Even Final Fantasy XVI might be announced as one of the surprised by Sony and Square Enix.

Sony announced on the PlayStation Blog that on September 16, at 8 PM UTC, a 40-minute showcase is going to be aired, and it will feature „updates on the latest titles from Worldwide Studios and our world-class development partners.” You can watch the broadcast on PlayStation’s website, YouTube, or Twitch.

One of the games that might be announced here is likely going to be Final Fantasy XVI. We mentioned this game a few times, and we suspect Project Athia, also announced in June during The Future of Gaming, to be this game undercover. FF XVI was meant to be revealed there, but it didn’t happen – instead, we got other announcements (Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Horizon Forbidden West, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart). Then we also wrote about the @FF16_JP Twitter handle that is most likely registered to a Square Enix email address.

The thing gets interesting at Shinji Hashimoto retweeting the PlayStation 5 broadcast news. He tends to RT announcements related to games he supervises at Square Enix. Keep in mind that he was the producer of Final Fantasy XV, and he was also an executive producer of Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age (the PlayStation 4 remaster of the PS2 original), or Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 1. So Square Enix is up to something…

Ex-GameInformer editor Imran Khan also thinks this is the right time to announce Final Fantasy XVI. The game is allegedly being developed by the team behind Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. Their website has the following artwork and this text: „This project has already completed the initial development, the development environment has been prepared, and we are now in the full-scale large-scale development phase. We are looking for developers who will give the world ‘fun’, ‘fun’ and ‘surprise’.”

We’ll hear answers in a few days.

Source: Gematsu, TwistedVoxel

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