Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida has said he believes it would be better if there was just a single game platform.
According to anIGNtranslation of aninterviewwith a Taiwanese YouTube channel, Yoshida said it would be better for developers and players alike if there weren’t competing console platforms.
“Game platforms… I probably shouldn’t say this, but I wish there was only one,” he reportedly said. “It would be better for both the developers and the players.”
SonyandMicrosofthave both secured a number of third-party titles as console exclusives over the years. One of the most notable examples of this is thePlayStationmaker’s ties withSquare Enix, which in recent years have seenFinal Fantasy 7 RemakeandFinal Fantasy 16excluded fromXbox.
Square Enix announced last month that Final Fantasy 14, which Yoshida directed,will finally be released for Xbox consolesnext year following a decade of PlayStation console exclusivity.
Final Fantasy 16 was released forPS5in June, and Square Enix has confirmed that itwill remain exclusive to Sony’s consolefor at least the remainder of this calendar year.
Prior to the game’s release, Yoshida said he’dlike to see a PC version of the game released “eventually”.
“First of all, it is true that Final Fantasy 16 is a six-month limited time exclusive on the PS5 platform,” he told the JapanesePlayStation Blog. “However, it is a completely different story that thePCversion will be released in half a year. I will make it clear, but the PC version will not come out in half a year.
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“This is because we spent a lot of time and money optimizing the PS5 platform to deliver the best gaming experience. Of course, I would like to release a PC version at some point so that everyone can play as many games as possible.
“However, even if we start optimizing the PC version after the PS5 version comes out, we won’t be able to optimize it in half a year, so it won’t come out in a short span of half a year. I would like to release it eventually, and I think I will, but I am not at the stage where I can say when.”
