Because the one-year anniversary of Ultimate Fantasy XVI’s launch approaches, the sport appears to be approaching the top of assist. The Rising Tide, the second and last piece of DLC for the sport, releases in April, and the PC port is within the last levels of optimization. The belief could be that after each of these are full, the sport would journey off into the sundown. Producer Naoki Yoshida appears to produce other concepts, although, they usually embrace porting the sport to platforms past PC.
Speaking with Noisy Pixel throughout PAX East, Yoshida revealed that followers won’t must bid farewell to FF16 simply but. When requested if it’s powerful for him and the staff to say goodbye to the sport’s characters with the discharge of the ultimate DLC, Yoshida responded by saying, “It’s not over within the sense that we’ve got the PC model. As soon as the PC model is launched, we’re enthusiastic about hopefully transferring to different platforms as effectively.”
Whereas Yoshida didn’t specify precisely what “different platforms” the staff is trying to port FF16 to, the technical necessities to run the sport slim the choices. The obvious candidate for a port could be the Xbox Sequence X|S. Yoshida’s work on Sq. Enix’s RPG franchise has already made its means over to Xbox this 12 months with the discharge of Ultimate Fantasy 14 on the platform. As a big-budget single-player entry within the sequence, FF16 has extra in widespread with one thing like FF7 Remake than with FF14, and Remake is apparently by no means coming to Xbox, however that looks like a particular case.
One other risk is that FF16 may very well be ported to a console we don’t find out about but. With rumors persevering with to swirl across the inevitable successor to the Nintendo Swap, there’s all the time an opportunity a port of FF16 might come to the console. Nonetheless, rumored specs for the Swap 2 put it extra in step with PS4 and Xbox One, so FF16 would nonetheless should be closely optimized (and certain compromised) for the platform. However till Yoshida and the staff share extra concrete particulars, Xbox and Nintendo avid gamers must keep hopeful. PC gamers might be happy realizing they’ll get their arms on the sport quickly sufficient, and PS5 gamers will be capable to say goodbye to Clive and mates when The Rising Tide releases on April 18.
