Final Fantasy XIII Trilogy Releasing for PC in 2015

<p>A new portal page for the <em>Final Fantasy XIII<&sol;em> saga has gone live and prominently featuring the Steam logo&period; The site&comma; launched today&comma; features the Steam image next to logos for already confirmed platforms&period; <em>Final Fantasy XIII<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Final Fantasy XIII-2<&sol;em> and <em>Lightning Returns&colon; Final Fantasy XIII<&sol;em> were originally released on Xbox 360 and PS3&comma; and all three are coming to Japan&&num;8217&semi;s Dive In mobile streaming app&comma; as announced last week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Square Enix&&num;8217&semi;s not announced any PC ports of the JRPG trilogy so take all this with a pinch of salt&period; That said&comma; the publisher does seem to have a few things up its sleeve for the Tokyo Game Show&comma; which is taking place today through the 21st of September&period; Earlier this year&comma; Final Fantasy producer Yoshinori Kitase told Eurogamer he was &&num;8220&semi;definitely interested&&num;8221&semi; in pursuing PC versions for future games&comma; and elaborated on why the FF13 saga wasn&&num;8217&semi;t released on PC initially&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><strong>&&num;8220&semi;Let&&num;8217&semi;s not forget&comma; when we developed the Final Fantasy 13 series&comma; all three titles&comma; at the early stages of development we were working on PC&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;strong> Kitase told Eurogamer&period;<strong> &&num;8220&semi;Then we had to port it to the consoles&period; As far as the technology is concerned&comma; it would have been possible for us to make a PC version&comma; but we decided against it for two reasons&colon; We looked at the market situation and we didn&&num;8217&semi;t think it would be a good idea&comma; and also it would have involved lots of complex issues like security&period; So we decided not to do it this time around&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>FF 13 and FF 14 were brought to Steam along with PlayStation entries <em>Final Fantasy VII<&sol;em> and <em>Final Fantasy VIII<&sol;em> last year&comma; though of those <em>Final Fantasy III<&sol;em> was the only one not already available on PC&period; We may find out either way later this week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Sources&colon;<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;square-enix&period;co&period;jp&sol;fabula&sol;FF13&lowbar;Portal&sol;">Square Enix<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;joystiq&period;com&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;17&sol;final-fantasy-13s-new-portal-page-has-a-steam-logo&sol;">Joystiq<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2014-02-19-square-enix-definitely-interested-in-bringing-future-final-fantasy-games-to-pc">Eurogamer<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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