Final Fantasy 16 producer sparks confusion over PC port, but it's probably fine

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Confusion over whether Final Fantasy 16 is coming to PC has arisen among fans following comments attributed to producer Naoki Yoshida surfaci🦹ng onlin💙e. 

Earlier this week, Yoshida appeared on a to participate in a mahjong tournament with several notable guests who have also worked on FF16 and other Square Enix projects. doing the rounds online, as a result, involves Yoshida commenting on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Final Fantasy 16 coming to PC, where he is as saying that no one has said anything about that before chuckling and telling fans no♔t to worry about it and to buy a PS5 instead – GamesRadar+ has taken a look at the quote, and has come away with the same translation.&🎃nbsp;

some among fans. It’s partly down to humour likely being lost in translation but also due to those comments going against the run of play – Square Enix hasn’t officially announced Final Fantasy 16’s plans, but signs point to a PC port being almost inevitable.

First things first, Final Fantasy 16’s reveal trailer at a PS5 Showcase initially mentioned it was coming to PC before the reference was removed. At the time, I reached out to Square Enix for comment about that and was the developer had “no further inform𓄧ation on if Final Fantasy XVI will be released on platforms other than the PS5” to share at that point. That was the same shoജwcase where the Demon's Souls remake was unveiled. While it also included a scrubbed PC mention, it was swiftly clarified to be an error – to this day, the Demon's Souls remake still hasn’t graced any PC storefront. 

Since then, a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:short PlayStation ad highlighting upcoming games casually confirmed🍒 that Final Fantasy 16’s exclusivity window ꧟on the platform is six months – that mention is still there at the time of writing. One of Final Fantasy 16’s more recent trailers (below) also says the RPG won’t be available on other platforms until December 31, 2023.

Square Enix could just elect not to release the RPG on PC after that period, but we'll wager that's a tad unlikely, given every mainline Final Fantasy game is on Steam. We had to wait nearly 18 months to get Final Fantasy 15 on Steam, but Square Enix hasn't forgotten about PC storefronts since. Final Fantasy 7 Remake came to Steam after a short exclusivity period on the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Epic Games Store, and a whole heap of Kingdom꧂ Hearts games have also been available on that platform since mid-2021.

Square Enix hasn't officially confir🍎med any PC plans for Final Fantasy 16 yet, though, given everything, it's hard to imagine an announcement not coming our way after the PS5 launch on June 22 at least.

We've rounded up some of the year's biggest releases in our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new games 2023 feature, some of which are actually confirmed for PC. 

Iain Harris
News Editor, Games

I joined GamesRadar+ in May 2022 fo🔯llowing stints at PCGamesN and PocketGamer.Biz, with some freelance for Kotaku UK, RockPaperShotgun, and VG24/7 thrown in for good measure. When I'm not running the news team on the games side, you'll find me putting News Editor duties to one side to play the hottest JRPG of 20 years ago or pillaging the depths of Final Fantasy 14 for a swanky new cloak – the more colourful, the better.