With Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 in the rear view, Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says a turn-based Final Fantasy could sell over 10 million copies: "There's clearly the audience"

Final Fantasy 7 Remake.

Even after the heat death of the universe, I'm convinced the internet will still be doing what it does best: posting cute cat videos and having debates about whether Final Fantasy should embrace turn-based combat again. The FF discourse is nothing new, but it's news this time because Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director has chimed in.

For anyone new to the Final Fantasy mines, you might not have known that the series cut its teeth as a turn-based JRPG behemoth. It's, of course, been well over a decade since those days, though. 2001's Final Fantasy 10 was the last mainline entry with a proper turn-based battle system before Square Enix experimented with MMOs (FF11, FF14), single-player MMO combat (FF12), pure real-time action (FF15, FF16, FF7R), and experimental hybrids (FF13).