For a long time now, PC gamers have been used to the Final Fantasy series treating their platform as somewhat secondary to the game\u2019s core console versions. There are some signs that may be starting to change, though, as director Naoki Hamaguchi has confirmed that the PC is now the \u201clead platform\u201d for development of the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy.<\/p>\n
In a recent interview with Automaton<\/a>, Hamaguchi clarified that the team takes the relatively common practice of creating visual assets for its multiplatform games by targeting \u201chigh-end environments first,\u201d then performing a \u201creduction\u201d for less powerful platforms. These days, that means \u201cour 3D assets are created at the highest quality level based on PC as the foundation,\u201d he said. Players have already noticed this graphical difference in the PC version of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Hamaguchi said, and \u201cour philosophy will not change for the third installment.\u201d<\/p>\n While PC gaming is only \u201cgradually expanding in Japan,\u201d Hamaguchi said the rapid growth in international PC gamers has led the company to \u201cdevelop assets with the broad PC market in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n The PC versions of recent Final Fantasy VII Remake games have sold well on Steam and the Epic Games Store, he added.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear if that means PC gamers will have to wait longer than console owners for future Final Fantasy games. The first Final Fantasy VII Remake didn\u2019t hit PCs until 19 months after the PlayStation 4 version<\/a>, and Rebirth was first available on PC 11 months after its PS5 launch. Elsewhere in the franchise, the PC versions of both Final Fantasy XVI<\/a> and Final Fantasy XV<\/a> didn\u2019t hit until over a year after their console counterparts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a long time now, PC gamers have been used to the Final Fantasy series treating their platform…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-488454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}