{"id":1965,"date":"2025-06-21T09:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T09:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1965\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T09:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T09:26:15","slug":"rumour-final-fantasy-devs-supposedly-hint-at-another-nintendo-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1965\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Final Fantasy Devs Supposedly Hint At Another Nintendo Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Final Fantasy XVI\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/01c7eb5647920\/final-fantasy-xvi.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/final-fantasy-xvi.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Final Fantasy XVI\"\/><\/a>Image: Square Enix<\/p>\n<p>Square Enix has supposedly hinted at bringing its latest mainline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/final-fantasy-vii-remake-intergrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Final Fantasy<\/a> game to the Switch 2.<\/p>\n<p>As highlighted by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Genki_JPN\/status\/1936193603837346175\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8216;Genki_JPN&#8217; on social media<\/a>, during a <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Zg-LRoukGVo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">live stream broadcast<\/a>, <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/final_fantasy_xvi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Final Fantasy XVI<\/a><\/strong> producer Naoki Yoshida (aka Yoshi-P) and creative director Kazutoyo Maehiro briefly touched on the game&#8217;s future and how Nintendo is the only platform left to conquer.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s led to plenty of speculation online, with <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/switch-2-port-of-ffxvi-hinted-at-by-naoki-yoshida-and-kazutoyo-maehiro.1224171\/page-3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some Final Fantasy fans already convinced<\/a> a &#8220;Switch 2 port&#8221; could be in the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Before anyone gets too excited, Square Enix&#8217;s current focus is on bringing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/final-fantasy-vii-remake-intergrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Final Fantasy VII Remake<\/strong><\/a> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/final-fantasy-vii-remake-intergrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Intergrade<\/a><\/strong> to the Switch 2 this Winter. The tactical RPG <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/final-fantasy-tactics-the-ivalice-chronicles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles<\/a> is also scheduled to arrive in September.<\/p>\n<p>Following its PlayStation 5 and PC release, Final Fantasy XVI was made available on Xbox Series X|S earlier this month and <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2025\/06\/according-to-sales-estimates-final-fantasy-16-had-a-rough-first-week-on-xbox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s got off to a rough start (in terms of sales)<\/a> as highlighted by our colleagues at <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pure Xbox<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This apparent tease follows on from Yoshi-P previously mentioning how a Nintendo release of Final Fantasy XIV Online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2024\/06\/final-fantasy-xiv-online-director-would-love-to-see-square-enixs-mmo-on-a-nintendo-platform\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">could be on the cards<\/a>. For now, though, nothing has been officially announced or confirmed about either of these Final Fantasy games coming to Nintendo&#8217;s platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Would you be interested in playing the latest Final Fantasy on a Nintendo platform? How about the online release? Let us know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/x.com\/Genki_JPN\/status\/1936193603837346175\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Genki_JPN\/status\/1936193603837346175\">x.com<\/a>, via <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.gonintendo.com\/contents\/49998-rumor-final-fantasy-xvi-devs-may-be-hinting-at-a-switch-2-port\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gonintendo.com\/contents\/49998-rumor-final-fantasy-xvi-devs-may-be-hinting-at-a-switch-2-port\" target=\"_blank\">gonintendo.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Square Enix Square Enix has supposedly hinted at bringing its latest mainline Final Fantasy game to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[496,395,2761,2762,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-1965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-final-fantasy","9":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","10":"tag-rumours","11":"tag-square-enix","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114720642425700610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}