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Square Enix wants to bring Final Fantasy games to PC

Final Fantasy series producer says Square Enix is 'very interested' in bringing console-exclusive series to PC.

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The Final Fantasy series may have a future on PC, series producer Yoshinori Kitase has revealed.

Speaking in a recent interview with Eurogamer, Kitase stated that the early stages of development for the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy saw the team working on PC, before porting the game to consoles.

The producer revealed that while it was an option for Square Enix to make a PC version, the team ultimately "decided against it". Kitase cited the "market situation" and "complex issues like security" as reasons why a PC version of the game did not go ahead.

However, the recent release of Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy 8 on digital platform Steam proved to be successful, renewing the company's interest in the platform.

"It's an early stage for us," Kitase said. "We haven't got an awful lot of experience in this field. So when we have more know-how and experience in this market, we would be very interested."

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII was released earlier this month. The game marks the final instalment in the Final Fantasy XIII universe, and concludes the story of protagonist Lightning.

The newest entry into the Final Fantasy series, Final Fantasy XV, was announced last year. The game has been confirmed for a PS4 and Xbox One release, but Square Enix is reportedly undecided on releasing a PC version.

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i can totally see them porting their older ff games over (from ff xii and earlier) but i doubt we'll see ff xv on pc. how many people would even have a rig powerful enough to run that game optimally anyways?

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@Xristophoros Ya right, most pc gamers can run the game perfectly fine. Mid tier pc's destroy the ps4 in performance, why exactly can't we run this game? Furthermore with nvidia maxwell coming up making huge improvements to graphics tech it will be a total non issue. The new 750ti are $150 and can beat an xbox one system ( Xbone can't play titanfall on 792p 60 fps but this card can play close to 60fps at 1080p). The 750ti is just a sample of the next nvidia cards coming out, it still uses 28nm dies, when the 20nm dies come up we will see massive improvement in graphics power and low cost. Most people have decent pc's at home they can just not spend money on a console and pop in a mid end gpu and they can beat the next gen consoles performance like nothing.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Well, they could always put it on low settings and get the "console experience" at the very least

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<< LINK REMOVED >> A 5 year old PC can go toe to toe with a PS4, so almost an entire console generation of PCs can run it, so yeah a lot.

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Go ahead Square Enix, I've been hoping for PC versions of Final Fantasy games since a long time ago, I'll be ditching consoles though, they're just cheaper systems while I can do much more on PC!... ^_^

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<< LINK REMOVED >> If others developers just follow suit like Square and release all their games on Steam, it's the end of console gaming for me, the only reason I still play console is for these exclusives, but PC is WAY better :)

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You said it, in fact my only games for PS3 are Final Fantasy XIII, XIII-2, Eternal Sonata and soon XIII-3 and Final Fantasy X/X-2, everything else I have it on PC!... *_*

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Square Enix.. you might as well just make all consoles games to be on PC and get surprised that the sales will kill consoles.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Unlikely sense the bulk of JRPG players are console players, especially outside the US.

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I guess why not since they seem to love porting this series to everything imaginable. Honestly don't see the point in bringing games that go all the way back to the NES to PC now. But I guess future games could be PC no problem. I'd rather see them focusing on making the series actually good again by getting back to basics with new installments instead of spending so much time on porting to every platform and rehashing what they've already done. But whatever.

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Don't bother porting XIII or any of the garbage sequels. FF7-X and maybe XII. That's all you need to worry about for PC gamers.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> thats your opinion and many don't agree with you. The old ff games can be played on emulators so i don't give two shits about whether they come to pc or not.

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FF10 on PC would be sick.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I'm doing that right now hehe

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FF XV ON PC!!!!

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Good decision... these are some of the best FF games ever... and 13 got better with each sequel.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> O.O

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Square Enix needs to make their games compatible with Mac OS. I would buy FF7 in a heartbeat if I can play it on my Macbook Pro. I don't have a PC with windows.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Your Mac can run Windows via BootCamp, which is what every other Mac gamer uses to play games, rather than complaining about there not being a special Mac version.

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Uhmmm....I remember buying Final Fantasy 7 on PC back in the 90s....it's not like they didn't do it before....

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I had to buy it 3 times lol

just to keep it once.

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Hah... don't bother Squarenix... the reason the steam releases of FF7 and 8 were good is because... well they were good games... You bring those pathetic excuses for games that are FF12 onwards and you'll see it's not that PC gamers are starved for FF titles... it's that they have no intention of buying garbage.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> 12 was great, lay off the crack. Its one of the best selling and highest rated FF games of all time. The downfall started with the XIII crap.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >>FFXII was an overall good game but it did lay the groundwork for the ultimate direction the series went with FFXIII.

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@BigAl519 @Ayato_Kamina_1Nah , started with 12 for me , lot s of people like me blindly bought it because it's a FF game .

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I don't care what they do regarding the PC, as long as the games still release on consoles and we get remakes of FFVIII and IX in the process.

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tosses money at the screen yes they sould bring ffXV to PC :P also if they want to bring the rest of the older ff games to steam that would be nice :D

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well they did put old games on pc but really the series belongs to console gamers so really that sqaureEnix for you.

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Yes please.

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I am shocked. You mean SE wants to keep rereleasing its old games, the ones that are good because they can't create anything half decent anymore?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Yeah I know right. So its a Thursday then...

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What security issues?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> security issues with piracy, as if they can somehow find the magical drm that would work to prevent pirates from stealing the game..... they can't, at this point developers may as well just release steam DRM games and be done with it, you aren't going to prevent pirates from stealing your game, so why waste money trying to stop them.

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@OrgeLambart @drybones41 Kinda strange since piracy is a problem pretty much everywhere. It may be more of a problem on PC however there are quite a few devs who have no trouble. The Witcher for example still sold a lot of copies on PC. I just think the piracy problem does get blown out of proportion from time to time.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >>It's quite ignorant of them since there is console piracy as well and usually the games get cracked and put on torrent sides days before the actual game release date unlike the PC versions so they are talking out of their asses.

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If they brought all the pre-FF7 rpg's to the pc with achievement support, that would be amazing. And hopefully they don't stop with just the FF games. I'd love to see Chrono Trigger and Xenosaga too.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> yes yes yes yes, but on a side note i have all my cart games of old, on my emulator list, and play them with my ps3 controler lol. so i like the idea, they are just 15 years too late with it.....

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<< LINK REMOVED >>xenosaga is not a square enix game xenogear is the one that squaresoft has released

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very smart decision. sadly none of the newer ff games are any good and will only get slated even further by pc users. lets hope ff15 is a good one though.

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Just port the XV. Bury the XIIIth in the desert along with E.T.

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Good on you, Square.

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what square need to do in my opinion:

Make games aviliable for pc

a remake of the 7 (same battle/magic systheme , same story .. only whit updated graphics and add new summon, side story and maybe a better lvl sytheme like ff 10)

Revive the chronos series (Chronos trigger and cross was amazing games)

make a sword of mana for Pc/ console

make a final fantasy dissidia (not a port) for Pc / console

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Old dream.

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I want VI.

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I'm hoping that FF XV will be good but I dont like how the main character looks.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I find it hard to tell a man from a woman myself. The best character design to me was in FFXII. Best game too.

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