Final Fantasy 16will not be available on PC immediately after its six-month exclusivity window with PlayStation 5 ends. WhenFinal Fantasy 16was first announced by Square Enix, many incorrectly believed that the highly-anticipated JRPG would be available on both PC and PS5. It was later clarified thatFinal Fantasy 16will be a pure PS5 exclusive at launch, though a potential PC port hasn’t been completely ruled out.
Like many other third party games that have released as PS5 exclusives,Final Fantasy 16will eventually have the chance to branch out to other platforms. The agreement reached between Sony and Square Enix meansFinal Fantasy 16will be PS5 exclusive for at least six monthsafter its release. The game is scheduled to launch on June 22, meaning the earliest it could come to other platforms would be some time after December 22. It would be highly unusual for Square Enix to drop a big release likeFinal Fantasy 16on other platforms at the end of December, so that means fans shouldn’t expect to see it on anything else until 2024 at the earliest.
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Final Fantasy 16’s exclusivity situation was recently expanded on by producer Naoki Yoshida. Yoshia made it crystal clear thatFinal Fantasy 16’s potential PC portwill not come out this year. According to Yoshia, this is because the development team focused its efforts on optimizing the PS5 version, ensuring that it reaches its full potential. “I would like to release a PC version at some point,” Yoshida added, but fans shouldn’t expect it to come soon after the PS5 release.
This is disappointing news forFinal Fantasyfans that have yet to buy a PlayStation 5, but the message is clear. Anyone that wants to playFinal Fantasy 16this year will almost certainly have to do so on a PS5 console. Those holding out for versions of the game on other platforms will have to wait until 2024, and hopefully they can avoid spoilers forFinal Fantasy 16’s storyin the meantime.
Square Enix itself has already revealed plenty ofdetails aboutFinal Fantasy 16’s charactersand the conflicts they will find themselves in. The game will be returning the series to its high fantasy roots while simultaneously embracing the more action-oriented style of the series' latest releases. Time will tell if it all pays off, but fans will find out for themselves whenFinal Fantasy 16launches exclusively for PS5 later this year.
