Remaining Fantasy 16 is a PlayStation 5 title and one of many larger exclusives of the yr. Nevertheless, it wasn’t all the time set as a PS5-specific recreation, as a Remaining Fantasy 16 PS4 port was as soon as deliberate.
A Remaining Fantasy 16 PS4 model would have taken too lengthy
Producer Naoki Yoshida revealed this in an interview with Remaining Fantasy Union. Close to the tip of the interview, Yoshida, who beforehand defined the presents Sony gave Sq. Enix for exclusivity, famous that Remaining Fantasy 16 was a cross-generation title at first, however the group ditched the outdated {hardware} as a result of it could take an excessive amount of time to work with.
“We initially had a plan to probably launch the sport on the PlayStation 4,” mentioned Yoshida. “Throughout improvement, we realized that, so as to get it to a degree that we have been gonna be pleased with, we might have wanted not less than one or two extra years of improvement to try this. And so I needed to decide at the moment. It’s like, we don’t need to prolong it that lengthy. Let’s go PS5 solely.”
The tide is beginning to change with video games just like the Lifeless House remake, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and Forspoken, that are all current-gen exclusives, however many publishers are nonetheless opting to place video games out on each units of methods. Even Sony’s final massive exclusives like God of Warfare Ragnarök and Horizon Forbidden West got here out on the earlier console. Nevertheless, Sony is simply beginning to extra totally transfer away from PS4, as Horizon’s Burning Shores DLC, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and Marvel’s Wolverine are all solely on PS5.