This Explains A LOT With Final Fantasy 9 Remake 

SquareEnix is my favorite Japanese publisher/studio along with Fromsoft, i really hope they get their sht together because there is a finite number of failures any given company can take. A game industry without SE would suck

Outsourcing both FF7R originally and FF9R is so wild

How do I contact SE to politely ask them for no plot ghosts? 👻

I can’t stop looking at NSP’s right arm being so light while he’s so tanned😂

They may also be waiting on Switch 2 to be revealed for an announcement as well since I can see FF9R being super successful there

If this game was in turn based and people don't buy this more than remake and xvi i will be PISSED, brutally upset, because the fans every fucking time ask for turn based, i'm tired of this discourse, let's see how this ends. FFIX is my fav, better they do something good!

Keep it smaller scale, keep it faithful: that's what I hope to see from FFIX. Rebirth an Remake were great but I recognize a lot of older players don't like the story changes and I don't need them either (though I liked them).

Could you imagine what an amazing switch 2 launch title this would be? Not exclusive just same date launch.

im so glad they went the route to do FF7R in house, cloud’s original model always looked so sickly to me. not to mention we got such an amazing game as a result

If i can get this game on switch 2 i will be more than happy, 9 is my favorite in the series and getting a remake of it, action or turn based is more than welcomed. Btw, has anybody told you that you have a great voice for this?.

I am ready. Very ready. 20 something years ready.

If it's a traditional remake, then I am buying it twice.

I will buy multiple copies of this game if they do it right. I will buy ALL the merch. ALL THE THINGS. I'm replaying OG for the millionth time right now.

I don’t know about y’all but I’m anxious as hell to find out what voice actors they are going to hire for these roles. I have a few set voices in my head and I really hope they are at least close. 😅

No surprise that SE fumbled the start of two Remake projects. I also can’t not see FFIXR selling well since it’ll be releasing on everything.

Apparently on the live letter for XIV yoshi p said he’s not working on a ff9 remake and he even said to those who are hearing rumors of a FF9 remake to make sure your sources are true. He said it himself so I will be waiting until then when they announce there next game themselves!

They should let the guys behind the Memoria project have a hand in it.

If 9 is turn based the game will struggle to sell over 1M

If this is a turn based remake, I'll be picking it up day one.

Midori said after this that before getting ff9 remake back to in house development the game was been developed to also run on current Switch. So its very possible that is a more ''light'' game. Like the Trials of Mana remake or the new Visions of Mana. And less super big and realistic like ff7 remake.

I'm willing to put in the work even before release. For one, it sounds like they are handling it right, but the risk is so much lower than the reward if it ends up being good. If that game is good, don't you worry - I'll do what I did with BG3 and outside of spreading the good word, a ton of my friends will suddenly have it in their library. Magically.

Let's not forget that SqEnix also outsourced the FF11 Mobile Remake to Nexon, which eventually got cancelled. That one still stings. The screenshots they released were so beautiful. And I'm probably in the minority here thinking that FF9 doesn't really need a remake, I feel like that game still holds up pretty well compared to other FFs. But that being said, it's still gunna be a day one purchase because SqEnix needs to keep hearing the message that we want more games like it.

Zidane, Garnet, Steiner, Vivi, Freya, Beatrix. Special game What was the villain's name, Kuja?

Remaking 9 gets us one step closer to them remaking 8 which I hope would be with 7R combat system

I just assumed it was a Switch 2 game or something

I think FF9R will be more similar to how Capcom approached RE2/RE4 Remake, where everything is familiar but slightly bigger, tuned up and built for modern hardware capabilities, the scale in the grand scheme of things is exactly the same. As opposed to FF7remake/rebirth which are a scaling up of the original story.

If 9 remake is just a reskin ill most likely pass if i want turn base ill just go play the original

FF9 could definitely use some combat improvements

The original Final Fantasy 10 and earlier FF titles realised that there was something to balancing the epic moments (often 1st/3rd person) and the mild moments (often top down) in between vs the modern FF epic action almost all the time trope that requires the world to become more lifeless and cookie cutter as you travel it, so if FF9 is a modern all in one game hybrid remake that is more like the older titles in scope and like them during major scenes it can go all out for those rarer moments in the game but overall would be the same scope and size then this could prove a best of both worlds concept worth proving. To take this even further though, imagine if they did this from now on for new FF titles and had say 3 in development at the same time over 3 year dev cycle and released them every year at the same time period imagine the free publicity and if you hate this years then just wait a year, they could then create mobile games, Netflix tv type deals, etc for any additional content, profit per sale would end up being higher I would think and yet much better brand loyalty and development. This is why every sequel, side game, remake parts beyond one game, did take from potential new mainline FF titles to a massive degree over the last 2 decades, but because those titles never got made we don't know what we missed out on.

I enjoyed Remake and Rebirth but I really hope they just keep this to one game, keep similar character models but cleaned up

I have thoughts: Why they keep outsourcing for the titles? Look at DQ VIII - IX, outsourced games that turned out pretty well, albeit they didn't have prior games to base off(I also want to note that Yuji Horii, even though he's the creator, he's freelanced, not associated with SQE or even previously Enix as a direct employee). In fact there are A LOT of games that they outsource on, including XV. I reserve that it might not even be that the companies are doing a poor job, just not where they vision the games, and I look at the initial VIIR announcements. I'm positive they wanted to work with CC because they had a working relationship with them already based on the mobile VII bike game and CC has experience cranking out episodic titles in .hack and GU. I look at the differences between what was shown, between initial demo and what Remake ended up being and even Rebirth to an extent, and from my eye, it's not huge. THAT said, it's equally possible that some of the issues they had with CC development are the reasons we had texture issues in Remake along with continued lighting issues going into Rebirth. So as to why not have an announcement towards both IX and an outsourced company? EVERYONE FUCKING SHAT ALL OVER CC when it was announced they were moving away from that company, A COMPANY THEY STILL LISTED IN THE CREDITS OF VII REMAKE. To be clear that means, whatever work CC initially did, there was enough of it to still be worth crediting when everyone presumed SQE rebuilt the game from the bottom up after the announcement. Last part: Strong agree, the issue isn't solely on Multi-platforming like it's going to magically fix the monetary issue. I've been saying it everywhere, there's a reason why they've accepted deals for exclusivity, and part of it might just be their development process especially after what was mentioned by YoshiP on developing for a single platform. It's just easier, and probably the time saved was thought to recoup the development costs as well, allowing them to double dip potentially and release elsewhere. I think the development aspect of this becomes really telling when we look at, again, games like XV and KH3 with their releases. They aren't exclusives, and yet, they still couldn't release on PC within the same year, and it's especially jarring when KH3 was developed in Unreal, you'd assume it would be easier to release on PC but for whatever reason it wasn't released at the same time. At least with XV, we knew there were issues with development due to leaks, so it's understandable why it wasn't released on PC as well. Just my thoughts, based on Historics.

As long as they get rid of/streamline that chocobo scratch and sniff game, I’ll be happy. G-Whack! that was terminal game stopper. Mini games that dull the mind and shave the time of my good life expectancy need to be seriously addressed and reconsidered. As ol’ Yoda so eloquently put it “Square must unlearn what they have learned”

Im not 100% sold on this games existance but if its real i can die happy. This was my intro ff and still my favorite

skipping 8 is so frustrating

How would this game be broken up? Would it be if the game used a more cartoon style graphics as opposed to viir’s realistic? I feel like when it comes to travel locations ix was the longest game. But what takes up the most space in games today?

I will show up, I havn't even bought FF7rebirth yet, but I'd show up for a turn based FF9 remake.

They should outsource either FF17 or Tactics to Larian

I hope that this game is released to Switch to boost the sales

Not really about two years ago there were rumours of it getting moved in house

If it stays faithful I'm double dipping

The one thing I don't really like is that some fans are blaming the outsourcing studio for the games being delayed. CC2 is no slouch as a studio. Heck I'd argue their current self published trilogy of RPGs Fuga Melodies of Steel is more impressive than FF7R as it's a really low budget series, $2-3 million per game, and is all getting released in the amount of time it took Rebirth to come out after Remake. completely bucking the trend that AAA studio games need to cost $100 million+ and take 5 to 7 years to make. That on top of their work on Naruto, DBZ, JoJo, and Demon Slayer games over the past decade+ is nothing to scoff at either. Though I would like their .hack series to return someday and I completely blame Bandai for letting that amazing series die. I think the issue between these two companies for FF7R was office politics and Nomura wanting more control over the project. Partnerships like this fall through all the time, but it's not entirely the outsourcing studio that's at fault for that happening. If the outsourcing studio for FF9R gets revealed please do not blame them for the game getting delayed. This stuff happens and I think what's best is what happened between Square and CC2 in that they moved on and continued doing their own thing.

I am buying this game regardless only cause I have paid for this game on PSX, Android, iOS, PC and MacOS. So why not once more lol this is like my life with FFVI.

plot-twist, it'll have pokemon brilliant-diamond shinning pearl style graphics

I love FF7R, but I’ll take an old school tunr based FF9 remake whoch will be released completely in one go over anything else. I miss playing games like that.

Ff9 remake should play just like FF7 Rebirth, then we be sitting pretty

This rumor is old... several other channels reported on this like a year ago

They sent ffxi to get the remake treatment with nexon, after 4 years it was canceled.

Also its 3. Square put the remake for final fantasy 11 mobile on an outside company and it failed. JS

It's a little saddening to know ff9 isn't going to get the same love as ff7 I think 9 is a little better then 7 personally but I'll take whay we can get. Hopefully it will at least look a lot better then wjaybthey been doing with the mana series

Please god, let it be a remaster, not a remake. FF7 "remake" isn't FF7. I don't want them to fuck up FF9 also.

Doesn't explain why FF Tactics remaster hasnt been announced

I need to purchase 9 remake so I can push my narrative that new FF is dumb let’s GOOOOO😂

Outsourcing going wrong doesn't mean they should never do it again, it just means that the need to reevaluate how they approach it.

Lmao... They outsourced FFXI Remake too and broke off with the company. This is actually the third time

I do not welcome atb gauge for FF9 remake. I have og FF9 for that. If I wanted to spam shock and dragon crest I'll go play the original.

I don't know why you're not already past 100k.

As a traditionalist final fantasy fan, I will be there for this game at launch.

I don't know why but I have always had a good feeling that the 9 Remake will be good despite how long it's taken.

I want this game SO badly, praying its faithful to the ART STYLE. My favorite game of all time.

As a general rule of thumb all FF games in the mainline franchise (be they remake or not) DESERVE the attention and focus IN HOUSE. Always! No exceptions!

Apparently they don't wanna do a FF8 remake. to me its the one the needs a revamp more than any of the others.

I really do not want a turn based combat system in big 2024 and onwards. The FF7 Remake battle system should be the blueprint for future FF games. Having a turn based combat system is just so regressive.

I wonder why square does not get the Octopath team to do a some of the remakes of the older FF. I think that team could do something nasty GOOD with FF 1-6

If IX does get remade, I'd like to see the Trance system be tweaked a bit and not require the player to "use it or lose it" randomly. I'd like to be able to save Trance status until I want to use a Trance command, similar to how VII's Limit Break status didn't go away until the player chose to the Limit Break on the character who currently had that.

If this is a legit remake of IX that keeps the turn based ATB, I’ll preorder the most expensive version of this thing the moment it’s officially announced.

I'm honestly glad they did this and took it inhouse. The game will be better for it.

I choose to believe that the version that was being worked on was probably fine until the fan made demo dropped last year showing a proof of concept. That demo was so well received I have a feeling Square felt they had to go back to the drawing board as the version that was previously being worked on was probably not up to the same standard which would have raised a fair few eyebrows

I just want Final Fantasy IX R to have a faster battle system .

It's just not a good idea to make final fantasy episodic. FF 7 remake will take about 10 years or more to be complete. It would have been better to just re work the scenarios and make a single game, since they already made so many changes anyway.

I bet 90% of these babies crying about turn-based haven't purchased some of the excellent turn based RPGs Square Enix has put out recently.

I really hope the FF9 remake is just an Crisis Core Reunion situation where it's just the same game but expanded, polished, and remade.

I am ALL OVER this! FFIX is my favorite game of all time and I will be one of the first in line! Not for preorder, though. I don't do preorders of any game.

if they do a traditional turn based im buying 5 copies!

What if CU3 is now in charge of FF9 remake, and that's why YoshiP brought back Sakaguchi, as a consultant maybe.

Considering that FF9 was supposed to be a return to basics for Final Fantasy, changing the battle system would be pointless. The game was made as a return to a more traditional style Final Fantasy, unlike FF7 and FF8 that had released before it

We don’t need remakes we need a Good original FF game

Bro it's 3 times. XI was getting a mobile remake by a Chinese dev until Square had the same appraisal and outright cancelled it

Hopefully we don’t get any Whispers or timeline-time travel BS with this remake!

If cyberconnect 2 was going to make a real remake and not this bullshit time goes spin off then I don't care I would rather had that version to be honest. Not sure if the storyboard was theres to control or not.

As long as Square puts as much love and dedication into this remake as with FF7...which I doubt, but I'll be mad if we get a half-assed product, especially in the midst of a highly acclaimed 7R run. Really not expecting this to also be divided into 3, although it really could be just as easily as 7 was. They could even flesh out some bits that got shortchanged in the OG, like Freya's story, or the relative downtime of disc 3 where you find a whole new continent and barely anything happens there. Oh and if there's not more Beatrix I'll have to riot.

I fear an unambitious shot for shot remake is coming our way. I'll pass if all they do is upgrade graphics to Mana remake level

I'm going to buy a copy for every system I own.

When you think about, all these potential remake ideas would indeed be FF7R levels of scope: FF6 Remake would be too complex given there are 14 playable characters FF8 Remake would need tons of rework and refactoring from the original’s gameplay. Especially the Junction System FF10 Remake is practically less urgent as the original already has voice acting and good graphics. A 10-3 is most plausible but that is a high priority task there. FF9 is easily the least problematic remake out of all them. Not only that, but the game is adored by fans, it’s a perfect opportunity for a mainline title to return to turn based, and the scope of the game is not as large as FF7 Remake

It’s not as simple as just everybody that wanted that suddenly coming back. What we need to understand is that fans of the old school games slowly started to leave since 12 came out. Disappointment after disappointment is what made a lot of them never ever come back. My best buddy was a huge fan and he loves how Rebirth looks but he just doesn’t feel attracted to play it and seems to be hooked on Elden Ring and From Soft games now. They just didn’t feed their fans as they were supposed to and lost them. That’s it.

I do wonder how the art style for FF9R will be, I highly doubt they will try and emulate the CGI look of the characters faithfully. Even if I kinda like that aestetic, I do think it will be very offputting to many people.

The amount of FF7 Remake/Rebirth hate train on your community is insane lol. Why are they all so butthurt about?😂

Why are you reporting fake news? Here's more fake news, FF9 was never intended to be remade, the Nvidia leak was actually a typo. If it's in development now it wasn't because of the Nvidia leak directly, it was because the fanfare the Nvidia leak created caught SE attention. Also whenever SE outsources their IP, it's because they have no interest or faith in the project. Initially they felt the same with FF7R, but it seem after some deliberation about how CC2 was handling the project, they reconsidered and took the project inhouse, also Rebirth and the Sequel were never in the plans, they were initially going to end it at Midgar.

As somebody who is only just getting into the FF series, I’d much rather see a FF9 Remake have more of an Action RPG focus similar to FF7 Remake. It’s just a much more fun and satisfying gameplay style to me and I really think if Square just kind of kept and improved upon it further going forward, they would have a really solid definitive gameplay style. I’m not really that curious about indulging other people’s nostalgia with a more “faithful” ATB system, unless it was changed up significantly in a way that expands the experience. Otherwise why not simply just remaster the game again? No hate to anybody who loves the classic FF turn based style, I get it, I’m just saying that if you really want this thing to succeed, you need to rely on more people purchasing it than just the diehards, and Remake pulled in people who hadn’t even played the original 7. It doesn’t need to be one for one on gameplay, certainly not in story direction, but at least make it have a broader appeal than just “yeah this one is for the old school guys.”

It's my opinion that final fantasy 1 through 6 including, could be remade, quite well and fast, using only FF 14 assets.

This year is the 25th anniversary of FF IX so I'm hoping they at least announce it this year, even if it doesn't come out until next year. That being said, as long as they keep the original battle system I am okay with it being like the Trials of Mana remake. Edit: My mistake; next year is the game's 25th Anniversary. This year it's Final Fantasy VIII.

I love how you point out that rumors are lies until they are confirmed. Everyone else just says they are rumors and don't give that much emphasis to the potential untruth side.

PARASITE EVE WHERE ARE YOU??? 😭😭😭😭 Can they do something other than final fantasy remakes?

We will be buying especially if it is multiplaform 👀

One of the best things about FFIX was that after VII and VIII(both of them I love), IX was a return to a more traditional final fantasy story. And for sure, day one purchase for me. Especially if it comes to the switch/switch2

I think there is just this mainstream expectation that everything has to be AAA to be good and considered high quality standards in the industry but that isn't the case at all for many different video game publishers. Quite frankly I think the kinds of games, these remasters and smaller scale revivals of classic franchises, 2DHD remakes are what is keeping the industry afloat and there working. They don't take near as long to develop, they also make alot of money in sales and the return investment is so much greater then these AAA projects. The profit loss in dev AAA just isn't worth it and the time investment it takes, thats why these guys have to spoil us and market games for the next 5 years somehow, to get there annual revenue. Nintendo figured that out along time ago.

I'm still so not normal about the possibility of this FF9 Remake, I love it dearly and I HOPE its good! I'm so excited for what's to come with this title and what they do with it. CROSSING MY FINGERS ITS TURNED BASED TOO If it is, if it meets atleast 1 of my hopes, you bet your ass i'm sticking with this project through til the end.

i think it's not announced because it's a switch 2 launch game

This game DOES NOT NEED A REMAKE!! The art style will not translate well to modern graphics. The charm comes from the era it came from. Go play the original it’s still a very good game

I literally cant sit still wondering when the official reveal for this is going to happen

when i read your title of the video, i had a suspicion that it was outsourced and then scraped to be done in-house, and lo and behold...lol. it does explain a lot also, yeah for those who dont want ps5 exclusives and turn-based combat should really vote with their wallets on this one if it is turn-based and multiplatform from launch.