{"id":767712,"date":"2026-09-11T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767712\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T22:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:20:10","slug":"final-fantasy-7-revelation-director-says-square-enix-would-have-to-compromise-the-quality-of-the-final-chapter-to-ship-the-game-fully-on-disc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767712\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director says Square Enix would have to compromise “the quality of the final chapter” to ship the game fully on disc"},"content":{"rendered":"

Physical versions of Final Fantasy 7<\/a> Revelation require a download anyway because Square Enix<\/a> would’ve had to compromise the game in some fashion to contain the entire mammoth adventure in a disc. At least, that’s the reasoning series director Naoki Hamaguchi has given.<\/p>\n

Anyone sitting in the venn diagram middle of Final Fantasy 7 fan and physical games collector might have gone from extremely happy to kinda bummed earlier this week. The third and final part of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake<\/a> trilogy is shipping in a physical format on all three major consoles (hurray), but you’ll still need to download additional game data<\/a> to get going.<\/p>\n

“Each platform has limitations when it comes to physical media capacity, but we believed that compromising the quality of the final chapter in order to achieve a fully on-disc release would ultimately not be in the best interest of many fans,” said Remake trilogy director Naoki Hamaguchi in an online statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We understand that this decision may not meet everyone’s expectations. Even so, in today’s market, where the industry is steadily moving toward a disc-less future, we believe there is real value in being able to offer a physical edition at all,” he added.<\/p>\n

Fans have since put forth their own online counters, pointing out that both Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth<\/a> launched on two discs that together contained the entire game. Theoretically, Square Enix could’ve repeated the trick a third time and had Final Fantasy 7 Revelation come out with multiple discs stuffed into a plastic package.<\/p>\n

As it stands now, physical PS5 and Xbox Series X boxes include one disc, while Nintendo Switch 2<\/a> copies contain a controversial Game-Key card – all three require an internet connection for an extra install.<\/p>\n

Physical releases have been a hot topic ever since Sony announced plans to stop manufacturing new PlayStation games<\/a> on discs starting in 2028. That PR disaster persisted through the entire summer and is still chomping at Sony’s heels, if reactions to the company’s recent State of Play show<\/a> were any indication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Physical versions of Final Fantasy 7 Revelation require a download anyway because Square Enix would’ve had to compromise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}