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darkknightkryta on 27 November 2011
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I'll say what everyone is dancing around. Final Fantasy 7 remake on the 3DS will look like ass. Graphics have gotten a lot better and to be frank would you want Final Fantasy 7 remake looking like Final Fantasy X/XII or would you rather it look like Final Fantasy XIII? If you're going to take the time to remake your highest selling game you damn well better put all your resources and do a good job and putting the game on the 3DS wouldn't do that.

First, I would like to clarify that I really don't think it's FF7 (if the rumor is even true at all).

That said, there is a reason why a FF7 remake (port?) would end up on the 3DS instead of an HD console. It would be the same logic that lead Capcom to put MHTri on the Wii instead of the PS3 - development time and money. SE went on record quite a few times that a FF7 remake would take forever (in development time). So where wouldn't it take forever? Perhaps on the 3DS.

But, as I wrote initially, I don't think it's FF7.

It probably isn't and that doesn't change the fact that a remake of Square's highest selling game deserves the highest possible treatment.  It's not like we're discussing the remake of a second tier game, or a remake of a 2D based game.  We're discussing a remake of Square's flagship game, it was a game changer to say the least.

I understand what you are saying, but by roughly the same logic, with MH being Capcom's flagship franchise in Japan, MHTri shouldn't have come to  the Wii and MH3G and MH4 shouldn't be coming to the 3DS... Yet they are, so if they could, so could FF7.

When Monster Hunter Tri switched over, Monster Hunter wasn't the beast it was, and the PS3 wasn't doing so hot either.  The PS3 and 360 are both doing well now, if they were doing how they are there's a good chance Monster Hunter Tri would still have been on the PS3.  As far as Monster Hunter 4 goes, I'm sure NIntendo had something to do with that cause, to risk sales, is a bad move by Capcom.

But this doesn't contradict what I am saying, if anything it reinforces it - if it happened with MH4, it could happen with a FF7 remake.

I could imagine something like the following:

SE: There is strong demand for a FF7 remake, but it would take us years and years and a huge budget to port it to HD, making this project unrealistic (not my words, I recall someone from SE actually saying something like this a year ago) . What shall we do? We are leaving money on the table... Wii? Nope, porting would be too difficult again, with unknown results. DS? Not strong enough. 3DS or Vita? Hmm.... Vita is an unknown and oh, MH is coming to 3DS, and oh, 3DS sales are picking up, now let's see now if Nintendo offer us some incentive as well.

Nintendo: yup.

SE: ok let's do it.

Ramifications such as fan outrage? Already happened with FFXIII. And if a little effort is put into it then no, while not HD, FF7 won't look like ass on the 3DS. I don't know if you have seen games on the 3DS, but the 3D effect when used properly adds something that makes games look so much better than the 2d shots you see of them.

Of course a FF7 remake could end up on Vita and not 3DS, all I am saying is that the above is a very possible scenario.

 

Compared to what the game can look like, yes it will look like ass.  And to be frank, I wouldn't even care if the game was a Wii U exclusive.  Like whatever business decision they decide to make is their business decision.  And about Monster Hunter, again is a bit different, cause most of its sales come from handhelds.  Monster Hunter isn't a game that focuses on story and story telling.  Final Fantasy wouldn't be what it is without its stories, it's the main reason there's so much hate/love for every release in the series.  And as I said before, Final Fantasy is Square's flagship title (Street Fighter 2 is Capcom's if you wanna know, and Street Fighter 4 and Street Fighter 2 HD got proper treatment), to put a game that people are just gonna play for its story on a console that won't do that story justice compared to other consoles, is just wrong.