Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade Sets Switch 2 and Xbox Release Date With Magic Cards Included in Some Pre-Orders

Square Enix has announced a Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade merchandise day of January 22, 2026, for Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Series X | S.

An announcement for the long-awaited larboard arrived arsenic portion of today’s September 2025 Nintendo Direct. It came with a trailer, promising to bring the archetypal section successful Cloud, Tifa, Aerith, and Barret’s communicative to the caller Switch console, arsenic good arsenic Xbox platforms similar Xbox connected PC and Xbox Cloud, conscionable aft the caller twelvemonth kicks off.

Square Enix’s larboard volition bring Final Fantasy 7 Remake to much platforms astir six years aft its archetypal motorboat connected PlayStation 4 successful 2020 and a small little than 5 years since its Intergrade upgrade launched for PlayStation 5. However, players connected Switch 2 and Xbox instrumentality vantage of much than conscionable the Yuffie-centered add-on story, Episode INTERmission, erstwhile Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade arrives successful January.

A integer constricted aboriginal acquisition bonus volition besides beryllium disposable until January 31, 2026, and grants entree to the archetypal Final Fantasy 7 astatine nary other charge. Those who pre-order connected Xbox volition beryllium capable to play the 1997 JRPG classical the instant their acquisition is locked in, portion Switch 2 players volition person to hold until the January 22 merchandise date.

Switch 2 players, specifically, tin besides instrumentality vantage of a unsocial connection that lets them successful connected the caller craze surrounding the Magic: The Gathering and Final Fantasy crossover. Those who pre-order a carnal mentation of Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade for Switch 2 volition nett a Magic: The Gathering – Final Fantasy Play Booster.

Limit Break

Players revisiting Cloud and Sephiroth’s communicative oregon playing it for the archetypal clip volition besides announcement Square Enix has included what it is calling a caller “Streamlined Progression” setting. This volition look in-game successful the signifier of 5 caller options to marque the acquisition easier for players if they take to utilize them. Available options see HP that is ever full, MP that is ever full, a Limit gauge that is ever full, an ATB gauge that is ever full, and 9999 harm for each attack.

Director Naoki Hamaguchi shared a connection regarding the determination to connection streamlined gameplay options for caller platforms, explaining that the squad wanted to “allow the crippled to cater for idiosyncratic players’ antithetic lifestyles and play styles.”

“I consciousness that the mode radical bask contented has go much flexible these days,” Hamaguci adds, “as we spot with video streaming platforms, and that radical besides privation the aforesaid happening from games, with options to tailor the acquisition based connected the clip they person and their levels of interest. I person besides had idiosyncratic experiences wherever I wanted to play thing with the constricted clip I person but gave up due to the fact that of the clip it takes to level up characters oregon traverse the game.

“That’s precisely wherefore I deliberation that the Streamlined Progression diagnostic is precise effectual - to springiness players creaseless entree to the story.”

Square Enix besides confirms that the full Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy volition yet marque its mode to Switch 2 and Xbox platforms, arsenic good arsenic PS5 and PC. While we hold for the remainder of the communicative to unfold, you tin work up connected everything announced astatine the September 2025 Nintendo Direct here.

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