The latest releases of the Ultimate Fantasy Pixel Remasters have eventually given a brand new viewers the chance to play the unique six Ultimate Fantasy video games on fashionable consoles. However whereas the video games are at the moment out there on PlayStation and Nintendo Swap, 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 Ultimate Fantasy 14.
Talking at a press convention at Ultimate Fantasy Fan Fest 2023, director and producer Naoki Yoshida (often known as Yoshi-P) stated that he is been for a while within the concept of FF14 gamers with the ability to play the Pixel Remasters both by the Gold Saucer amusement park in recreation, or by participant housing.
Nevertheless, 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 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 stated, 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 stated, Yoshi-P continues to be very within the concept, 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 will truly equate to a launch of the Pixel Remasters on Xbox on condition 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.
