Rumour: 'Whole Slate' Of Modern Final Fantasy Games Expected To Release On Xbox

Probably get the remaster this October/november as that will be a year. 16 early next year and 7 will be a while away I would imagine.

I have been saying this for years, that they would come. In the meantime, I've discovered other precious series on Xbox, like Persona. Tomorrow, the expansion of Persona 3 Reloaded will be available to Game Pass Ultimate subscribers for free. If you haven't played the game and you like RPGs, there is no better time.

This is not a rumour that Xbox users believe conveniently, "multiplatform" owner, but follows what Square Enix has stated.

If I was Square I'd be wanting it on gamepass.

With how late these are coming after PS/PC and how there are less Xbox users I can't imagine sales will be high but GP is at least some guaranteed money.

Oh cool.

(Reads “Jez Cordon suggested”)

Nevermind.

Hope this is true I want pixel remasters be day one buy😎

The mere economics of the thing suggests that it's unlikely that these games would be Sony exclusives forever (Sony would basically have to pay the full development costs to justify it), so really it's far more a matter of 'can Square Enix justify the porting costs'.

Square isn’t missing out on a big audience on the Xbox sphere. Whatever high expectations they have for sells on PlayStation, Xbox can merely just supplement the PS targets. As we all know square always has ambitious sells targets. The reality is that JRPGs are more popular on the Asian consoles. Which is fine IMO.

Man, I hope this is true.

I can see 7 Remake launching simultaneaously on "Switch 2" and Series. Pixel Remaster is out everywhere else, so it could still come this year. FF XVI Complete Edition we may get in 2026 then 7 Rebirth in 2027, with the thought they will want to space the releases.
But the main question is... will Xbox get Forspoken?

Still waiting for The Last Remnant Remastered on Xbox, Square.

I just want to see Pixel Remasters and a release of FF Tactics: The War of the Lions and I'll be good! Perhaps a shadow drop at the Tokyo Game Show later this month for the Pixel Remasters!

It’s situations like this that prompted me long ago to decide to play all my Japanese games elsewhere. Sometimes they eventually get ported, sometimes they don’t; rarer still is the simultaneous launch. It’s a hassle when you want to play something day 1. I just play Japanese titles on one of the Japanese boxes to ensure I don’t miss out. If a particular game is truly ‘that good’ I always have the option to replay it again on Xbox at a future time…if it’s one of the lucky few that get a port.

Some insider information there. "All the games are coming, but nobody's actually making them right now." Didn't we already know all of this sans the claim to have knowledge that 7 is coming, someday in the future if someone ever works on it, vs just assuming?

Square already said they're going cross platform aggressively. We already knew this. This information provides nothing. After the failure of Rebirth they really need to get it on other platforms but I'm willing to be it won't happen until a trilogy bundle is released after the next game releases in 4+ years. Rebirth isn't even dated for PC yet.

I find Xbox such a great value ecosystem in the UK, with game pass and MS rewards I rarely pay for the games I play or own. Keeps me away from PS5 despite having ps1-4 before a series X.

That said, I'd hands down pre-order FF16 and FF7:Re and I think a good amount of Xbox players feel the same way. Definitely becomes a question of when not if, and Jez et al get me hyped every time (even if they are miles away timewise 🤣)

@NEStalgia funny how people will now believe ‘ rumours’ once it’s something positive.

...meh, more rumours about FF on Xbox. I have to start putting money aside every time one of these gets reported, the amount accrued will easily cover my GP Ultimate subscription with change left over😀.

Unless MS has paid to get them on Game Pass, so worth Squares effort as when these don't sell on Xbox. What's Square excuse going to be when a game doesn't sell a billionz copies

Really hoping for Final Fantasy Remake and Reborn. That would would be AWESOME!

I want pixel remasters, but they’re expensive asf even on sale. Wish they’d be on game pass. At least I could use reward points!

@Balaam_ the switch is the only Japanese box. Sony westernized long ago, and they’re struggling mightily in Japan because of it. They get squares big western gambits as exclusives because square is targeting a western audience with those. And that strategy hasn’t paid off.

I know it's not always easy or cheap to port games over to other platforms, but a release of some of the older games on Xbox would seem like a pretty safe investment.

I could see Square Enix seeking Games Pass funding for smaller budget titles like Dragon Quest Builders, FF Pixel Remaster collection, Tactics Ogre Reborn, Valkyrie Elysium, Star Ocean the Second Story etc. Which would give Games Pass a steady stream of japanese games.
But sell heavy hitters like Final Fantasy 7 remake, 16 & future titles at full price.

@cragis0001
Seems like a reasonable approach (although they will want pixel remaster full price, the physical releases is around £70), it would give them a better return getting the money direct from MS rather than trying to sell these games.
To me FF7 remake at least needs to be in the first tranche of full price releases, that's the one that will do decent numbers.

More square enix games are coming to Xbox. Of course games need porting/optimizing for each platform and especially on Xbox since they offer two models (one weaker also; the XSS), so that needs some extra time. Will they be released also on gamepass or not? We 'll see. Square enix stated several times they changed their strategy, after the last entries of Final Fantasy (16 and Rebirth) have flopped by being only PS5-timed exclusive. Look for example Nier Automata (and great game in my opinion) a smaller title where square was publisher selling around 8 million copies (or even more now) by being on every platform. Square enix tried the timed exclusivity way with Sony, they saw it doesn't work, so legitimely they are going 100% multiplatform. Of course it will be better for them since their games will be available to a wider audience. I can't hear BS that their games don't sell on Xbox, since Square enix hasn't yet announced their exact sales of FF7 Rebirth and FF16 on PS5... and it's actually what has driven them again to go multiplatform...

@acmiguens funny thing is, you can get Forspoken on the Xbox PC store. It even has achievements.

@elpardo1984 your probably correct. But I suspect Microsoft would want one the latest big Final Fantasy titles in Games Pass & Pixel collection would be the cheapest. But im sure we will learn more at the Tokyo Gameshow.

@kelomaniack Right. It's very funny to read that multiplatform games don't sell enough on Xbox when PS5 exclusives don't sell enough to begin with.

Considering they were only Timed Exclusives, even if it took a long time, this is less surprising news than Microsoft already working on 2 Transformers projects immediately following the Activision purchase.