Final Fantasy XV's PS4 Release Date Confirmed for 2016

Don't like the look of this game anymore , back when it was announced as versus 13 it looked a lot darker and grittier than how it seems now !
We need the old skool feel of the older games.

They were testing out VR support for the game at one point as well. Probably one of the reasons why it's taking so long...

Holiday 16........to be delayed into 2017.

So, we essentially have a release date for a release date. Oh, Square.

I'll believe it when I see it. This game is one of the reasons why I bought PS4 at launch, haha.

Sometimes I swear FFXV and KH3 are myths spouted by Square Enix and will never be released haha. So much waiting!!!!!

@NaiveX Did you play the demo? After playing it, I thought it will be the darkest FF since IV or VI. The story seems pretty tragic, the setting dismal. Not to mention THAT cave and the way you acquire Ramuh. I'm super hyped, and, as one who really likes FF XII, I think this will be the greatest FF in a long time.

@fchinaski that's not really difficult as the only competition is 13-2 13-3 and 14 reborn.

I enjoyed the demo but the fighting is rubbish virtually no skill involved, that said the story could be epic.

@fchinaski tbh I didn't give the demo much of chance , literally sat through the winded battle tutorial , then died to some animal .
Probably should give it another go.
Personally I think with the track record of squares recentish releases they should really sit back and have a good hard think about there direction with the fantasies

2016 huh? Release date of a release date? Sounds concrete at last.

Just like how this game was going to be called Final Fantasy XIII Versus, or how Final Fantasy VII wouldn't be remade. Or how Sqaure Enix says a lot of things the moment an idea enters their overworked little heads and delays everything while they work on yet another new title we wont see for 20 years.

@NaiveX I have the impression they wanted to consciously depart from the themes and style from the XIII-saga on XV, and I like where it's heading so far.

Having said that, Square always took bold chances with FF, so I don't hold the XIII saga against them. I HAVE enjoyed those games, even with their flaws.

Battle system aside, I found the FFXV demo closer in tone to older FFs (play it until the end if you can, the epilogue in japanese is beautiful). The battle system reminded me a bit of XII, but less polished. I think they will improve that a lot still. I liked the Warp system, BTW, if they perfect it (as well as the camera, which works very badly on the demo), it can be good.

@fchinaski my favourite combat system is from ffxii too, glad to hear its going to be something similarish

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Let me know when it's November 2016, then I'll check back in for a status update on this game.

Another fun fact, in the same timeframe from this game's announcement till its release next year, Square released Final Fantasy 1 through 7.

Good. I hope they just do what Bethesda did at E3. Don't show anything else until the date is concrete. Just announce it when you're ready and give us a load of information, and then we can go nuts!

But I have a strange feeling Dragon Quest XI might grab a lot of the attention this time around, even more so if it manages to come out first.

@JaxonH I think I'm starting to rub off on you. If this game doesn't get at least 1 delay after the release date is given I'll be shocked. At least I feel like it will come out on PS4 now, so thats something, more than than I can say for Zelda U at this point, at least FFXV is being shown and talked about. Zelda U was there big holiday 2015 title, I understand they told us about the delay before E3, which was nice of them, but they should at least let it out to breathe occasionally.

@rjejr
I have a feeling Zelda will be the big send off title next holiday season, with a good chance of releasing on the next console simultaneously Twilight Princess style.

And I've got the same outlook on Zelda. It'll come, but I'm not really keeping tabs on it yet. I'll check back next November for a status update, provided we don't hear anything at E3.

@rjejr

Difference being Zelda U not being 10 years in the making. And they are barely showing more of this than Zelda.

Anyway, I will be playing Xenoblade X while I wait on those two. And KH3, and FFVII remake, and whatever other 5+ years project Square announces

@sinalefa For me the bigger difference is Sony made the PS4, they can't control when Squenix puts this out. Nitneod made the Wii U which they released 3 years ago, so they know the hardware, and they are making the game to help sell their system, so they should try to sell the Wii U by promtoing this game every chance they get. Leaving it out of E3 entirely was just a really odd decision. They mentioned NX but not Zelda U? How does that help sell Wii U? Squenix can release this on PS4 or PS5 or X1 or X2 or NX, makes no difference to them.

FFXV may not get a lot of new footage, but they have been talking about it seemingly every chance they get recently. The demo even got an update. Will Zelda U even get a demo?

You are right about this being 10 years in the making though compared to Zelda Us probably only 2 or 3 years, I'll give you that, but Ntinedo needs to step it up. They showed it at E3 2014 but not 2015, that makes no sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZmxvig1dXE

Want to guess what it says at the end of that June 2014 vid? 2015.

@JaxonH Zelda better be a main point of E3 2016, even if it is on the NX. That 2014 segment was so exciting, I want to be excited by something again. OK, I'm excited about XCX but I still can't accept the fact that it's Nitnedo and not Monolith, who I go way back w/ to the glorious PS2 days and Xenosaga trilogy. And even earlier when they worked for Square making Xenogears. I'm going to be so disappointed if after naming the Wii successor Wii U they don't come out w/ a game called Super Mario Universe that expands on SMG 1 and 2 and we can call SMU. As long as it isn't a board game.