Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida has said he’d like to see a PC version of the game released “eventually”.
Square Enixrecently confirmed aFinal Fantasy 16 PS5 release dateof June 28, 2025, and confirmed that the game will remain exclusive toPS5for at least the remainder of this calendar year.
But a six-month exclusivity period doesn’t mean that the game will make its way toPChalf a year after it hits PS5, according to Yoshida.
“First of all, it is true that Final Fantasy XVI is a six-month limited time exclusive on the PS5 platform,” he told the JapanesePlayStation Blog(translated byGoogle). “However, it is a completely different story that the PC version will be released in half a year. I will make it clear, but the PC version will not come out in half a year.
“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.”
Yoshida added: “First of all, I would be happy if you could play the PS5 version, which I made with the thought of being the best game in the world. If the PC version comes out in half a year, I can quit the company (laughs). Please don’t say, ‘I won’t buy the PS5 version because the PC version will be released in half a year’.”
Separately, Yoshida said Square Enix will hit the highly anticipated game’s planned PS5 release date barring a cataclysmic event.
While the most recent major mainline series entries, Final Fantasy 15 andFinal Fantasy 7 Remake, both suffered delays shortly before their announced release dates, Yoshida is confident history isn’t about to repeat itself.
“I knowFinal Fantasy gamescan get delayed at the last minute,” he said at an event attended byPolygonthis month, but “unless a meteor falls on Japan, there will be no delay.”
The action RPGwas officially announced during a PS5 showcasein September 2020.
It would likely have been released earlier than June 2023, but Yoshida previously saiddevelopment fell almost half a year behind scheduledue to complications stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic.
