Final Fantasy 7 Remake Xbox One Price

Last Fantasy 7 Remake is bringing the $seventy game to PC

(Paradigm credit: Square Enix)

A glance at Steam'southward top sellers reveals games at all sorts of prices: $60, $40, $30, $fifteen, $4. Game prices are more flexible and fluid than they've ever been, but triple-A games on consoles still mostly aim for the exact same price: $60 for PlayStation iv / Xbox Ane, or $70 for the "adjacent-gen" PS5 / Xbox Series X version. For the last year publishers have held dorsum from bringing that $lxx toll to PC, but it looks like Square Enix is about to intermission the seal.

Final Fantasy seven Remake is coming to the Epic Games Store on Dec 16th, where it's priced at $69.99. Square Enix seems to be plunging boldly ahead with $lxx PC games, equally it also announced that side by side year's Forspoken (opens in new tab), coming in May, will be the aforementioned cost.

These aren't the commencement PC games to ever price $70, of course, only these are notably just the standard editions of each games, without arranged season passes or soundtracks or cosmetic DLC. This isn't a premium: it's the new normal. Or at to the lowest degree what publishers like Square Enix want to be the new normal.

Square Enix is the outset major publisher to push a $lxx base price on PC; some recent loftier profile games similar Battlefield 2042 and Call of Duty Vanguard take stuck to $60, even though they cost $ten more on the new consoles. It seems similar the $60 triple-A game will be around on PC for awhile longer, at least: there are some 2022 games like Tiny Tina's Wonderlands that are already announced at that price, even though they cost more if yous buy them on a PS5 or Xbox Series Ten. Only it seems inevitable other publishers volition follow Square Enix eventually, even if at that place'southward a good argument that big upkeep games should really cost less.

$70 feels steep, only the new normal is fifty-fifty worse for most other countries than information technology is for the US. Square Enix is selling Forspoken for $115.95 in Commonwealth of australia, which is 17.ix% pricier based on a currency conversion to the Us dollar co-ordinate to SteamDB. In the UK it'south £64.99, or 23.2% pricier. And the European price is just ridiculous: at 79.99€, Forspoken is nearly thirty% more expensive in Euros than in US dollars. At least we have international Steam sales to lessen the sting.

Wes has been covering games and hardware for more than than 10 years, beginning at tech sites like The Wirecutter (opens in new tab) and Tested (opens in new tab) before joining the PC Gamer team in 2014. Wes plays a little bit of everything, but he'll always jump at the chance to cover emulation and Japanese games.

When he's not obsessively optimizing and re-optimizing a tangle of conveyor belts in Satisfactory (it's really becoming a trouble), he'southward probably playing a 20-yr-onetime Concluding Fantasy or some opaque ASCII roguelike. With a focus on writing and editing features, he seeks out personal stories and in-depth histories from the corners of PC gaming and its niche communities. l% pizza by volume (deep dish, to be specific).