Final Fantasy 16 Director Says He'd Like To See The Game On Xbox

Not a FF fan, but I would be tempted to at least try it if it does come.

Seems like pretty much a lock at their current trajectory.

Might end up double dipping on the game for PC though. I already bought and started playing up to half way through or a little beyond or so on PS5, and even bought the DLC on PS5, but now that I'm rebuilding around PC, and the game ran like chocobo dung on PS5, I think a PC version is kind of necessity for me at this point. Hopefully it doesn't run as badly as XV did. Sucks to throw away so much game progress though, not looking forward to redoing a few of those fights. It's a pretty good game. A horrible Final Fantasy game, but if you close your eyes, pretend it's not called XVI, and pretend it's a spinoff sequel of Stranger of Paradise, it's pretty good.

Very easy to do just make an Xbox version he totally has the ability somebody should tell him poor chap🥺🐂💩

@Ricky-Spanish They couldn't even get the completely exclusive PS5 version to perform well. It's harder to do for them than you might think. Lets' see how much of a trainwreck PC is first.

@NEStalgia Maybe they should lessen there vision one can't have everything you know 👏

It is evident that the game has fallen far short of the expectations they had, I guess that as soon as possible they will bring it to all possible platforms.

Although at this point, and especially with the stacking of releases in this and next year, I don't think many players will play it on Xbox. Maybe if it comes to Gamepass at launch it will reach a lot of players, but I don't think that will happen.

@NEStalgia it's crazy to me the game doesn't hit 60 (when it should), one of the few games where it really bothers me.
Haven't played it again for about a month now. If I just finish it I can start Spider-Man 2 already...

Not interested at all.

I would, however, play VII.

I just want another turn based Final Fantasy.

JRPGs were where I always went when I needed to let my brain calm down from frantic, fast paced, games. And now they're just turning into generic action games.

@Cherip-the-Ripper It's built on a spinoff of the XIV engine which is a spinoff of Luminous. XIV runs buttery smooth. Everything else Luminous runs like hot garbage. The fps problems are weird though. Like, performance mode massively downgrades visuals until it's VERY low resolution, low textures, low LoD. But still drops into the 30s, even 20s. I'm guessing it's CPU bound and dropping the visuals doesn't help. But how does a PS5 exclusive game become CPU bound?!? And even if it targets 30fps, why would anyone design an action slasher around 30fps? With one platform? And even 30fps has terrible frame pacing so it feels more stuttery than it shoud .

@Ricky-Spanish What amazes me is this came on the heels of XV that was too ambitious and also ran horribly. It was produced by YoshiP who had to clean up the mess of the overambitious XIV and turn it into something good. Then he does the same exact thing with XVI. There's something in the water at S-E.

I don't know why Square-Enix wouldn't want to release FF16 on Xbox? Even if it only sells a million copies, that's still a million more copies right? Besides changing some button prompts, how hard or expensive can it possibly be to port the game to Xbox from PS5 considering their architecture is 95% the same?

Square-Enix has said multiple times that they were going to finish the PC port before focusing on other console ports. There is no way the Xbox port comes before next year. Maybe they will use the same 'early next year' phrasing they used for Octopath Traveler II...which didn't come out until July

@NEStalgia I posted results over on Push Square from a "quick and dirty" test of the PC version on my new machine:
Ryzen 7800X3D, 32GB RAM, Nvidia 4070 Super, and running off a Samsung 990 Pro M.2 drive (up to 7.4GB/s Read speed)

Running Ultra settings (which the game defaulted) and Native 1440p/DLAA/Frame-gen Off I get anywhere from 58 - 75fps (sometimes 80fps and at one point dropped to 40s).

The game seems to do the exact same thing as the PS5 in Performance Mode where combat encounters perform higher and then drop when exploration kicks back in.

If I turn on Frame-Gen but still keep the game at native resolution with DLAA, it also seems to get into the 90 - 100+ fps range.
If I turn on DLSS Quality, it seems to be in the 90fps range.

Dynamic Resolution Scaling is also an option, but I had my framerate set to 165 and I think it was trying to scale to meet that framerate and the image got incredibly soft.

I am sure I could probably drop to 60 instead and get a much better image closer to 1440p and get a locked 60 - but I would have to play with settings a little more.

Cutscenes are locked to 30fps (and I had one that ran at 59fps for some reason).

Bottom line, the game is actually quite heavy on resources without looking any different from the PS5 version (will need Digital Foundry to point out any enhancements over the console version).

It does run better than the PS5 (with the right settings), but it certainly will require leveraging reconstruction to keep things 60+fps at all times (and rendering resolution doesn't end up being any better than the PS5 version in Performance Mode - at least when using a 4070 Super). Thankfully DLSS does a significantly better job of making the game look native resolution.

On topic: It's good to know that the director wants to have the game on Xbox!

I said it (before VII Xbox port), all Final Fantasy would end up on Xbox eventually, especially after a Windows version. They changed their mind after lacklustre sales as PS5 exclusives. By the way, the Xbox One X version of Final Fantasy XV does run very well, even better on Series X.

Unless it comes to game pass then I don’t think anyone will play it on Xbox