Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade and Final Fantasy 16 announced for Xbox

Square Enix has announced Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Final Fantasy 16 for Xbox, with the latter out today.

Final Fantasy XVI [167 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/final-fantasy-games/final-fantasy-xvi/”>Final Fantasy 16, which was released as a PlayStation 5 [7,821 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/playstation/ps5/”>PlayStation 5 exclusive in 2023, is out now on Xbox Series X | S [6,345 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/xbox/seriesxs/”>Xbox Series X/S.

VGC’s Final Fantasy 16 review called it “an incredible action game that doesn’t quite deliver the RPG heritage”.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade [44 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/final-fantasy-games/final-fantasy-7-remake-intergrade/”>Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade includes the base game and the Intergrade DLC. No release date for the Xbox Series X/S was given, but it’s coming “this Winter”.

The first part of Final Fantasy 7 Remake [224 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/final-fantasy-games/final-fantasy-vii-remake/”>Final Fantasy 7 Remake was initially a PlayStation 4 [8,263 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/playstation/ps4/”>PS4 exclusive, before coming to PS5 and PC [11,140 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/pc/”>PC more than a year later.

The second part, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth [104 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/final-fantasy-games/final-fantasy-7-rebirth/”>Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, followed suit by initially releasing only on PS5. The PC version of Rebirth was released in January.

Earlier this year Square Enix [944 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/companies/square-enix/”>Square Enix and Nintendo [5,344 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/nintendo/”>Nintendo announced that Final Fantasy Remake Intergrade will be coming to Nintendo Switch 2 [356 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/nintendo/nintendo-switch-2/”>Nintendo Switch 2.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake coming to both Xbox [9,904 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/xbox/”>Xbox and Nintendo platforms points to Square Enix’s transition away from exclusives, something that it has previously suggested has impacted sales.

After revealing in September that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 sales “did not meet expectations”, Square Enix announced plans to “shift to a multiplatform strategy”.