[News] Final Fantasy 16 PC port still in the works, but there’s an issue

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Series producer Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida’s comments come from a recent Final Fantasy 16 livestream where multiple Square Enix developers talked about the next game in the series, with content creator ‘Genki‘ watching the event and providing rough English translations of what was said. “Yoshi-P says they want to make a PC version of FF16 but they want to create an experience with seamless loading, so they didn’t have enough time to optimize for PC. He says when the time comes, they will talk more about it.”With the Final Fantasy 16 PC port a little up in the air in recent months, this clarification from Yoshida is sure to ease a lot of worries. While Final Fantasy 16 is being built for the PS5 by Square Enix, the company did also say that a PC port would be on the way at some point.“I’ve caused a bit of a stir with my remarks, but I’d like to touch on the PC version,” Yoshida explained earlier this year. “First of all, it is true that Final Fantasy 16 is a six-month limited-time exclusive on the PS5 platform. However, it is a completely different story that the PC version will be released in half a year. I will make it clear, but the PC version will not come out in half a year.” With FF16 mere days away, the six-month exclusivity period would end at the very beginning of 2024, which means that the PC port will be dropping sometime next year at the earliest. You can check out the FF16 stream with Yoshida’s comments below but do note that it’s in Japanese.“I would like to release a PC version at some point so that everyone can play as many games as possible,” Yoshida continued at the time. “However, even if we start optimizing the PC version after the PS5 version comes out, we won’t be able to optimize it in half a year, so it won’t come out in a short span of half a year.”

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