Final Fantasy VI, VIII, IX Remakes Would Need “4 or 5 Installments” Says Yoshi-P

Yoshi-P delivered the kind of blunt reality check that makes remake hopefuls reconsider their entire wishlist. At the Final Fantasy 14 Fan Fest panel in Berlin, he noted that classics like Final Fantasy VI, VIII, and IX dwarf even the sprawling FF7 Remake trilogy in scope, meaning any faithful treatment would likely demand four or five separate installments to do them justice.

Hamaguchi, the man steering the FF7 project, echoed the sentiment with weary gratitude that his team has endured the full trilogy run—something far from guaranteed in this industry—and shot down any immediate speculation about taking on FF6 himself. The scale of these older titles, he implied, turns a single remake pitch into a multi-year, multi-team commitment that Square Enix simply isn’t rushing into.

The comments section and X feeds lit up with the usual mix of resigned sighs and half-joking calls for Square Enix to just greenlight the decade-long saga anyway. Meanwhile, Yoshi-P’s playful deflection toward a possible FF17 only poured more fuel on the “what comes next” speculation without promising any classic revival soon.

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KaitoLoreDeep500+ Hours Lore Research +84 -7

The claim that FF VI would require four or five installments ignores that the original development team managed the opera sequence AND the Esper system within the same 32-megabyte ROM. The scope argument is based on modern AAA benchmarking, not actual historical data.

Thorne "Lorehound" BlackwoodSTAFF

The ROM size point is solid, though you’re forgetting that cartridge tech evolved mid-cycle—FFVI launched on the 24-meg revision before they bumped to 32. Semantics aside, Yoshi-P’s scale comparison still holds when you factor in modern voice direction and motion-capture pipelines.