Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has recently announced that the game will be released on two discs, which came as a surprising revelation. The announcement was made at the end of a new story trailer that premiered during the first night of Summer Game Fest. The title card officially announced FF7 Rebirth’s updated release window and its two-disc format. The FF7 Remake trilogy has always aimed to surprise players with new additions and story changes, but this may be its biggest head-scratcher yet.
Although two-disc games are not entirely unheard of, they are not the norm either. Dual disc formats are a common strategy for Rockstar Games, whose original releases of both Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 both came on two discs – one to install each game, and one to play it. However, it’s not something that Square Enix is in the habit of doing – at least not in recent years. However, there are many reasons – and potential advantages – to putting FF7 Rebirth on two discs.
FF7 Rebirth’s two discs may contain the entire game, instead of just a digital license like many modern physical game releases. Normally, players still have to wait for a download even when buying a physical copy of a modern game. Sometimes, that’s because the disc just generates a license that gives the player permission to download the game over the Internet. Other discs actually contain the full game, but copy it over to the console first for better performance. With FF7 Rebirth’s potentially massive file size, that would explain why it’s on two discs. Transferring files from a disc is usually faster than downloading them, so this would also speed up wait times for physical purchasers.
However, FF7 Rebirth being on two discs could very well also be a nod by Square Enix to the glory days of the Final Fantasy series. During the original PlayStation’s golden age, its standard CD-roms could only hold 660 MB of data. Way back when, the original FF7 actually came on three discs. This lends it a kind of physical gravity that reflects its ambitious scope; the three-disc case has a significant heft to it, as if the player can actually feel that it’s an enormous game when they pick it up. It almost became an expectation that future Final Fantasy games would come on multiple discs, and indeed FF8 and 9 came in packs of four discs each.
It’d certainly make sense if FF7 Rebirth was just a large file, and the second disc just helps carry some of that bulk. However, Square Enix loves to make sly little references to its older games; even the darker, more mature FF16 will have Chocobos and Moogles running around. This could just as easily be a callback to classic Final Fantasy. Players will have to wait until much closer to the game’s 2024 release window to determine whether its file size justifies a second disc. Whatever the case, the two-disc release of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will certainly make for an impressive collectible.
2023-06-09 22:00:04
Original from screenrant.com
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