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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Yuffie Episode Exclusive to PS5, Japan Price & New Keyart Revealed

The Final Fantasy 7 Remake Yuffie episode is exclusive to PS5 confirmed according to an FAQ, new keyart and Japan price revealed.

FallenAngel19841166d ago

“Unlike North America and Europe, PS4 players in Japan will need to pay 100 (about $1) yen in order to upgrade to the PS5 version.”

Even if it’s just $1, idk why Japanese gamers wouldn’t get this upgrade for free

Nitrowolf21166d ago

It could be a mistake on the website listing, but I remember Nioh 2 wanted me to pay 99 cents to upgrade, which sony ended up fixing and refunding people who paid it.

LucasRuinedChildhood1166d ago

I think they're actually forced to impose a small charge. It's a regional issue caused by local laws that applies to all free upgrades in Japan. Same for Crash 4 and Borderlands 3.

Articuno761165d ago (Edited 1165d ago )

Reason: Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations

Basically, it's a law that says you can't entice consumers with freebies that are worth more than the value of the product you're selling (i.e. pretending to sell a product when actually luring customers in with freebies). Which is to say that all additional items must have a price set to them that scales in accordance with their monetary value (with the lowest value being 100 yen) to prevent pushing the freebies from being more profitable/prioritsed over selling the core product.

The point of this is to stop freebies from swaying customer purchase decisions (damaging to the consumer in the short term) and perverting the course of supply and demand (damaging to the range of viable products and, by extension, damaging to the consumer in the long term).

To quote:

The purpose of this Act is to protect the interests of general consumers by providing for limitations and the prohibition of acts that are likely to interfere with general consumers' voluntary and rational choice-making in order to prevent the inducement of customers by means of unjustifiable premiums and misleading representations in connection with the transaction of goods and services.

[...] No Entrepreneur may make a Representation as provided for in any one of the following items in connection with the transaction of goods or services which the Entrepreneur supplies:

(i) Any Representation where the quality, standard or any other particular relating to the content of goods or services is portrayed to general consumers as being significantly superior to that of the actual goods or services, or are portrayed as being, contrary to fact, significantly superior to those of other Entrepreneurs who supply the same kind of or similar goods or services as those supplied by the relevant Entrepreneur, thereby being likely to induce customers unjustly and to interfere with general consumers' voluntary and rational choice-making;

Source: http://www.japaneselawtrans...

Knightofelemia1166d ago (Edited 1166d ago )

I buy the FF7 remake on PS4 can't find a PS5 anywhere and I get screwed out of Yuffie because of me owning a PS4 get f*cked. Shouldn't be that hard to bring Yuffie to PS4 if Sony can bring Miles Morales to PS4 then why not bring Yuffie again get f*cked Square.

excaliburps1166d ago

Yeah weird. It's not like they're planning to release Part 2 on just the PS5.

gamesftw2501166d ago

That would be a instant shot in the foot if we did.

LOGICWINS1166d ago

@gamesftw250 Start figuring out how to protect that foot now.

CS71166d ago

Lol you really expecting Part 2 on the PS4? Wtf?

Please no.

DreadfulHero1166d ago (Edited 1166d ago )

This isn't Part 2, which won't be out until probably at least 2023 with a much larger PS5 install base at that point. The voice actress for Aerith can't even currently get a PS5, so unless Square Enix hooks her up with one, even one of the two female lead actresses won't be able to play the DLC for a game she stars in. It is absolutely asinine to release DLC for a game that won't be available for literally every copy the game has currently sold for.

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Nitrowolf21166d ago

Yeah I agree
Like of all the things not to be crossed, this is one of them that really should be.

gamer78041166d ago

I just played the demo on ps4, square is awful about drip feeding content then bundling it all together later, I may even wait til part 2 is out before starting.

andy851165d ago

Its just a DLC. Honestly all the parts won't even be on PS4 so there will be complaints about that. Personally I think this is a good move. This game should be a next gen game really. It suffered pretty bad with tunnelling and walking because of loading. They can make this DLC into how the game actually should be without having to do that

Teflon021165d ago

I absolutely hated the Squeezing through things for loading purposes. I legit didn't want to go to some area's to get things done because I had to squeeze multiple times. Since next gen will take that out the equation I'm absolutely happy. Would be even better if they removed those in the PS5 version. But sadly of course not lmao

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Elda1166d ago

I ended up finishing FFVIIR on my PS5 & then I traded it in towards Persona 5 Strikers. I'm not double-dipping just to play 2 to 3 hrs of a new episode.

OMNlPOTENT1166d ago

I mean it's literally free on ps+ next month isn't it?

DreadfulHero1166d ago

They've stated that the PS+ version will not be freely upgradeable.

Gaming4Life19811166d ago (Edited 1166d ago )

To be fair ff7r is free on ps plus next month so every ps plus subscriber should have it. This is a dumb move on sony and square to release dlc for a game that launched on ps4 but can only be played on ps5. Thats bad business right there and anyone defending this is insane.

Its like they are trying to piss people off. I also think its a slap in the face to release dlc for this game anyway. They already are making us pay 3 times the original price of the game and now before they even finish the 3 games they are making dlc.

Ff7r is a good game solely because of the new combat system but id rather have had the original game with a complete overhaul in the graphics department.

DreadfulHero1166d ago (Edited 1166d ago )

The free upgrade won't work for the PS+ version. Square Enix has already stated as such.

/sadtrombone

Also, if you're interested in the original game with a graphics overhaul, then you might be interested in a particular new mobile game experience. LOL

Gaming4Life19811166d ago

Lol yea i want a modern console version but if the mobile game is good ill get it.

I already own the remake so im good but that sucks for anyone that doesnt.

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Sgt_Slaughter69d ago

If you can't go without breasts in a cutscene, you need help

Rebel_Scum69d ago

Should’ve ended that sentence with either “you maggot” or “you puke” Sarge

Barlos69d ago

Well bloody hell, I guess I need committing then. Stick me in a padded cell

Eonjay69d ago

People need serious help if you 'need' to stare at a minors breasts. And some of you admitted that so at least we have acknowledgement. Can we not sexualize children? It shouldn't be considered progressive. I think the mass majority of people regardless of political view aren't into to kiddie boobs.

CrimsonWing6969d ago

look, man... why support censorship in any way? Forget the cleavage, it's the principle. Do you like owning the cable television edited version of a movie or do you want the original R-rated version?

I'd be just as irked by this if WB Games put out a patch that censored all the swearing and gore in an MK game. So, regardless of how you feel about boobs being covered up in the game, it's the principle of censorship that gets most people. I couldn't care less if she wore a sports bra from the beginning, what I hate is people covering my eyes and ears like I'm a 5-year old telling me, "This is too inappropriate for you."

So, yea, censorship is dumb as f*ck regardless of the content. Changing something that's already established that nobody made a big deal about, and nobody is getting their rocks off to (let's be real here), all because people get uncomfortable with boobs is dumb, plain and simple.

Like, give me a f*cking break here...

AdonisIsBeast69d ago (Edited 69d ago )

Yea, apparently you’re incapable of comprehending the point of the complaint. As another user mentioned, it’s principal. These are fictional characters in fictional worlds, it gives most people no pleasure see “the cleavage” as used in this example. The entire point is that we are all getting sick and tired of these fake and unnecessary DEI and ethics departments censoring media simply for the sake of it. Unless theres nudity, they should leave it alone.

Babadook769d ago (Edited 69d ago )

I prefer the before, but I won’t make a mountain out of a molehill. (No pun intended)

CobraKai69d ago

It’s about the needless censorship.

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andy8569d ago

I mean she is portrayed as being 15 in the scene. I don't really consider it woke to cover up a child (begs questions why they did it in the first place though).

Rocketisleague69d ago

In the original nomura was going nuts with child panty references and such. Look it up

k2d69d ago

Devil's advocate here.. who's doing the objectification here though? How would progressives react if teenagers where asked to not show skin and cover up their feminine traits? No bare shoulders. No hair. No make-up etc.. 20-30 years ago the main stream tune was the complete opposite, and games where under attack from conservatives and we had to defend games from them. Now publishers are pre-emptively chastising and censoring to please left AND right, depending on which region of the world their trying to up ease.

dmonee68d ago

Alot of Japanese animation, cartoons, video games, are SuS, when it comes to sexual exploitation lol.

Gamingsince198169d ago

She's not anything , she's not a real person, she was never born, they could make her nude and no harm would be done to anything but the minds of people that can't tell real life from video games.

OMGitzThatGuy69d ago

Black rock is against sexualizing minors? Those demons!

AdonisIsBeast69d ago

Actually they’re FOR exploiting children and promoting puberty blockers and life altering hormone treatment for minors. Do your research

qalpha68d ago (Edited 68d ago )

BlackRock is apparently FOR sexualizing minors. They (along with Disney) were vehemently against the Florida parental rights bill (better known as the 'don't sexualize young elementary kids' bill).

banger8869d ago

"It’s unclear why Square Enix opted to make this change around 4 years after the game’s release."

Because some progressive, blue-haired freak started quivering uncontrollably and frothing at the mouth?

CrimsonWing6969d ago (Edited 69d ago )

What’s weird about it? Females wear low cut shirts all the time, do you bust a nut over it? No… well, I’d hope not.

This is a person who has breasts that wore a low cut shirt, the end. It’s not child porn and nobody in hear was fapping to it.

When you go to a mall and some 15 year old has cleavage showing do you run up and throw a bed sheet over her? I mean Geezus you see more with swimsuits…

Our culture is so weird. We have people championing women for doing OnlyFans as such a brave and empowering decision. I see celebrities barely wearing anything on the red carpet exposing their nipples and butt cheeks and everyone is gawking at how amazing the outfit is.

A freaking game has a fake character that in no way looks 15 and in no way is oversexualized, but had a shirt with cleavage in what, a 30 second scene, and suddenly that’s where we draw the line… like what world am I living in?

andy8569d ago

Just personally find it weird. But what is actually weird is the people who are complaining about it. If she was 12 is that suddenly not OK. 10? There's a reason stuff like that isn't shown in media on children. You'll obviously see it in real life but doesn't mean it's right.

gold_drake69d ago

yes and to make it more in line with Rebirth. shes wearing a black undershirt in that game. consistency.

the japanese definetly didnt care if she has one on or not ha.

Barlos69d ago

Sweet Baby Inc is probably the reason

I_am_Batman69d ago (Edited 69d ago )

Seems much more likely that the team simply wanted to prevent perverts from zooming in on the cleavage of a 15-year-old in photo mode. I'm pretty sure the Nibelheim flashbacks in Remake were only a couple seconds with a fixed cutscene camera, so that wasn't much of an issue until Rebirth where this character model is obviously used a lot more.

Maybe you guys should hold your horses until you've played the game and stop jumping to conclusions. I've already got spoiled about a scene that happens later on in the game and it certainly didn't fit your hypothesis of Square bending the knee to oversensitive "progressives" with an allergiy to attractive females.

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franwex69d ago

They wanted to have consistency with the new character model. That basically it.

Why not make the new character model resemble the design of 4 years ago though?

gold_drake69d ago

while i want my games, especially the ff games with alot of lore, to be as accurate in their translation as possible, the english localisation took huge liberties in the first place.

the japanese and german for example are in line with one another. english is not. but yea. its a silly change, the steel sky was a great thing when she said it, but apperantly the original english lip movement was more in line with "i dont like it" than with "the steel sky, i miss it"

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