If you are desperately ready to search out out when Final Fantasy XVI is about to land, you won’t have lengthy to attend – a launch date is outwardly coming this 12 months – so both this month or subsequent.

“We plan to publish info yet one more time inside this 12 months, so we could say it at that timing,” Yoshida stated of the discharge date as a part of a brand new interview with Japanese gaming journal Famitsu. “The launch date will not go by means of Summer, in order that needs to be alright,” he provides, referring to the previously-announced launch window of ‘Summer 2023’. 

FF16 was revealed again in September of 2020, and since then there’s been a comparatively regular trickle of recent info on the sport within the type of web site updates, a number of trailers, and a handful of media interviews. In this newest interview, Yoshida dived somewhat deeper on progress on the sport – and the way it’s now hurtling in direction of its launch date.

“In these latest years, I’ve grown accustomed to the web recreation improvement scene, so I used to be a bit stunned now we have to make [FF16] go gold this shortly,” Yoshida laughs. “Produce bodily discs and ship them worldwide… When I take into consideration that, we find yourself taking a number of months of bodily time because the recreation has gone gold. When we are saying improvement progress is at 95%, voices stating ‘Come on, launch it quickly’ could come out, however now we have circumstances like that…

“Right now even when the director [Hiroshi Takai] or artistic director [Kazutoyo Maehiro] say ‘We have to repair this it doesn’t matter what’ – we will not cope with that. All that is left are debugs, optimizations, and screams coming from the Soken-led Sound Team. When their screams are gone, that’ll mark the completion,” Yoshida laughs.

As of proper now, Final Fantasy XVI is just slated for ‘subsequent summer time’. If you’ll be able to’t look ahead to that newest info launch, which hopefully will embody a agency date, we have an entire lot of content material to tide you over ’til then, together with developer profiles, FF16 fight system evaluation, info on the entire FF16 characters, and debates about what makes a FF recreation.