Hamaguchi Says FF7 Part 3 Reveal Prep Is 'Underway' as SGF 2026 Rumors Build

Square Enix has not announced Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3. That hasn't stopped a fairly convincing case from forming around Summer Game Fest 2026 as the reveal venue, built out of one leaker's prediction, a magazine poster, and a director who keeps saying the word "announcement" out loud.

The leaker in question is Nate the Hate, who, per ScreenRant, has pointed to SGF 2026 as the stage for the third entry. That's a single-source claim from someone with a mixed-but-not-embarrassing track record on Square Enix stuff, so file it accordingly. It is not a confirmation. It is a guy saying a thing on the internet, and the internet running with it.

The more interesting fuel comes from director Naoki Hamaguchi himself. In comments highlighted by ccftech, Hamaguchi said "preparations toward the announcement are steadily underway" and added that he wants to reach a point where he can "proudly say, 'I have completed the FFVII Remake series to the very end.'" That's a director openly telegraphing that a reveal is being worked on. Whether it lands at SGF, a State of Play, a Tokyo Game Show stage, or a standalone Square Enix stream is the part nobody outside the building actually knows.

Hamaguchi also said something that matters more for the long-term shape of the project than the date on a marketing calendar. "The era of 'the porting team working hard later' is over," he told ccftech, confirming the team is designing Part 3 for multiple platforms from the start. Rebirth shipped PS5-exclusive in February 2024 and only made it to PC this year, following a similar timed-exclusive path to Part 1 after its 2020 PS4 launch. A simultaneous multiplatform release would be a real structural change, and it raises a fair question about scope: building for PS5, PC, and presumably Xbox in parallel is not a small ask for a game that needs to land the conclusion of a trilogy.

The other piece fans have latched onto is a Game Informer teaser poster for SGF 2026 that prominently features Cloud Strife alongside Lara Croft and Wolverine. A character on a magazine cover is not an announcement. It is, however, the kind of breadcrumb that the community will absolutely treat as one until proven otherwise, and Game Informer doesn't usually put Cloud on a Summer Game Fest poster for no reason.

The FF7 Rebirth reveal followed a similar pattern back at SGF 2023, which is part of why the SGF 2026 theory has legs. Square Enix has used Geoff Keighley's stage for this series before, and doing it a third time would be the least surprising decision the publisher could make.

What's confirmed: nothing about Part 3's title, release window, or platforms. What Hamaguchi has said: a reveal is in the works and the game is being built multiplatform from day one. What's still rumor: the specific SGF 2026 timing and anything Nate the Hate is attaching to it.

The open questions worth tracking are whether Square Enix repeats the Rebirth playbook with a Keighley-stage reveal, what a simultaneous multiplatform launch does to the development timeline, and how much weight Nate the Hate's call actually carries when the dust settles. June is a long way off. Plenty of time for someone to leak the logo first.