The latest releases of the Remaining Fantasy Pixel Remasters have finally given a brand new viewers the chance to play the unique six Remaining Fantasy video games on fashionable consoles. However whereas the video games are at the moment out there on PlayStation and Nintendo Change, Sq. Enix would actually like to get them engaged on a 3rd platform, and no, I am not speaking concerning the Xbox. I am speaking about Remaining Fantasy 14.
Talking at a press convention at Remaining Fantasy Fan Fest 2023, director and producer Naoki Yoshida (often known as Yoshi-P) mentioned that he is been for a while within the thought of FF14 gamers with the ability to play the Pixel Remasters both by way of the Gold Saucer amusement park in recreation, or by way of participant housing.
Nonetheless, the characteristic has confirmed extraordinarily difficult to implement, because of the Pixel Remasters already operating on “middleware,” successfully a software program program intermediary that lets an working system do one thing it is not usually in a position to do.
“So as a result of it is operating on a middleware, if you wish to implement that into 14, you’d need to construct one other system that may play again the middleware inside the sport,” Yoshi-P mentioned, in response to 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 characteristic working, it might really 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 come back, a mysterious T-shirt, and an unlucky rebuke of Blitzball followers.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Received a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.