree.

Like what Mark Cerny said, the PS4 was made considering many third party developers desires, input, suggestions, advice, consultation, and proposals during its conception. The PS4 was designed to be the Ultimate Third Party developer's Machine. The PS4 was meant and designed to run their dream games.
These third party devs help make the PS4 and they are expecting it to run their games like they envisioned it to.

And Square Enix is one of those developers.

[HeartlessGamer]

I'm sure it will

[showtimefolks]

Oh it will no doubt about it

2016 the last gurdain
2017 hopefully shenmue 3 and ff7

[jmac53]

Considering it's Square, we will probably see FF7 in 2018.

[miyamoto]

Not with the huge amount of money SE got from MS out of the Rise of the Tomb Raider timed exclusivity. I believe around $150 million ball park.
This is why SE is announcing PS4 exclusives in Japan left and right on a weekly basis.
That is money put to good use.

[Haru]

@miyamoto thanks microsoft for helping square relase more PS4 exclusives!

[showtimefolks]

Jmac

I believe you could be right too, but this is the new square Enix. They are all about games.

A remake shouldn't take them 3 plus years to be honest.

Ff15 2016 for sure and I also believe we will get kingdom Hearts either in fall or very early like February or March 2017

Ff7 In 2017 is looking more and more likely. Don't forget that other final fantasy game sony announced at e3 coming to ps4 and Xbox one.

This is how I see it

Just cause 3 and Hitman 2015
dues ex early 2016
final fantasy for ps4 and vita in mid 2016
ff 15 in fall 2016
kingdom Hearts 3 early 2017
ff7 remake fall 2017

But these are just my guesses

Miyamoto

If that figure is even correct within a ball park of that number than just wow.

But I guess 3rd party exclusive are not easy to get or cheap

[DragonKnight]

@Showtimefolks: The only FF game confirmed to be coming to Xbox right now is FFXV. World of Final Fantasy is PS4 only.

[SatanicEyeJesus]

we cant forget ffxv

[formanbradley]

FFVII and Shenmue 3 are AT LEAST 2020, do you realize how many projects Square still has to release... and they are years off despite what you may think.

[deadpoolio316]

2020 LMAO that is literally the WORST guess, that would be in PS5/X2 territory considering PS4/X1 released in 2013....Both of those games are 2017 max

[rainslacker]

Two games on the PS3 that were in development hell for 6-7 years and suddenly every game is 6-7 years away. Baffling logic there. Why not focus on the hundreds of other games that get released within two or so years from their announcement, since that is generally about how long most of them go. Square releases about as many games a year as EA or Ubisoft without incident...just food for thought.

[miyamoto]

Dude MS is a huge money giant
Timed DLCs for GTA IV and COD games already costed $50M each.
FF13 going to 360 from PS3 exclusivity was $100 M.
ROTTR is 1 year timed exclusivity.... go figure.

[kevnb]

Well if the foolish kids here get their wish for action based combat... they may have a serious issue.

[Snookies12]

As someone who's played through FF VII at least 6-7 times... I would very much prefer turn based combat on this one. However, I wouldn't mind them going more the Crisis Core route for gameplay. Something that allows commands, but also involves movement. In a perfect world, it would have the ATB the original had, but a change up in combat style won't ruin it for me. The characters, world and the story are what matter most. So long as those remain intact. It'll all be good.

[PhoenixUp]

Makes sense that they'd want the PS4 install base in Japan to dramatically increase for the good of the Japanese gaming industry.

[kingfetish17]

I want a FF6 remake instead. The FF7 brand is over-milked.

[miyamoto]

Good call.
I guarantee FF6 will be next if FF7 R prove to be a huge mega hit.

[Aloy-Boyfriend]

FF7 brands isn't overmilked. It had a well deserved compilation of games which only expanded the universe. Every game was solid. And if you are talking about the ports, they don't matter. FF7 has been teh biggest FF game ever so far so it deserves a remake. Maybe after this they will make FF6 but FF7 is priority

[kingfetish17]

Dirge of Cerberus wasn't that solid.

From a financial standpoint, SE will gain a lot from the FF7 Remake. Hopefully some of those funds go towards a FF6 Remake in the future. It's the best game in the franchise imo and it needs to be experienced by young millennials that consider themselves FF fans. I'm sure a lot of them passed up on it because of its 16-bit sprite graphics. I'm 32 years old btw and been a FF fan since the early 90's lol

[rainslacker]

More products have released in the FF12 world than any other FF world. Numerous portable games, quite a few mobile games, the main game, a card game, a manga, some other crap I can't remember, and no one said a word, and many say they want FF12 remastered.

FF13 was shaping up to be the next milked FF, but they changed FFvs to FFXV, so guess they bucked that.

FF7 had the main game, a well liked prequel, one spin off, a movie, and some cameos/parts for the characters in other games, and of course merchandising. All this happened over the course of almost 20 years, without much happening in the last 5 since AC released.

[kingfetish17]

Reason why FF6 needs a remake too. Over the course of around 25 years, it's only had the main game released. Nothing else milked from it except for a few new cutscenes.

It's the best game in the franchise imo and it needs to be experienced by young millennials that consider themselves FF fans. I'm sure a lot of them passed up on it because of its 16-bit sprite graphics. I'm 32 years old btw and been a FF fan since the early 90's lol

I've seen and played everything that's FF7 related (even the average Dirge of Cerberus). That brand is played out for me. I just feel FF6 deserves more recognition than FF7, but of course, SE needs to focus on what's best for their business and that's FF7.

[nitus10]

I do have the PS2 version of FFXII and it displays quite well via my backwards comparable PS3, so I would not really be interested in purchasing a remake. The same goes for FFX and FFX-2 although they are available for the PS3 and PS4.

One feature of FFXII that none of the other FF games had was they actually removed the battle arena for pretty much all encounters. Basically you fought were you encountered the enemy.

Like with allot of FF games FFXII had active turn based or wait turn base where a button press would pause while you issues commands. In most cases you only needed this in a boss battle or when you made a mistake in how you wanted your characters to act. If you wanted you could micro manage your characters but why since it would take twice as long to play the game.

Which is the best FF game I have played? Personally I don't like to do that since I think they are all good games and all have their strengths and weakness.

@kingfetish17

If Square/Enix is going to make a remake on FF games prior to FF7 then they would IMHO have to get rid of the "super deformed characters" and put in more life like characters however this would most likely put off players who remembered the original, but then again should SE care? The best thing to do is just come up with new IP.

[kingfetish17]

@nitus10

FF7 had deformed looking characters too and its remake is still taking shape. There are life-like FF6 character art drawn by Yoshitaka Amano and CG cutscenes that SE could take reference from to create a FF6 remake.

Fans of the original FF6 will not be put off by a remake. They've actually been wanting it to happen. It's just that they've been overshadowed by the fanbase & popularity of FF7.

A FF6 Remake would pretty much be like a new IP to many fans that passed it up in the past or younger fans who've currently never experienced its masterpiece status due to its graphical shortcomings.

FF6's storyline, characters, music, etc deserve way more recognition than FF7's in this day in age and every millennial/young/newbie FF fan should take it upon themselves to experience it. Only way that would happen is if a graphically improved remake was made, since a lot of those gamers nowadays are unfortunately spoiled graphic whores lol

[rainslacker]

@nitus

I wasn't criticizing 12 at all. The game play itself was some of the best in the series IMO. I didn't really care for the story, because it just seemed like the characters were in a world which they ultimately had no effect on. It wasn't a terrible story, nor did it have bad characters, just they didn't really do much. I remember when I got to the end of the game the first time i played it I asked myself...is this really it, simply because those big epic moments never happened like in other games.

@king

I like 6 as well. Don't really have anything to say about it.

I think before I start asking for remakes of all the different FF though, I'd like to see how FF7 turns out.

[F0XHOUND]

A limited edition final Fantasy VII PS4 in brushed aluminium style coating, including an enhanced bevel VII logo on it..... I'd buy that and we already have 2 PS4's in my house!

[GortJester]

I'm pretty sure they have nothing to worry about on that front. Everyone that doesn't have one will buy it for this.

[TheTony316]

I'm sure it will

[Jag-T1000]

When this gets released (sometime in 2020), nobody will care.

[F0XHOUND]

True, I first player this game like... 15 years ago.... I guess I couldn't wait another 4 or 5. Lol

We will see this game by 2017 100%, square Enix dont actually massively delay many games. Versus XIII had many reasons for its delay.

[vickers500]

What were they, out of curiosity?

[deadpoolio316]

Jesus stop with the god awful terrible 2020 guesses. That would make it a PS5/X2 game....

[rainslacker]

Yeah, in six years people will stop clamoring for a remake of a game they've been asking for for over a decade now. Stupid silly gamers and their ADD that only last 15 years...one year shy of when people will continue to care about the remake.

[KryptoniteTail]

It will a bit at least but how much is determined by how well FFXV is received by newbies and how faithful FF7R is to FF7. If new fans are happy with FFXV then they'll likely try FF7R, and if FF7 is a faithful remake then it can move tons of PS4s.

[Veneno]

It already looks very different from the old FF7 just from the one trailer. I'm not so sure if they will really please the old fans with this.

[KryptoniteTail]

I'm still holding out hope. It doesnt have to be (and arguably shouldn't be) an EXACT remake, but the core elements must remain, and if they do, I will be happy. I don't even care if they add to the core elements, or refine them, I am very flexible in my expectations. As long as they don't just make a brand new game with the same characters and call it FF7 (because that isn't a REMAKE, that is a REBOOT) I should be okay with this.

Most importantly, keep it turn-based.

[tulholdren]

More sony goodness on the way. Can't wait to play this on my PS4.

[jokerisalive]

Of course it will along with all the other epic games Sony showed us at E3 like UN4 and Horizon....PS4 is unstoppable this gen!!!!

[Tekkers]

I hope they make a limited edition FFVII PS4

[Veneno]

You KNOW they will

[Double_O_Revan]

I may have to bite and buy that one. Ive been so jealous off all the nice limited editions, and all I have is my pain ol day 1 edition. =(

I probably would've bought the MGS one if they released it in the US.

[nitus10]

Why bother when you will most likely be able to get decals and/or skin kit for say $10 to $30 which will go on any PS4 or even the PS3 for that matter. A nice feature of skinning and decals is the ability to remove them when the mood takes you.

[Avalanche]

if they change the turn based system into the garbage that FF is today people will actually boycott this game

[Artemidorus]

Put it this way I would of got a Playstation 4 just for this and I already know someone else who is doing the same in the future.

[jeromeface]

My cousin's getting one largely due to the remake. He's been on the fence about FF15, after the 7 remake trailer he's completely sold. So its helped sell at least one.

[megamanX2]

"Square Enix Hopes Final Fantasy VII Remake Will Boost PS4 Sales"

oh gee i wonder

[vastolorde666]

2015-just cause 3
Hitman
2016-Deus ex
-Final Fantasy 15
-Tomb raider ps4
-Hitman dlc's
2017-Kingdom hearts 3
-Final Fantasy HD remasters
-Dragon quest
-Thief 2
2018-Final fantasy 7 remake

[PSN_ZeroOnyx]

I only disagree with the 2018 release of FFVIIR. 2017 is the 20 year anniversary of FFVII and i think they will make sure they release FFVIIR in time for the anniversary.

[elarcadia]

Gah, I really hope I don't have to wait until 2017 for Kingdom Hearts. That would be a bug bummer.

[Relientk77]

I mean it probably will, but does it really need to boost sales, think they're doing pretty good

[formanbradley]

It sure will push PS4's... if you guys don't completely change the narrative and gameplay elements

[Lionsguard]

Given their progress with FF15, FF7 will more likely help sell PS5s.

[DualWielding]

I'm pretty sure he meant he wants to increase PS4 sales in Japan... as a Japanese company they should surely care about keeping the Japanese console market form dying

[Runechaz]

If they can release the game before the console end life it should help sell.

[elarcadia]

I plan to wait and get FF7 for either the PC or Xbone...however, if Sony announces a special edition PS4 FF7 console (console not bundle folks) I would be all over that!!!

[Master of Unlocking]

This is gonna sell PS4s by the bucket load, and that's regardless of whether it will be a good game or not.

If it's actually the good game everyone expects with all those people on board of the project, and it makes no doubt to me it will be a fantastic hit that even those hardcore bitchin' mofos at Edge will love, it will seal the winner of this generation of consoles sales-wise. Consoles war there will be no more.

[sovkhan]

In Japan that's for sure, elsewhere maybe...it's already selling great.

[deadchucky]

I really don't care all i want is bring more JRPG 💘

[beereal360]

3 out of 4 ps4 games are remakes. Smh