FF7 Revelation Director Rules Out Another Remake, Wants a Grand-Scale Original RPG Next

Naoki Hamaguchi is done with remakes. The Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director told both Game Informer and Bloomberg that after twelve years on the FF7 Remake trilogy, his next project will be an original grand-scale RPG, not another retread of a classic. He left the door open on whether it will carry the Final Fantasy name.

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation ships Spring 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch 2, and PC simultaneously, according to Square Enix's official announcement. Unlike the first two entries in the trilogy, there is no timed PlayStation exclusivity window. The game closes out a project that, as Video Games Chronicle notes, was first announced at E3 2015, making Revelation the end of a 12-year undertaking for Hamaguchi and his team.

Hamaguchi's Statements on Future Projects

The Final Fantasy 6 remake question came up, as it usually does. Hamaguchi acknowledged in his Game Informer interview that the community noise around a potential FF6 remake is hard to miss, though Square Enix PR was quick to frame any discussion of it as purely hypothetical. His answer was direct: "A Final Fantasy VI Remake or any other remake, it could be me, or it could be someone else. Personally, I think that it might be in better hands if it went to another creator in Square Enix." He then told Bloomberg flatly that his next project is "not going to be a remake."

What he does want is scope. "In terms of what I personally want to do, obviously, I think my next creative work is also going to be a JRPG," Hamaguchi told Game Informer. He mentioned the possibility of a smaller AA title, a new mainline Final Fantasy, or an entirely new AAA franchise, per Bloomberg. The common thread is original IP over legacy revival.

Team Continuity After Revelation

Hamaguchi also raised the question of what happens to the development team once Revelation ships. At Square Enix, teams typically disband when a title wraps and reassemble from scratch for whatever comes next. The FF7 Remake series avoided that pattern because it ran as a continuous production across three games. Whether that same team follows him to his next project is not settled. He said he would "love to leverage the know-how and insights" the team built, but Square Enix's broader organizational needs factor into those decisions, which is a polite way of saying it is not his call alone.

Hamaguchi has also signaled openness to post-launch DLC for Revelation if player interest is strong enough, pointing to the Intergrade expansion for the first game as the model. Spin-off properties like Dirge of Cerberus were mentioned as potential territory. None of that is confirmed, and Revelation itself does not have a specific release date yet beyond Spring 2027.