Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Director Says He “Did His Best” to Fight for a Physical Release

Remaining Fantasy 7 Revelation is getting a bodily version, and it appears director Naoki Hamaguchi needed to argue for it. He instructed Radio Times that he pushed Sq. Enix for a boxed launch, whereas admitting the product lineup is the publishing workforce’s name. On PS5 and Xbox Collection X, the disc reportedly works as a key disc that holds the opening and downloads the remainder, and the Swap 2 will get a game-key card. The sport launches on April 8, 2027. Here is what Hamaguchi mentioned:

This present day, as we have been speaking about, there’s a variety of stress for disc-less editions, digital editions, and I used my place to place forth an argument for the bodily model as a lot as doable. I utterly perceive there are these on the market who might not likely agree with that path or approve of that path. However I might simply say that I hope you perceive that I utterly see the place you are coming from, and that I did my finest.

Hamaguchi beforehand mentioned the sport is expected to need around 200 GB of storage, and he instructed IGN that matching Rebirth’s two-disc setup would have meant compromising on constancy. Sony, in the meantime, introduced in July that it’ll stop producing discs for new PlayStation games from January 2028, although discs still bring in a big chunk of revenue for PlayStation’s prime exclusives. As commendable as Hamaguchi’s push is, the end result remains to be a bodily launch that does not have the complete recreation on it, which most likely tells us bodily media as we all know it’s on its method out.