Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth sales surge after Revelation reveal

The Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy is riding a serious commercial wave right now. Trilogy director Naoki Hamaguchi told Automaton that both Remake and Rebirth have been selling "several times better" than expected since Final Fantasy 7 Revelation was revealed at Summer Game Fest 2026 — and he says the games are "performing even better than most people probably imagine."

Hamaguchi couldn't share hard numbers due to Square Enix's investor relations policy, but he drew a clear pattern: when Rebirth was announced, Remake sales climbed every time the sequel made headlines. He expects the same halo effect to keep pushing Rebirth sales as Revelation continues to attract attention. PC is a notable driver here — the English-speaking PC market is strong, but Hamaguchi specifically called out the Simplified Chinese PC market as having grown to a comparable level. On the design side, he confirmed that Revelation is making minigames skippable and adjusting their rewards, directly in response to community feedback on Rebirth. He also pushed back gently on the idea that the fanbase's intensity is a problem: "When people discuss and get heated about the minigames, the story, or the relationships between characters in FFVII, I think that only happens because they see value in those elements."

One of the more striking details from the interview is staff retention: Hamaguchi says more than 90 percent of the team that worked on Remake has stayed on the project all the way through to Revelation. He attributed that partly to the strength of the Final Fantasy 7 IP and partly to working within a community of fans with extremely high expectations — framing those expectations as motivating rather than pressuring. The Final Fantasy 7 remake project has been running since Remake launched in 2020, making that level of continuity genuinely unusual for a multi-year AAA trilogy.

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is set to launch in spring 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC, and Nintendo Switch 2 — a simultaneous multi-platform release. Square Enix has not yet confirmed whether the game will get a physical disc release, even though Sony's disc phase-out is still over a year away.