Is this the end for Final Fantasy on Xbox? - TrueAchievements

It's unclear whether Sony may have paid for any further extension to prevent it from appearing on other consoles, or if Square simply decided that a port arriving now so late in the day likely wouldn't make enough money to be viable, especially in the wake of FFVIIR being a headliner on PlayStation Plus and streamable on PC with the service — it's safe to say that many fans who want to play it probably have at this point, limiting the market for another version.

Hit MMO Final Fantasy XIV makes bank for Square, with millions of players still loving life in and around Eorzea almost a decade after A Realm Reborn first turned around the fortunes of the online game following its initial grim 2010 launch.

Sony and Square have seemed especially tight of late, with not only FFVIIR but new IP Forspoken getting picked up as PS exclusives, but it remains to be seen what this means for the future of FF... will we ever actually see FFXVI on Xbox, or is this just going to be Remake all over again with years of awkward wording that leads nowhere?

The six games are all on PC and mobile already but will arrive on (most) consoles soon, and unless I'm completely underestimating the process, bringing simple 8- and 16-bit classics like these to all modern platforms bar Xbox can't help but feel pointed and intentional.

This is the series' very foundation, games that are as important as slices of history as much as some of them are still genuinely amazing, and given that they've been on countless other systems in the past, it's a bit crazy that Square wouldn't want even more players to experience or relive the formative years of the franchise, especially if the plan was to expand on the universe further in the future.

Sure, we got a remaster of a half-decent PSP game as some kind of weird consolation prize late last year with Crisis Core, and I am actually looking forward to sampling Stranger of Paradise's nonsense at some point, but neither is really a big enough deal to suggest that the series has a future on Xbox.