FFIII and all the other ff on the psp disagree.But what would be the point of that? It's not free to do (because even if it is, you loose the opportunity to wait and port it to a more successful hardware), and it would sell almost nothing...
S-E will be the last company to release their games for a cheap price or on limited hardware if they think they can wait and earn more money. You see that from the lack of old games re-releases on any platform.
Would it make sense? maybe, but this is S-E...
Dd release is still cheaper than retail, so even if you they don't expect a lot of sales it's always better than doing nothing.
They could always release later hd versions like mgs pw, mhp3rd hd and others.
Where's this physical alternative? i don't see the game released on it. Dd only is the cheapest and safest way to bring it here, obviously i would be happy for a retail version too, but this mentality of "retail of nothing" is surpassed, they have to understand it if they don't want to lose lots of potential money.There will never be a major FF release as a digital only release, not as long as there's a physical alternative.