Final Fantasy 16 will certainly be ‘exclusive’ to PS5 for 6 months

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The following mainline Final Fantasy game will certainly be a PlayStation 5 unique for 6 months, according to a new ad for Sony’s current-gen console. Final Fantasy 16 has actually constantly been pitched as being linked to some type of PlayStation exclusivity — regardless of being initially confirmed for PC as well — yet Sony’s brand-new promotion for the PS5 makes it specific, allowing gamers on various other systems recognize the length of time they’ll need to evade looters for the game.

What’s vague regarding Final Fantasy 16’s exclusivity is which systems that classification relates to. Elsewhere in the exact same advertisement, an additional Square Enix-released game, Forspoken, is called PS5 unique up until Jan. 23, 2025, 2 years after the game launches on both PS5 and also computer. Does that suggest Final Fantasy 16 is just console-exclusive throughout the initial 6 months, which an Xbox variation schedules at some time in very early 2024? It’s vague, so Polygon has actually connected to both Square Enix and also Sony for clearness, and also will certainly upgrade when the business reacts.

Further jumbling the PS5 exclusivity of Final Fantasy 16 is Square Enix’s performance history for previous RPG exclusives. The author’s Final Fantasy 7 Remake was at first unique to PlayStation 4 when it was launched in 2020. A year later on, the remake involved computer — initially only for the Epic Game Store, though! — and also PlayStation 5 with Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade broadened launch. (Remake still hasn’t made its method to Xbox.)

Yet no such exclusivity relates to an additional substantial Final Fantasy job: Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 Reunion. The high-def remaster of 2007’s Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 is involving Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows COMPUTER through Steam, Xbox One, and also Xbox Series X this December, in what is a platform-agnostic launch.

Final Fantasy 16 is slated for release in summer 2023. The activity role-playing game informs the tale of the kingdom of Valisthea and also Clive Rosfield, called the First Shield of the country of Rosaria. Clive functions as guardian to his more youthful bro Joshua, a Dominant, that has the power to mobilize an effective animal called an Eikon — FF16’s variation of a summonable beast. Unexpected occasions established Clive on a dark and also unsafe roadway to retribution, Square Enix states in the game’s main summary.

 

Source: Polygon