It looks like Final Fantasy 16 will be missing something at launch – but you won’t be sad about it

Last Fantasy 16 seems fairly good, ey? Our personal Alex Donaldson had some huge glowing reward for the sport in his preview that went reside yesterday, and (in an earlier preview) I additionally didn’t have a nasty phrase to say about it. By all accounts, that is going to be a stunner. A correct PlayStation 5 tour de pressure. And the builders appear equally as assured within the recreation, too.

In addition to the sensible feedback we’ve seen from the devs because the media tour has been happening (giving us such gems as ‘Last Fantasy 16 goes to have Geordies in it’), there’s been one thing particular in a giant Recreation Informer cowl piece that’s been picked up and run a couple of bit over the previous few days: Last Fantasy 16 just isn’t going to have a Day One patch.

Now, you could be pondering that’s a bit unusual – off the highest of my head, I can’t consider any huge, triple-A recreation of this stature that launched previously few years with no Day One patch. Even Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom had one, so Nintendo isn’t immune from the new-fangled behavior.

Director Hiroshi Takai famous in an interview with Recreation Informer that there are at present no plans to replace the more-action-than-RPG at launch. Takai famous that the sport has been within the works for therefore lengthy (and has had so many delays) that it’s in such a assured spot, it doesn’t want a Day One patch. Fancy that.

This doesn’t imply the sport gained’t get updates. There could also be parts of the title that don’t gel with the general public at massive when the sport launches, for instance, and the builders might need to tune that. The workforce might need to tackle sure problem choices, or re-balance some ludicrous end-game boss when your least favorite YouTuber discovers some disgusting cheese to kill it in a single hit.

No matter occurs, although, it appears like Sq. Enix is fairly assured that you just’re not going to must obtain some egregious 9GB patch earlier than you can begin taking part in on Day One, as a result of this Last Fantasy – a lot in contrast to Last Fantasy 15, for instance – sounds prefer it’s going to be completed at launch.

Last Fantasy 16 will launch on June 22, 2023 for PlayStation 5. There isn’t a phrase on whether or not the sport will come to PC or different consoles sooner or later (nevertheless it will not arrive elsewhere inside not less than six months).