Final Fantasy 16 PC port is a long way away, Yoshida confirms

Full focus on the game’s PS5 release

Marco Wutz | Mar 1, 2023

Final Fantasy 16 PC port is a long way away, Yoshida confirms /

The newest Final Fantasy game, Final Fantasy 16 is finally coming out on June 22, 2023, and will be an exclusive game for PS5 for at least six months. Producer Naoki Yoshida stated that while he would like to release a PC port “eventually”, it certainly won’t happen right after that exclusivity-period is over.

Talking on the Japanese PlayStation blog (translated via DeepL), Yoshida said: “I want to make it clear that the PC version will not be released in six months. Because we have spent a lot of time and money optimizing the PS5 platform in order to deliver the best gaming experience possible.”

The PC version of Final Fantasy 16 might take a long while, so better strap in for the long haul. — The PC version of Final Fantasy 16 might take a long while, so better strap in for the long haul / Square Enix

“Of course, we would like to release a PC version at some point, so that as many people as possible can play the game,” he continued. “However, if we start optimizing the PC version after the PS5 version is released, we won't be able to optimize it in six months, so it won't be released in a short span of six months. We would like to release it eventually, and I think we will, but right now we are not at a stage where we can say when.”

“First of all, we have made the best game in the world, and I would be happy if you could play the PS5 version. If the PC version comes out in half a year, I may quit the company [laughs]. I hope you will enjoy the PS5 version first, without saying, ‘I won't buy the PS5 version because the PC version will be released in half a year anyway’,” Yoshida concluded. He gave no real indication of when we might expect a PC port to come out.

A jokester as always, Yoshida guaranteed that there won’t be any delay for Final Fantasy 16’s PS5 release “unless there is a natural disaster.”

You can read our own Final Fantasy 16 preview for more impressions about the game, but for the moment it looks like Yoshida and his team have definitely hit the mark when it comes to making a game that improves on its predecessor.

Published Mar 1, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg