After a decade in the making, Final Fantasy XV will apparently launch on 30th September on the PlayStation 4. The news comes courtesy of Gematsu, who are citing several independent sources for the date. It will apparently be officially revealed during Square Enix's upcoming 'Uncovered' fan event, which is scheduled to take place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on 30th March.
While the rumoured release date remains conjecture for now, it seems more than believable to us. For starters, Gematsu is a great source, so we trust its decision to run this story. If accurate, 30th September is a Friday, which would indicate a worldwide launch. We know that games tend to release on a Tuesday in the United States, but Final Fantasy's a big enough franchise to earn an exception.
Either way, we'll find out for sure in a few weeks' time. It's perhaps worth mentioning that plans can always change, so you probably shouldn't start booking time off work until an official announcement's made. But assuming that this rumour's right, can you wait six or so months to get your Final Fantasy XV fix? Start growing your hair in the comments section below.
[source gematsu.com]
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Would be nice, but we gotta hit that release date for that release date first.
Although I firmly believe it will release this year, I could easily see it being a holiday release. I am fine with it as long as it is this year though, have waited so long a little more is ok. Besides we get NMS in June and I am rather looking forward to playing it, glad this rumor didn't say it was launching around then.
I hope this is true! Won't make me have to choose between this and Zelda for my big holiday console game haha.
Finally. I can then get rid of the save from the demo clogging up my harddrive.
Please be true.
@IceClimbers
That's a good point actually. 2-3 months should be JUST RIGHT to finish FFXV in time for Zelda. Q4 is locked down and covered!
When does the Xbox One version release?
I hate that date, it's like right on the cusp of waiting for the holiday or not. Though I suppose if I save my money from my July birthday I can gt it "in Sept" and still pick up some other games for Christmas.
Anybody think we'll get a PS4 bundle? I was just joking about X1.
@JaxonH Yup. Was afraid I'd have to choose between the two games. No way I'd have time for both! These open world games can get rather demanding on time. Adult responsibilities come first after all!
If this release date is true, then I'll definitely be able make time for both. Not really anything else coming out at the time anyway that's high priority (as far as I know), so this would be perfect for me.
@rjejr Well this date allows them to show off the launch trailer at Tokyo Game Show, which is like 3 or so days beforehand. Perfect timing there.
I'd be shocked if there wasn't a PS4 bundle with this game.
Prepare for disappointment
I was kinda hoping for a summer release, but I'm fine with that as well.
@rjejr Bundle very likely unless Microsoft decides to market it, which is also possible. No one's going to pay attention to the Xbox One version unless they do, innit.
I hope there's a Limited or a Collector's Edition for the game.
I wouldn't mind a 1TB PS4 Limited Edition Bundle either.
The devs want it out as fast as the fans. I don't think square enix will eat the costs for much longer. This is probably the most expensive game they have ever made.
@get2sammyb tbh i forgot its comming to xbox one just like kingdom hearts
@SKC_Diamond Exactly. The sales split on Final Fantasy Type-0 was something like 75/25 in favour of the PS4, and unless Microsoft gets involved with this one, I predict a similar story here.
This game has been so long coming that I just can't give a damn anymore. And that's a shame because the last time we had vaporware of this level was Forever.
Though this is the penalty for announcing Final Fantasy XIII Versus a whole 3 years before the first game is even out. Plus I see feature creep being a big thing in this game, especially after they mentioned the full airships.
I'm surprised they haven't announced Final Fantasy XV 6.8 Lightning Returns when No one wanted her to HD Remaster starring Dante from Devil May Cry.
Yes a HD Remaster announced before the game comes out. If FFX can do it...twice...then I see nothing wrong with this console generation
@BLPs make sense, please.
@get2sammyb Well I guess it's more a matter of a "normal" $350 bundle, or a $400 "collectors edition" like U4 is getting. I'm not paying $400 for a 500GB PS4 in 2016, if I wanted to pay $400 I would have done it 2 years ago. If it's a normal $350 bundle I'm in, though I do already have the game pre-ordered on Amazon w/ my 20% Prime discount, but I can always cancel that.
@IceClimbers "Tokyo Game Show"
Well that makes for a nice launch announcement. And once U4 gets delayed yet again it will release 2 or 3 days before E3.
I'm 145 hours into XCX. I've reached the point where it's time to start looking up things on the internet, even I have a limit to my wandering aimlessly for a piece of driftwood or a right leg. And there's only so many tyrants I want to destroy. FFXV looks to be more story driven though so I'm nto worried about that one. And no matter how many times they say "open world" for Zelda I still don't believe it. At some point they'll probably decide they just don't know how to make Zelda work as open world and do away w/ most of the openness and make it more linear to get it out the door.
Being a massive FF fan I'm hoping it will live up to its hype, but it has some humongous expectations, I actually feel it will be another FF13, I hope I'm wrong but I have learnt not to get my hopes up
Great news. My expectations are that it'll be at least good - maybe I'll be blown away. And I love Friday game releases. Who the hell thought Tuesday was a good idea :/
Now we wait for Persona 5 release date and we hope they don't overlap.
@Feena word ^^ my most wanted games are FF and Persona, hope they dont release anywhere near each other
A bit later in the year than I'd've hoped but I'm just happy it's finally getting released.
YES! I was really hoping it wouldn't get pushed to 2017. Hopefully there will be a collectors edition too.
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