A big MMORPG is making its way to Xbox consoles. Final Fantasy XIV is heading to Xbox Series X|S.
Xbox head Phil Spencer took the stage at Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest today alongside XIV director and producer Naoki Yoshida to announce the news. It will have 4K support on Xbox Series X, and have “faster loading” too. An open beta is scheduled for 2024, during the 6.5X patch cycle. It will also be a digital-only release.
No mention was made of Xbox One, so it looks like that platform won’t be getting access to Square Enix’s MMORPG.
Spencer says he sees this as a “seminal moment” with the Final Fantasy team, and hopes to collaborate more with them in the future, which is sure to set speculation ablaze. Square Enix CEO Takashi Kiryu took the stage too, reaffirming a desire to collaborate more with Xbox. This could be interesting to see pan out, with the historically PlayStation-focused Final Fantasy series.
A new world
The Xbox news arrived during an information-filled Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest presentation. Yoshida and the XIV team unveiled its plans for 7.0, the Dawntrail expansion, which heads to the New World of Tural. A bunch of new content is coming, including two new DPS jobs.
And for those incoming Xbox players, the amount of XIV content immediately available is expanding too. The famous free trial of Final Fantasy XIV is expanding to include its Stormblood expansion. That’s a ton of extra content for incoming Xbox players to dig into, or any aspiring Warriors of Light to check out on PC or PlayStation.
Published: Jul 28, 2023 01:45 pm