Square Enix arguably broke the internet about 10 years ago when it finally revealed it was working on a long-anticipated remake of Final Fantasy 7. Now, in 2025, two parts of this trilogy project have arrived on PlayStation and PC, with ports expected on Switch 2 and Xbox in the near future.<\/p>\n
Speaking with a number of outlets, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth\u2019s director Naoki Hamaguchi shed some light on FF7 Remake\u2019s upcoming arrival on Switch 2 and Xbox, what it took to get the game running on less powerful hardware, how Rebirth is shaping up on Switch 2, and which Final Fantasy he\u2019d be eager to see remade next.<\/p>\n
The key to the Switch 2\u2019s FF7R port was nailing the lighting <\/p>\n
Speaking to ScreenRant<\/a>, Hamaguchi zeroed in on \u201ccharacter expressions\u201d and \u201clighting\u201d as being essential to delivering a quality experience on Nintendo\u2019s hybrid console:<\/p>\n Our aim was to align more towards the lightning we see in the PS5 version, and then we also kind of balance this by aligning more towards the sort of switch to post-effect and fog. And in this way the user is not really able to make out a huge difference<\/p>\n In an interview with Inverse<\/a>, Hamaguchi said that a Switch 2 port seemed likely early on once \u201cNintendo first shared with [Square Enix] the new hardware [\u2026] the thought came to me that Final Fantasy 7 can likely run on these specs.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Hamaguchi, the Xbox version was already in the works before the team got their first look at the Switch 2 hardware. And, contrary to what you may think, the underpowered Series S wasn\u2019t much of an issue. Though the team has run into some memory problems on Series S, Hamaguchi still describes Microsoft\u2019s budget console as \u201cquite high in terms of specs.\u201d<\/p>\n FF7 Remake isn\u2019t the only part of the remake project headed to Switch 2. The more graphically ambitious Rebirth is also expected to arrive at some point in the future. Hamaguchi described Rebirth as being in a \u201cworking state\u201d on Switch 2. \u201cOur desire was to be able to ultimately offer and serve all of the platforms available,\u201d Hamaguchi told ScreenRant. He declined to say, however, whether or not the third installment will arrive as a multiplatform title on day one.<\/p>\n Development on part three of FF7 remake\u2019s trilogy is \u2018going extremely well\u2019 <\/p>\n The FF7 remake project is still ongoing, with a yet-unnamed third entry on the horizon. Hamaguchi describes development as \u201cgoing extremely well.\u201d \u201cA lot of the content is already playable,\u201d he told Automaton<\/a>, \u201cand the game\u2019s direction and form are firmly set in place. Right now the team is united around refining everything.\u201d<\/p>\n FF7\u2019s remakes have certainly impressed a number of fans, but concerns over the sales of the last entry and the general direction of the various plot changes do remain. For his part, Hamaguchi has described Rebirth as \u201cdoing very well on both PS5 and PC\u201d in terms of sales. He also shared with ScreenRant how the recent live-action Beauty and the Beast remake inspired his decisions in reinterpreting FF7 for the remake trilogy:<\/p>\n When development [on FF7 Remake] was happening, the Beauty and the Beast movie remake was released. That movie, the original, was one I watched as a child. And then they now had the live-action that\u2019s a remake\u2026I saw the overall story and the world itself was not altered, but it was completely deconstructed in a way to really entertain today\u2019s viewers, which was deeply satisfying.<\/p>\n