Final Fantasy VII Remake won’t have new characters

I am fine with this. It will be better for Square Enix to concentrate their efforts really producing a polished (and long-waited) remake of the game, and possibly release it in a timely manner. The delay on Final Fantasy XIII Versus was so long that it transformed into Final Fantasy XV and Versus was no more. They have to be very careful with their time management for this one.

Why SHOULD it?

Exactly.  They said Remake not re-write.   Though I know they said that they're thinking about re-writing parts of the story.  It probably has more to do with tying up plot elements that weren't finished or fleshing out elements they wanted to do but couldn't originally because of time/budget.

Square Enix most likely see this as an opportunity to clean up any plot holes and loose ends of FFVII.

Question is...will it make nearly as much money as FFVII originally did?

I'd totally expect that to happen, honestly. XD

Loads of people just now buying a PS4 because a remake of FFVII was officially announced.

depends on if you count for inflation and if the ff7r is considered as a whole or individual games when people start playing with the numbers to get the results they want

will it be as well received? doubtful, living up to the hype ff7 generates and the pedestal the fanbase puts it on is an immense uphill battle, but even if it comes close it will spawn a new generation of ff7 hypelings that didnt like or never played ff7 and enough of ff7s fanbase could see it on its own merits as a retelling of a classic story

any changes or reductions to the cast or setting will be heavily criticised (whether warranted or they found a better way to get the story point across), luckily i think the team knows this and i hope theyre willing to look past the ignorant screamers that dont play video games and see that even the 'controversial' stuff has a place in the worldset and should be kept for those that are mature enough to understand it, as for no new characters, ill bet they have sections where you gain temp party members for the story but the core group will be unchanged


as an aside, yeah i hope they totally troll us with some insane set of circumstances to bring back aerith like what happened when the original game came out, thatd be hilarious (and then hide an even more trolly way to have her rejoin as a playable char in some way only doable in ng+ >3>please?)