It means that the PC version (because there’s a good chance that there will be one) will be released next December at the earliest and February 2024 at the latest.

The PlayStation 5 has received a new marketing (sizzle) video in which Sony lists when we can expect several highly anticipated games. Square Enix’s game also appears in the short advert, but the accompanying subtitle caught our attention. Final Fantasy XVI was accompanied by the text “Final Fantasy XVI anticipated summer 2023. PlayStation 5 exclusive for six months.” So that’s how long Sony paid off the Japanese publisher with exclusivity (because we’re sure there was a financial element involved).

Square Enix hasn’t yet said when Final Fantasy XVI (which we recently wrote about: we’ll know the exact release date by the end of the year, plus there won’t be many darker-skinned characters in the JRPG) will be released after PlayStation 5, but given that Luminous Productions, for example, is also giving Forspoken a PC version (and on the same day as the PlayStation 5 release), a port sounds logical. The Xbox Series version is a tricky question, but since Final Fantasy XV was originally released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (and it took nearly a year and a half for the PC version…), it might not be stupid to expect an Xbox version.

It can be contradicted by the Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade situation. Its last video, the Final trailer, also mentioned it as a PlayStation 5 exclusive for six months, but when that period expired, only on PC did the extended edition of the first chapter of Final Fantasy VII Remake show up. Since it hasn’t shown up on the Xbox Series since then, it’s impossible to take anything for granted.

We know that Final Fantasy XVI is coming to PlayStation 5 in the summer, and with the development 95% complete, it’s almost impossible that Square Enix will have to announce a significant delay of several months. Perhaps we’ll find out the exact release date at The Game Awards in December.

Source: Gematsu