Sq. Enix has revealed that Remaining Fantasy 7 Remake Half 2 will probably be unique to the PS5, due to the brand new console’s SSD pace.
Half 2 – which has the confirmed title of “Remaining Fantasy 7 Rebirth” is the second recreation in Sq.’s remake trilogy although, in contrast to its predecessor, it can skip PS4 at launch.
With the sequel on account of launch in Winter 2023, we’ll doubtless see loads of new releases shun last-gen editions working on the PS4 and Xbox One. Veteran Remaining Fantasy producer, Yoshinori Kitase, elaborated on this in an interview with Japanese publication, Gamer (translated by Gematsu):
It’s unique to PlayStation 5 due to the graphical high quality, after all, in addition to SSD entry pace. For the reason that journey unfolds in an enormous world after the escape from Midgar, loading stress is an excessive bottleneck. We felt we would have liked the specs of PlayStation 5 to beat that and journey the world comfortably.
SSD speeds and fast load occasions have been key promoting factors for the present era of dwelling consoles. Nevertheless, whereas Microsoft’s new Xbox techniques additionally boast SSD storage, Sq. Enix hasn’t outlined any plans for the Remaining Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy to seem on these platforms. That is doubtless on account of an exclusivity take care of Sony, although we did see each FF7R and its Yuffie-led enlargement launch on PC.
Since dropping a brand new trailer for Remaining Fantasy 7 Remake Half 2 in the course of the authentic recreation’s twenty fifth anniversary occasion, extra particulars surrounding the sequel have emerged. It’s been confirmed that Rebirth will take gamers past the partitions of Midgar, although the order through which you go to areas will differ in comparison with Cloud’s PS1 journey. This will lead some gamers to imagine that components have been lower although Sq. assures followers this received’t be the case.
We’ve but to see any gameplay from the sequel although it can carry over the identical techniques. Precisely how participant development will switch between components has but to be detailed, neither is there any data on how open world Half 2 will probably be.