“Awakening” trailer takes flight.
Final Fantasy XVI producer (that’s right, just producer) Naoki Yoshida here. How did you enjoy the trailer? The exclusive footage, comprised of both battles and cutscenes running in real-time, represents but a fraction of what our team has accomplished since the start of development on this, an all-new Final Fantasy game. In that span, the team’s size has grown from a handful of core members to a full-fledged unit that continues to polish and build upon what they have created so far, all to provide players an experience unmatched in terms of story and gameplay.
Our next big information reveal is scheduled for 2021, so in the meantime, I expect everyone to have fun speculating, as we have a lot in store—not only for Final Fantasy XVI, but for Final Fantasy XIV, too. Needless to say, I’ll be working hard on both!
— Final Fantasy XVI Producer, Naoki Yoshida
When Final Fantasy I was released, I was just another player─a young student with big dreams. By the time Final Fantasy V was in the works, I had earned myself a seat at the developers’ table… albeit at the very end. From there, I moved “online” leaving my mark on both Final Fantasy XI and XIV.
And now…XVI.
From the establishment of an all new development environment, to learning the ins-and-outs of the PlayStation 5, the team and I have taken on countless challenges during our journey to bring you the sixteenth chapter in the storied Final Fantasy franchise. And though we’re pouring our hearts and souls into this project each and every day, it may still be some time before we can get it into your hands. However, I promise it will be worth the wait!
— Final Fantasy XVI Director, Hiroshi Takai
LET’S GOOOOO
nice! looking forward to FF16
Ohhh my god the trailer was so good. It was edited perfectly and the audio throughout the entire showcase was movie theater quality. I’m shocked it’s exclusive to PS5 (and PC). Sony was holding out on us, they MURDERED Microsoft.
Probably timed exclusive – still good for Sony :)
Nah. Who will want to downgrade their games to run on series s afterwards? There are literally 20 Square Enix games that came to multiple platforms this year EXCEPT Xbox.
@andrewsqual
Uhh…who said anything about playing on the Series S? I mean if people have the choice between S and X I mean I’m choosing X lol and most of the “exclusive” games Square made, made their way onto Xbox One, with Nier and Dragon Quest XI being their most recent, Not to mention every FF game from 7-15 and the whole Kingdom Hearts collection.
We’ll see when there’s more info, but right now at the end of the trailer it says ** Not available on other platforms for a limited time after release on PS5 ** which to me says it’s a timed exclusive and MAY appear on Xbox down the road.
@xmiketheripper So is FFXIV on Xbox One? I wasn’t aware. /s
@xmiketheripper It will be interesting to see how real-world performance plays out. XBox X has more terraflops, but slower RAM (see how that worked last generation) and a significantly slower drive (PS5 is about 2.2x faster). 20% more terraflops won’t be as big a difference if the CPU and GPU spend time waiting for the RAM or drive to pass what they need. I don’t want to see the specs – I want to see side-by-side performance on games optimized to take advantage of each platform. From what I’ve heard, the PS5 will do a LOT better than average people seem to think.
That’s even ignoring “addons” like the true haptic controller and dynamic triggers – which, if developers use them, could be a huge difference.
It’s too early to pick one or the other based on what will play multiplatform games better. Not too early to pick based on exclusives, though!