Final Fantasy XVI Producer Teases “Other Platforms” After PC Port

We recently interviewed Final Fantasy XVI staff at PAX East 2024, namely producer Naoki Yoshida and DLC director Takeo Kujiraoka, discussing the upcoming The Rising Tide DLC while reflecting on the development process of Final Fantasy XVI as a whole

[Obscure_Observer]

It´s happening

[FPSRUSSIA]

it has to be Xbox Nintendo Switch wouldnt be able to handle this game.

[Snookies12]

It can! Bump it down to 240p, take out all particle effects, drastically reduce the textures and draw distance. And we have a winner! Lol, but yes, I'm sure Xbox is going to get it at some point. I don't see Square-Enix making this a forever exclusive. Not when they're putting so much money into FF VII Trilogy as the Sony exclusive.

[Extermin8or3_]

Switch 2 might be able to tbf.

[VenomUK]

Switch 2 will be a natural home for it.

[Seraphim]

next gen Switch

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I can't see it being on the Switch either, look at how badly the Witcher Wild Hunt runs on it, considering FF16 is a lot newer, it would be a disaster. But the Switch 2 might be able to run it at a decent graphic/performance level.

[Neonridr]

it could be the Switch successor though.

[Cacabunga]

I see this game on ouya and not on xbox.. the brand is dying painfully

[GotGame818]

Switch no. Switch 2 yes. It's coming sooner than later.

[Philaroni]

At the same quality no, for the Switch I mean. Though we seen some 'impossible' ports in the past too it. The hard part is it uses Nvidia tech.. to be fair it is better then AMD in many ways. We will have to wait and see however. I do think Switch 2 is likely the more promising situation and they Xbox Series systems.

[crazyCoconuts]

Man those 20 Final Fantasy fans that still own Xboxes are gonna be so happy!

[MrNinosan]

Not really, when they realize they have to pay for it, and won't get in through GamePass.

[Barlos]

It's not

[raWfodog]

I still haven't played it yet. I'm waiting for the Rising Tide DLC to release. Maybe I'll get to it by this summer.

[andy85]

More like Switch 2. That would be massive in Japan

[Ps5conehead]

It want be on game pass so I guess most cheaply on the x want buy and support it

[Redgrave]

Get ready to say this again for Starfield PS5

[Extermin8or3_]

We'll see, either Microsoft are praying then a truck load of money to bring it over, or they are willing to see if it will sell. If it's the latter then Xbox gamers better show up to buy it- if they don't square enix won't bother again.

[PrinceOfAnger]

Well.. sony paid alot of money first for making FF games exclusive.

[crazyCoconuts]

I doubt they paid a lot. The Xbox market for JRPGs is so small.

[MrNinosan]

Song doesn't need to pay SE money to get games. The difference is thay SE games sell on Playstation but they don't sell on Xbox.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

My understanding was that Sony helped more than actually funding the game, hence while it started out as an exclusive game for Playstion, but we know the plan was to eventually port it to at least PCs.

[Petebloodyonion]

Why would they need to show up?
1) I'm sure a huge chunk of Xbox owners are also PlayStation owners meaning they probably already bought it on PS5.
2) I doubt that you please a fanbase by giving them the middle finger due to accepting money for making sure to not make the game for them.

[Michiel1989]

porting to another system with mostly the same architecture isn't that much work. Even if it sells only a tiny bit on xbox it will probably be worth it for them.

[shaenoide]

Yyeeeahhh......

[CrimsonWing69]

I think with the new Xbox relationship and seeing how these games aren’t meeting sales expectations it makes sense that they’re Putting them on Xbox.

[Shane Kim]

You think it suddenly will on xbox? MS is going third party couse nothing sells on xbox.

[CrimsonWing69]

I’m not saying if it will or won’t. Common sense would show that if you make your product available to more consumers you’ll pull in more money than you would by walking yourself off from consumers. I’m just stating the obvious on why this will come to Xbox. They’ve already shook hands on stage announcing a reinvigorated partnership and brought FF14 to the platform as a result. 16 and the RE-Trilogy will more than likely show up. Xbox already has Reunion. Had there been stronger sales in PS5 maybe they wouldn’t, but that’s obviously not happening.

[autobotdan]

Final Fantasy XVI on Panasonic 3DO or PC Engine CD

[jznrpg]

I wish PC Engine came back. Loved my Turbo Grafx 16 but they didn’t port enough games because not enough people bought it in US

[DarXyde]

Unless Sony is coming out with a handheld powerful enough to run it, I'm sure an Xbox version is coming (and perhaps even a Switch 2 version). XVI is too westernized to miss Xbox entirely, I feel. It might be the next Xbox though, given the speculated 2026 launch. It's supposed to have some portability features (allegedly), which would really be an incentive to do that.

Square did a great job trolling everyone on Remake when they announced FFVII remastered at PSX. If they announced XVI for Mac and nothing else, that would have been God tier trolling.

[DOMination-]

More likely a PS5 Pro "intergrade" type thing than an Xbox release imo

[8bitAssassin]

Let Microsoft keep throwing millions of dollars at it, cause that's the only way it's happening. Get that bread SE.

If Nintendo new system is close to the power as the PS4 and still runs on Cartridges. You can hang that dream up too.

[LikAChicken]

Wasn't that the case with Sony throwing millions of dollars at this to begin with?

[8bitAssassin]

Nope. SquareSoft was in bad terms with Nintendo at the time, so they negotiated a really cheap deal for what they were offering anyway. Also better to go where your games are bought than having them waste away cause ten people want to play them. Game Pass is not free and millions of dollars are being lost on it.

[P_Bomb]

Unless it goes to GamePass, I don’t see it making much of a dent.

[ocelot07]

Ain't games been going to iPhone me recently like resident evil 4 remakem

[Battlestar23]

Awesome i really want to play this game on Xbox. I hope it's on Gamepass as i don't want to give Square Enix any money as they cheated us Xbox gamers out of a Day 1 release alongside with PS.

[MrNinosan]

And those are the reasons not all games are coming to Xbox.

[rlow1]

@Battlestar23
I agree it will make a nice addition to the system. I hope they take it up a notch on the Xbox series X.

[Battlestar23]

With Xbox's 12 TF the will easily run 4K with a locked 60FPS through the entire game.

[Youngindy21]

At this point, I will probably just pick up the PC release. But I'm glad to see they might still be considering Xbox.

[ravens52]

Cool.

[gold_drake]

i mean .. that could mean alot of things.

bur we're gonna see.

i love how funny he was on stage tho xDD

[YourMommySpoils]

Potato Switch version coming up.

[Asterphoenix]

We'll see regardless of if it's a release or a gamepass release I don't see it selling much on Xbox despite some cash from MS. Would like some more secret bosses with different attack patterns and some minigames. Since late game there's not much of that.

[Kekewei]

Understandable， MS just opened up their first-party titles to Sony, Sony must also show some goodwill back... Even just let go of some third-party exclusives.

[anast]

It's going to look real bad on other platforms.

[Silly Mammo]

Calm down. The other platform is going to be PS5 Pro. 🤣

[RiseNShine]

Switch 2 launch game confirmed.

[LostPotato]

The hate for MS is strong on this site. Guess what fanboys even Sony recently said exclusive games are the past.

[shadowT]

great game!

[hiroyukisanada]

Xbox needs it. As a console, they are on life support. Sales have rapidly declined. Their audience isn't there anymore but maybe it can help drive revenue.
As a platform, I really only see their base trying it if it somehow ends up on Gamepass.