There's lots of rumours and speculation doing the rounds that the development of Final Fantasy XVI might be a lot further along than one would assume. Bloomberg's Jason Schreier has said that the game is releasing "sooner than people think" after a production cycle that started at least four years ago, and this latest revelation throws more fuel on those flames. On the Square Enix careers website, a new recruitment page states that the basic development and scenario production of Final Fantasy XVI is already complete.
The page reads: "We have already completed basic development and scenario production, and are continuing to create large-scale resources and build boss battles while expanding our various development tools. Also, most of our staff are carrying out their work remotely." Square Enix is now hiring staff to work on the game's world, cutscenes, and character actions. This is nowhere close to confirmation that the title will indeed launch in the near future, but we are supposed to learn more in the new year. A 2021 launch would only help to make the PS5's first year on the market even better.
[source jp.square-enix.com, via gematsu.com]
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It's not called Versus XV, so we can hope they won't restart the development from scratch
I wouldn't be too hopeful about the game not being as far as I currently think it is yet. I'm pretty sure Kazushige Nojima completed the FFVII Remake story scenario and most of the voice acting was recorded at least for the Japanese audio by December 2015 right after the PSX 2015 trailer. Even so, it's the Realm Reborn team, who are definitely more efficient at delivering high volumes of quality content on time compared to teams like FFXV, FFVIIR or KH3
If so, this is the quickest that Square has moved on anything in about 15 years. That's great, and I guess we'll see what the end result is.
Sorry, I need a moment to process that. I'm not used to Square Enix games being announced when they're far into development.
Hm, I’m not convinced that it’s really that far along in the grand scheme of things. Basic scenario production means they’ve probably got a tiny working build and functioning battle/field but with any RPG of this kind, now they need to create every single little detail, art, music etc.
It will be amazing if the game release in 2021, but I think it will release in early or middle 2022.
If this releases in 2021, that will be an insane year for PS5 games.
I'll believe it when I see it.
If it will be released in 2021 or 2022 when FFVII-2 will be released? I don't believe they will be released in the same year...
A release in 2021 could make FF16 a candidate for a PS4 release.
According to the source link (square's website) they still need to do a vast amount of the visuals in the game. I'm pinning it as a holiday 2021 release at earliest and holiday 2022 at the latest.
If this Horizon:FW, GoW:Ragnarok and Ratchet and Clank all launch next year what a great first year that will be!
@710King let’s hope so cause the footage in the trailer looked worse than some current gen games 🤣 FF14 team on this is great though, that game is phenomenal.
@nessisonett The game has been in full development for over 3 years and is getting a full blown event in 2021.
If there is a ps4 version it would probably run worse than the trailer. Imagine being locked at sub 30 fps in the year 2021? Lmao
Nope, 2022 for sure.
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