Speaking in a recent interview with French YouTuber Julien Chièze, when asked about the possibility of a Final Fantasy 6 Remake, Kitase said that a hypothetical remake series split across multiple instalments would take twice as long to develop as the entirety of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy, something that he says Square Enix doesn’t have the resources for “at the moment”.

“If we were to remake Final Fantasy 6 in the same vein as FF7 Remake, it might take twice the amount of time it has taken to make the FF7 Remake series,” Kitase said (via @aitaikimochi on Twitter). “The volume we will need to work with is much more than FF7 and has more party characters too. We would probably need to prepare a lot of things, so I can’t imagine that to be a task we have the resources to take on at the moment.”

However, Kitase remarked that even within Square Enix, there are many that have asked about the possibility of developing a Final Fantasy 6 remake, which, if nothing else, he says he’s quite happy about.

“Many people even within the company have often asked whether we would consider an FF6 remake, and although I don’t have the answer, I am very happy to hear that,” he said.

Back in June, Kitase raised similar concerns over an FF6 remake, saying that such a project “would be difficult” to get greenlit.

As per leaks, however, there are plenty of other Final Fantasy remakes in the works. Allegedly, Square Enix is working on remakes of both Final Fantasy 9 and Final Fantasy 10, while it’s been claimed that a remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics is also in the works.

Meanwhile, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth launches for PS5 on February 29.

Recently, several key Final Fantasy developers were featured in an official roundtable discussion in celebration of the series’ 35th anniversary, and though the topic of a potential Final Fantasy 6 remake did come up, the answers we got might not necessarily be what fans would have hoped for.

Yoshinori Kitase, Square Enix executive and brand manager of Final Fantasy, acknowledged the demand for a Final Fantasy 6 remake, but said that the project would be a difficult one for Square Enix to take on.

“I think Final Fantasy 6 Remake would be difficult,” he said. “Final Fantasy 7 Remake is not yet finished, so I am not able to think about it. But for Final Fantasy 6, there are many Final Fantasy 6 fans in the company, and they often ask me, ‘when are we making 6?”

Series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi also chimed in, and remarked that owing to Final Fantasy 6’s age and its pixel-based graphics, a full-fledged, fully modernized remake would be quite a significant undertaking, should Square Enix choose to greenlight such a project.

Of course, for now, where Final Fantasy and remakes are concerned, all attention is squarely on Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, the second instalment in the FF7 remake trilogy, which is due out early next year.

Interestingly, however, if leaks are to be believed, there are plenty of other older Final Fantasy titles that will be getting modernizations of some variety in the near future. Not only has it been claimed that a remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics is in the works, leaks have also stated that Square Enix is working on ground-up remakes of Final Fantasy 9 and Final Fantasy 10.

Outside of remakes, series fans still have plenty to look forward to, with Final Fantasy 16 set to launch for PS5 on June 22.

Hironobu Sakaguchi also said that as FF6 is a pixel based game they would have to change the story and making it into CG would be very hard to do, but he then asked Kitase "Won't you release it a little sooner?" lol
Kitase said it is not easy.

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