The latest releases of the Last Fantasy Pixel Remasters have ultimately given a brand new viewers the chance to play the unique six Last Fantasy video games on trendy consoles. However whereas the video games are presently obtainable on PlayStation and Nintendo Swap, Sq. Enix would actually like to get them engaged on a 3rd platform, and no, I am not speaking in regards to the Xbox. I am speaking about Last Fantasy 14.
Talking at a press convention at Last Fantasy Fan Fest 2023, director and producer Naoki Yoshida (referred to as Yoshi-P) mentioned that he is been for a while within the thought of FF14 gamers having the ability to play the Pixel Remasters both via the Gold Saucer amusement park in recreation, or via participant housing.
Nonetheless, the function has confirmed extraordinarily difficult to implement, as a result of Pixel Remasters already operating on “middleware,” successfully a software program program intermediary that lets an working system do one thing it is not usually capable of do.
“So as a result of it is operating on a middleware, if you wish to implement that into 14, you’d must construct one other system that may play again the middleware inside the sport,” Yoshi-P mentioned, in line with a quote picked up by Gamesradar. “So it is such as you’re constructing a system of a recreation to play a system of a recreation and it is simply this bizarre configuration.”
That mentioned, Yoshi-P continues to be very within the thought, and put out the decision for a “tremendous programmer” to step up and assist Sq. Enix out.
Funnily sufficient, if Sq. Enix ever did get this function working, it might truly equate to a launch of the Pixel Remasters on Xbox provided that FF14 was introduced for Xbox at Fan Fest this previous weekend, and is deliberate for launch in spring of subsequent 12 months after an open beta interval.
Fan Fest 2023 was a busy one, with loads of bulletins together with the brand new Dawntrail enlargement, a tease of future Sq. Enix x Xbox collaborations to return, a mysterious T-shirt, and an unlucky rebuke of Blitzball followers.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Obtained a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.
