Square Enix director Naoki Hamaguchi has confirmed to Dual Shockers that DLC is being considered for the yet-untitled Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3. This comes with a slightly awkward asterisk attached: Part 3's development is apparently the reason Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth never received any DLC of its own.
That's right - Rebirth players who were desperately waiting for extra content, maybe some bonus Yuffie missions or a deep dive into the Gold Saucer, got absolutely nothing. The whole dev team apparently respawned straight into Part 3's map before anyone could even drop a DLC patch note.
A tale of two DLCs (one of which doesn't exist)
To be fair, Hamaguchi framing this as a positive for Part 3 is a pretty bold move. It's a bit like a sibling eating your birthday cake and then saying "good news - I'm thinking about baking a new one." Rebirth had a rich world packed with side content, optional characters, and story threads that fans were hungry to see expanded. Instead, all that energy got funneled into the trilogy's closing chapter.
If you need a comparison point, Final Fantasy 7 Remake's Intergrade DLC - featuring Yuffie Kisaragi - was genuinely excellent and added meaningful story content to an already packed game. The precedent is there for Square Enix to cook up something worth buying, so the concept isn't totally out of left field.
No details, no timeline, no problem (apparently)
Before you start theorycrafting your DLC wishlist, pump the brakes - nothing is confirmed yet. Hamaguchi described DLC as something that might happen, which in game development language could mean anything from "it's already in production" to "we said a thing at an interview once." Part 3 itself doesn't even have a release window yet, so we're firmly in the "please look forward to it" zone.
Still, the acknowledgment that Rebirth missed out specifically because of Part 3's development pipeline is an interesting bit of transparency from the team. Whether that makes the wait sting more or less probably depends on how many hours you sank into Rebirth's already enormous content offering.
For now, Cloud and company are still somewhere deep in dev limbo, and Rebirth fans remain DLC-less. Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 better ship with a very good DLC pass to make up for it - or at the very least, let us play more Cait Sith. Give the man his moment.
