Rumor: Final Fantasy XVI and VII Remakes Coming to Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 11 January 2025 / 8,460 Views
The three recent PlayStation exclusive Final Fantasy games - Final Fantasy XVI, Final Fantasy VII Remake, and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - are reportedly coming to the Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2. This is according to sources who spoke with Nate the Hate.
"The game that’s going to be announced finally is Final Fantasy XVI," they said (via VideoGamesChronicle). "Finally, Final Fantasy XVI will be announced for the [Xbox] platform, and I suspect it’s going to be very similar to what we had with Death Stranding… I think it will be a shadow drop. Playable right away following the presentation, with both expansions, and hopefully at somewhat of a discount.
"I think they’re going to go one step beyond… I think following the announcement of Final Fantasy XVI we will see Square Enix confirm that Final Fantasy VII Remake and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will be coming to Xbox.
"My speculation is that this announcement will take place during the Developer Direct. But I can confirm that Remake and Rebirth will be coming to Xbox. Final Fantasy VII Remake will be released in 2025, Rebirth will follow in 2026. These games will also be coming to Nintendo Switch 2."
As always this should be treated as a rumor until an official announcement is made.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Makes sense. Final Fantasy games absolutely need to be on Nintendo systems with how much Nintendo dominates Japan. Nothing else makes sense for them.
Switch dominates.
Not the switch2
Slowenberg said Nintendo dominates japan
SE imagined a situation similar to Resident Evil or EldenRing where they expand the western audience way more then their Japanese. ... but that hasn't quite panned out. Either way Nintendo finally having a system which offers a comparable experience to modern AAA efforts will make a lot of Japanese publishers decision making way easier.
It's full circle.
Did anyone else initially interpret the headline that FFXVI was being remade and said to yourself WTF? Haha
If they're all coming at Xbox,
They'll add some sales hopefully porting it was cheap so that they could actually get profit from Xbox low software sales
I wouldn't be too surprised to be serious.
how much you guys wanna bet FFVII Remake+Rebirth isn't coming to NSW2? I'm not looking to bet bc ik ill just get humbled...though i do feel a little bit confident that these two parts of the trilogy will not be arriving to NSW2 anytime soon.
I see no reason for Remake miss Switch 2, but Rebirth will need to have a downgraded version it's a very demanding game even for PS5. Maybe targeting 720P and 30 FPS
My main concern is the exclusivity contract that had been signed. While it is reasonable to assume timed exclusivity, it really does sound like -- based off SquEnix's aggresive rhetoric -- Sony did get a very good deal with these titles, and SquEnix is really regretting their decision.
ofc this is not a very strong argument...tho that's kinda what the pessimist inside of me is saying. Final Fantasy would sell several millions in JP alone if it were on NSW2, and I have no doubt SquEnix desperately wants this series back on Nintendo hardware...but their hands might be tied.
It’s very likely they don’t have exclusivity contracts at all anymore(and have not for a considerable period of time) and Square have simply not bothered to port them. FFXVI was a 6 month exclusive, this was openly revealed by Sony, and it took 15 months to come to PC and simply hasn’t been ported to Xbox at all so far.
I think people don’t realise how poorly these games are likely to do on other platforms. FFXVI sold around 3M at launch on the PS5, and on Steam it’s so far sold around 330k, and Steam has a big market for Japanese games, Steam’s biggest user base is non-japan Asia. I suspect that many people will be very surprised at the sales these games would manage on the Switch if they got ported, and Square probably have a very good idea of their potential sales through their own internal analysis.
hmm looking at recent Dragon Quest figures, i beg to differ. Tho ig we’ll see with time.
It will come on switch 2 but CLOUD VERSION hahaha streaming
Hahaha nope hahaha ☝️☝️☝️
I was honestly surprised FF16 didn’t come to Xbox at release or at least close to it. FF7 remake felt like it was a PS exclusive for nostalgia reasons so good to see it come to Xbox.
FF16 in particular deserves a lot more love, so hoping it does well on other platforms and maybe this will even create a second wind on Playstation... The game has all the markings of a 10million seller on that platform alone ala God of War. I just think the FF name and branding comes with a lot of baggage nowadays, new players find it intimidating to approach and old fans feel disenfranchised
I'm curious as to what the motivation would be to put games on Xbox. Switch and Switch 2 make sense, but Xbox is a non factor at this point. Microsoft themselves don't appear interested in selling Xbox hardware.
30m extra customers
they will not come to the switch, but if they come to switch2 they would probably outsell ps5 totals
Game Pass is Microsoft's focus. They themselves are moving their games to non Xbox platforms. The sales of the Series platforms isn't the playerbase that's buying games.
Just said this in another thread as well: by now gamepass is just one stream of revenue among others, not their main focus anymore. In my humble opinion.
We'll Xbox currently has 30M more consoles in the wild than Switch2 so I fail to see your point.
Yes Xbox has sold way less than PS... but there are still 30 Million units out there bud
Going to be real interesting seeing how the XBSS version of FF16 and 7 rebirth looks and runs.
The Series S runs Hellblade 2 and Indiana Jones.
That doesn't mean a third party in Square Enix is going to have the same talent level and familiarity to make the Xbox S and Switch 2 versions running great. The PS5 base version doesn't run great, not smooth and blurry. SE has also released poor versions of Final Fantasy on pc in the past.
If the Series S can run Stalker 2, a UE5 game that's a buggy mess, it will run FF7.
Probably very well like most of the games ported on the Xbox Series S...
You can't help but add a touch of cynicism to posts about positive news and good things for non Sony platforms lol.
I know it looks like that, but rapsuperstar expanded on what I was trying to say. Even the PS5 version struggles in both games
Btw, are you really still stuck in plat or did you just not bother changing your name?
Still stuck in plat. I'm actually getting lower and lower in rank as the skill level goes up overtime
Its going to run about the same as a Switch2...
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