Final Fantasy 14 is at last coming to Xbox consoles, after years of fan requests.
Today during Final Fantasy Fan Fest 2023, Phil Spencer made a surprise appearance at the end of the keynote to announce the news. He spoke about his own enjoyment of the game as well as the close collaboration between Xbox and Square Enix to make the game the best it can be on the console.
Xbox Series X and S versions of Final Fantasy 14 will come with faster loading, and 4K support on the Xbox Series X. It’s currently planned for release in spring of 2024, with an open beta scheduled for patch 6.5. This means that the upcoming new expansion, Dawntrail, will be playable on Xbox when it launches in summer of 2024. Of course, the Xbox release will feature cross-platform play, meaning you can pick up your existing accounts on Xbox and play with others on PC and PS5. You will need to purchase a copy of the game separately on Xbox to play, however (unless you’re enjoying the free trial, which will soon go all the way up through the Shadowbringers expansion).
We learned a lot more today about planned major updates in the Final Fantasy 14 universe, including a ton of new details about the coming new expansion, Dawntrail. Dawntrail will include numerous updates including a major graphical overhaul, new jobs, a “New World” called Tural with a summer vacation theme, and even more.
Final Fantasy 14 itself has been on fire in recent years, ever since it revamped its original experience as A Realm Reborn and released multiple new critically-acclaimed expansions. We gave the most recent expansion, Endwalker, a 9/10 and said of it that, “if this is how Final Fantasy XIV’s showrunners end a story, then I’m more than ready to walk with them from the beginning to the end of the next one.”
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