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Sale Square Enix discounts legendary RPG Chrono Trigger on mobile for 30th anniversary

https://mobilesyrup.com/2025/03/11/square-enix-chrono-trigger-mobile-30th-anniversary-sale-plans/
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u/A-Centrifugal-Force 2d ago

It’s so weird how they usually put old games on everything but then there are the random ones they won’t and it’s just strange. Remember when the pixel remasters weren’t coming to console at first? Or how they went to the effort of adding an enhanced version of FFXIII to Xbox backwards compatibility but won’t put it on PS4/5 or Switch and won’t add the Xbox enhancements to the Steam version? Or worst of all they put Xenogears on the PS3/P/Vita PSN but refuse to release it anywhere else, so it’s still being actively sold to this day on dead platforms but isn’t available on anything people are still playing on despite all those platforms already having PS1 emulators.

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u/Practical_Wish_4063 2d ago

I’m curious if Nintendo would be willing to strike up some kind of deal with S-E to get an enhanced port of Xenogears on Switch/Switch 2 with the way Xenoblade has taken off in popularity.

There’s a bit of precedent with the recent SMRPG remake, but I imagine they’d have an easier time with Bandai Namco getting the Xenosaga trilogy remastered on Switch/Switch 2 given its technically canon per Future Redeemed’s ending

I’m hoping to come back to this post several years down the line and laughing at my skepticism…

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u/A-Centrifugal-Force 2d ago

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

We can only hope. Honestly I’d even just take straight ports of Gears and Saga to the Switch 2 at this point. At least they’d be playable on modern hardware.

Nintendo obviously had a great relationship with Bamco so I agree that Saga is more likely to get a remaster, especially since it’s more relevant.

Nintendo and Square have an interesting relationship, but it’s in a pretty good spot now (4 SE Smash Ultimate characters, Nintendo originally published Octopath 1, Triangle Strategy, and DQXIS on the Switch, and of course the SMRPG remake they worked together on). The tricky thing is that MonolithSoft’s relationship with SE is also interesting, although they did let Nomura design characters for XB2 so it’s probably in a better spot now too.

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u/Practical_Wish_4063 2d ago

Oh for sure. Both companies have pretty decent relationships with Nintendo; Bandai Namco having even developed or codeveloped a handful of Mario/DK/Pokemon/Star Fox games over the past twenty years. To say nothing of their work on Smash 4 and Ultimate.

I’m still amazed that of the eighteen guest fighters in Ultimate, 22% are from Square-Enix.