Rumor: Final Fantasy XVI and Pixel Remaster Collection Coming to Xbox - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 October 2024 / 3,606 Views
Square Enix will be releasing Final Fantasy XVI and the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Collection on Xbox consoles, according to leaker NateTheHate via ResetEra.
"Square Enix has many things planned for Xbox, yes," said the leaker. "Final Fantasy 16 is among them -- which has been said several times now. FF Pixel Remaster Collection is the more immediate release coming from [Square Enix] for Xbox. And the support extends beyond just Final Fantasy stuff."
The leaker did not mention the Final Fantasy 7 Remake series and VG247 editor Alex Donaldson on ResetEra claimed those two games are not in active development for Xbox.
As always this should be treated as a rumor until an official announcement is made.
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The pixel remaster collection isn't on Xbox already? Is this because Sony paid or MS forgot to reply to an email?
Neither, it was likely a business decision initially made by SE because of low sales on the Xbox platform. The pixel remaster came out on PC, Switch and PS4 so there was no Sony deal for that. FF16 on the other hand was always a Sony money hat. When Sony has a marketing deal or timed exclusive deal it's usually stated and quite obvious from them.
We saw multiple documents from Sony and a contract asking publishers to DO NOT publish games on Xbox (specifically) and not mention any other platforms. Why would this one be different? They are doing both (either full exclusivity for the Play Station Five or just making sure it is not on Xbox).
If anything and without having any insight, I would say that it is likely a money hat like the many others (which is fine and understandable).
Old CEO didn't like working with MS and it hasn't been until the new CEO came on board that Square started this new relationship with MS. Since the Pixel Remaster collection was PC/mobile only initially before coming to consoles, I'm guessing the old CEO just didn't have any interest in porting to Xbox.
Well, that's a given that they are losing some money. Now to which extends Sony can make it up with the money hating. That's the question; based on recent development it was not enough but I'm happy they are moving away from that for sure. Best for gamers.
That's actually not where they were losing their money. It was all on 140 million worth of canceled projects. As well as the games that really did bomb like Forespoken. This company is known for never being satisfied with the sales of their gamers. I can guarantee they wont be satisfied with how their games perform on Xbox.
Well, hopefully with the next financial report we get more news on how well FF14 on Xbox did. I doubt SE is throwing blind support without some sort of evidence that it's worth it. Although I wouldn't be surprised if SE is just happy to get any additional copies sold on Xbox while being more focused on Nintendo's successor.
I was surprised to hear the producers comments because I read an MSN article that it bombed on Xbox. The article has since been deleted though it seems. I do wonder how well the game is doing. Last time I checked it wasn't even in the top 49 played games but I don't know what SIE considered good. On PSN FF14 is always in the top 50.
Odd release schedule on the Pixel games, came to Steam a good year before it came to Playstation and Nintendo.
will be interesting to see how FF16 runs on the Series S because its running terrible on PS5 yes its 60fps in combat but running at 720p its really jittery out of combat
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