The producer of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth says the team is quite “satisfied” with the game’s overall sales, but seems to imply that part 3 can’t afford to release only on PS5.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth may not have met Square Enix’s sales expectations, but the game‘s producer still says it’s satisfied with them.

Did you know that Final Fantasy 7 is the second best-selling PS1 title of all time? You might not have guessed it, considering that JRPGs don’t sell as well as other genres nowadays, but no, it was a very popular game; There’s a reason it’s the one getting a trilogy of remakes. Comparatively, however, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth may not be doing as well, as earlier this year it was reported that both it and Final Fantasy 16 had fallen below Square Enix’s sales expectations. That, in turn, led the developer to shift gears toward cross-platform releases for its games, and it seems like that’s something Rebirth producer Yoshinori Kitase is also keeping in mind.

Speaking to IGN Brazil (translated by Final Weapon), Kitase talked about Rebirth’s sales essentially stating that they weren’t that bad, really, but that they weren’t good enough to stick with just one platform. “Although we are pleased to have reached a certain number of sales, with the current state of modernization of games, we cannot be exclusive to a single platform,” Kitase explained. “I think we need [be able to] offer the game to as many players as we can.”

Obviously, that’s not a guarantee that Remake Part 3 will be available for PC or Xbox on day one – Remake and Rebirth aren’t even available on Microsoft’s platform yet – but it does seem to suggest that Square Enix is ​​thinking hard about making the trilogy. more readily available than just on PS5. In fact, Rebirth is coming to PC next month, less than a year after its initial release on PlayStation, but those of you hoping to play on Xbox will have your fingers crossed for some sort of announcement for a while longer.