Final Fantasy XVI - General News Thread

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Storm

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Naoki Yoshida has my utmost respect, FFXIV turned out to be one of my favorite experiences inside the franchise, thanks for his efforts to fix a sinking ship.

that seems like a FFXIV artwork, definitely the same artist imo. I think we can expect a medieval title.
 

T.O.T

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The thing that strikes me about this is that SQEX might be announcing this soon. I mean, if they can announce Nier Automata a year after beginning development, announcing something when they're actually pushing into main development would be an improvement.
I'd rather they just keep quiet on things until the game is close to going gold. Despite the criticism that SE has gotten in the past decade +, they still have a lot of clout. They know they can make the sales figures especially with their marketing timing being so poor in the past.
 
FFXIV Director Says Final Fantasy XVI Should Be “Straightforward Fantasy”
First, if you’re asking whether the Final Fantasy series will get another MMO soon, I think the chances are unlikely so long as Final Fantasy XIV is doing well. On that note, personally speaking, I’d like to see a Final Fantasy that is straightforward fantasy, one that doesn’t have much machinery, and with no mecha in it. After all, we’re having trouble with the Garlean Empire being too powerful. Ah, okay, that was a bad joke.
Blessed Yoshida, speaking the truth right here.

On an unrelated note, I'd like to see the game also pine more for a warmer, brighter and "poppier" colour palette. From what I've seen of XV (which I haven't played, so my impressions are limited to YT videos) and of the VII Remake, the games look kinda... cold and muted. Which I think is a shame.
 

Bazztek

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In 4gamer and Famitsu YoshiP gave some comments regarding his 2020 plans.
https://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999905/20191220005/index_5.html#sqe_yos
来年はまた更なる飛躍を目指して、突進していく年になりますので、FFXIVだけでなく第三開発事業本部の動きにも、ぜひぜひご注目ください。新ハードも発表されましたし、熱い1年になりそうですッ!!

Naoki Yoshida: "Next year we will be busy aiming to take a leap forward, so please keep an eye on not only FFXIV but also the developments of the 3rd Development Division. New hardware has been announced and it's going to be a hot year!!"

 

Bazztek

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There's been a whole bunch of rumours that FFXVI is gonna be revealed at the PS5 event in a few hours today, if so, see you all on the other side!
 
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Lulcielid

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The fact that the game is being developed by one of their subsidiaries makes it doubtful for me, I doubt the game will end up being FF16, I belive that ever since they decided to move production of FF7R to in-house development Square would likely want to keep making the mainline games in-house.
 

Jenova

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A wise move. People are still focused on the Remake. Best not take attention away from that right now. Plus, Final Fantasy is no longer a Playstation exclusive franchise so it being revealed now isn't inline with its current branding. I expect either the Japanese gaming this (or next?) month may have a reveal. Otherwise, I could see them revealing at it TGS this year after both next-gen consoles have released.
 

Bazztek

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So it sounds like the rumours of FFXVI being at the PS5 reveal event were false afterall, many games media people like Imran Khan formerly of GameInformer, Jason Schreier and ZhugeEx/Daniel Ahmad have said that XVI was not ever meant to be shown to begin with. Imran Khan even said every rumour he heard about "XVI" is actually what was shown for Project Athia, which isn't XVI let alone a Final Fantasy.


In a now deleted thread over on Resetera Jason said that XVI was not pulled from the show, and Imran, Jason and ZhugeEx all essentially confirm that.










However even aside from all of this, my own personal feeling is that the PS5 reveal should have been where FFXVI was revealed, the timing now was the time, like 2006 for FFXIII at the start of the PS3 era was, and 2013 for FFXV at the start of the PS4 era was, so even if FFXVI was never actually planned to be shown at the PS5 reveal, I still think XVI will be revealed before the PS5 launches, or at the very least I think that SE should reveal XVI before the PS5 launches.

Whatever Yoshi-P's project is I don't doubt it is FFXVI, even if he denied the recent rumours that state he is the director, he didn't actually deny being involved in it, only that the rumour stating he was director is fake, so he could just as easily be involved in it as a Producer or Executive Producer, and with that project having been in development for a few years now, even longer than Project Athia has been in development for, I think it could fit into SE's 2021 FY.

I'm not expecting FF7R Part 2 until at least 2023 at this rate, they've said they are still in planning for that only months ago and don't even know what they want to put in Part 2 yet, and it's not like they can reuse any location assets or anything from Midgar for the rest of FF7's world so it would take them just as long to make whatever location assets they need, and they still have to create entire systems for Yuffie, Cid, Cait Sith, Vincent and to finish Red XIII, which would take just as long to do as it did for Cloud, Barret, Tifa and Aerith once they had decided on the combat direction. The 7R team are also really slow, as is the KH3 team, especially compared to Lumionus Production/the FFXV devs who made much higher quality content in much shorter time, so I don't see FF7R Part 2 taking any less than 3 years to make, same for whatever the next console KH game is.

So the way I see it for 2021 what big game could they release from their Japan studios? Yoshi-P's project has been in early development since at least 2015 following Heavensward, and entered full scale development in 2019, by 2021 that's around 6 years of development which is plenty for a AAA game, the Luminous team also has started creating Project Athia's actual content in 2019 after they had done initial planning and setting the foundation for it in 2018, so that too could hit within the next 2 years given that FFXV only took 3 years and 4 months to make from scratch on Luminous Engine, while they were still making the engine at that. Whatever new console KH game is coming sounds even less further in development than FF7R Part 2 does, and KH3 itself already took 5 years to make on UE4, and FF7R took 6 years to make on UE4, both of which had heavy pre production matieral already created thanks to prior games too.

So I think FFXVI will be revealed before Holiday 2020, and could very well come out in 2021 or early 2022 hitting the 2021FY assuming it is actually progressed far enough in development, otherwise what other SE Japan AAA game does SE have?
So 2021 either FFXVI/Yoshi-P's project releases, or Project Athia does
2022, again either XVI/Yoshi-P's project or Project Athia
2023 FF7R Part 2
2024 next KH console game.
DQXII can slip in somewhere between those years too.
 
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