Square Enix Wants to Release Final Fantasy XVI on Xbox - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 January 2025 / 6,500 Views
Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida in an interview with Video Games SI stated Square Enix wants to release the JRPG on Xbox.
"Of course we did announce the PC version of the game, so looking towards the Xbox version, we do want to release it on Xbox," said Yoshida.
"But when it comes to the specifics such as when the game would be available and such, we are not in a position to be able to share anything. But of course, I want to say that it’s not as if there’s zero hope, and we very much do want to achieve that. So players should not give up in terms of their hopes."
Final Fantasy XVI released for the PlayStation 5 in June 2023 and for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store last month.
Square Enix last week did announce and release all six games in the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series on the Xbox Series X|S. The series previously released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PC via Steam, iOS, and Android.
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Do it. It would have no trouble on Series X but would need some optimizing for Series S.
How do you know that? It's 16GB 448GB bandwidth vs 8GB's of 224GB bandwidth and 2GB only for OS to use. It's just such a big difference that it's no guarantee it will work at all
Same way PS5 Pro will be able to properly run CPU-heavy games since the console didn't get that much of an upgrade in that area, AI-driven upscaling and machine learning. PS5 Pro uses new proprietary tech with PSSR to make up for the lack of horsepower in certain areas. That's a big part of the consoles marketing.
Xbox consoles natively implement FSR, which is open-source upscaling from AMD. If Xbox has any hope of running FFXVI in any competent way on Series S, they're not gonna be able to rely solely on hardware power like you pointed out.
I have a feeling going forward, AI upscaling and machine learning is going to play a big part in all consoles to help alleviate rising costs while still providing good performance. Supposedly even Nintendo will be taking advantage of upscaling tech with DLSS with the Switch 2.
Until they come out and say, no we can't, we should always assume it will run on Series S. Only reason you do is to be controversial about Xbox. That's all you really do on here anyways.
We should always assume it will run? What about BG3. What about BMW. How many of these do we need to no longer just stop assuming it's going to work. I know BG3 worked in the end, but only with cut features. I don't think we should assume anything
Your 2 examples are games either on the Series S or coming soon. BMW reason for the delay was apparently a memory leak issue which isn't even a Series S specific issue. If you can't even name 1 game that has completely skipped Xbox because of the Series S, then you already lost the argument.
Would probably be an upscaled 720p lol. Although I do agree with adding the games to Game Pass like Sega did. Sega is confident enough about how their games perform on Xbox that they don't put new mainline entries on Game Pass anymore. Probably not gonna happen though as the Pixel Collection would've been added to Game Pass.
Why are they telling us this? Just release it....
Good, 3rd party exclusives are stupid.
All six Xbox users will love it!
Translation: Xbox doesn't want to pay us the money we want for the games to be on gamepass YET so we will wait.
Xbox didn't pay money for the FF Pixel collection or FF14 to be on Game Pass. I doubt that's the case here.
So your two examples are:
-The most successful SE game ever that no company would be comfortable paying to make it "free" (not even MS and their bottomless pockets) but at the same time for SE makes sense pushing for it to be everywhere deal or not because again, is their most successful game ever.
-A mobile game.
Really? lol ok.
It doesn’t really matter how you try to downplay them as that’s still nearly half of all mainline FF games. Only games SE has approved to be put on GP up to this point have been smaller titles or franchises, but not FF. Even with MS’s bottomless pockets, it has to be a mutual agreement.
Is it possible? Certainly, but historically speaking, an unlikely one. Given the cost of development of such a game.
Haven't heard great things about this game so I'll probably only play it if it comes to GamePass like FFXV did. Now if the release FF7 Remake I might consider even though I still think it won't bring the magic of the original.
I'm sure MS is offering them bank to get it onto Gamepass but the biggest challenge will be getting it running on the XBSS. It genuinely could be a BMW situation all over again.
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