Final Fantasy 16 announced at the PS5 event?
Final Fantasy 16 and its eventual presence at the PS5 event continues to be at the center of various rumors, with other alleged insiders confirming the possibility that the Square Enix game will be shown during the presentation of sony. other rumors have also emerged on the possible presence of multiplayer and some interesting features.
We now know that the new presentation of PS5 is scheduled for September 16 at 22:00 and according to an initial rumor, Final Fantasy 16 may also be present in it. However, it must be specified that The only potential A clue that emerged until a few days ago, in support of this thesis was given by the simple retweet of the official announcement of the ps5 presentation by Shinji Hashimoto, Final Fantasy brand manager and Executive Officer at Square Enix.
Several other testimonies have appeared in support of this hypothesis: on ResetEra for example you can find several messages that even claim that Square Enix had planned to show Final Fantasy 16 already during the first presentation of PS5 in June, but that the game was then removed from the lineup, along with other titles, due to the reorganization of remote work due to the covid-19 that had prevented preparing the promotional materials in time.
This hypothesis is also carried forward by a couple of insiders who have been verified as potentially aware of relevant information directly by the forum administrators, but it is also clearly denied by others, including ZhugeEX, or analyst Daniel Ahmad, always quite reliable, who claims that Final Fantasy 16 was never planned for the first presentation of PS5, although he cannot exclude a priori its presence at this new event.
In any case, other alleged insiders such as Navtra, who previously anticipated details that later turned out to be exact on the lineup present in the first event dedicated to PS5, insist that the presentation of Final Fantasy 16 has been removed from the first event in favor of Project Athia , but could easily be present in this week's event.Project Athia, in fact, would have been more akin to the core concept of the first presentation of the console, being a project entirely developed on a new technology, while Final Fantasy 16 could be based on an engine more dated.
According to other rumors, the new chapter would be developed by the team responsible for Final Fantasy 14 and could contain multiplayer elements, perhaps with a mode in the style of Final Fantasy 15: Comrades, but it would not be an MMO anyway, as much as a classic chapter Given the recent proximity between Sony and Square Enix, it is also possible that Final Fantasy 16 could be a time exclusive for PS5.
To find out if all these rumors will be denied or not, we just have to wait until 10 pm on Wednesday 16 September, so stay tuned to our youtibw channel to not miss any news and please do not miss to follow the event live with us on our Twitch channel.
