{"id":455565,"date":"2025-11-09T22:04:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T22:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/final-fantasy-xvi-news-coming-spring-2022\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T22:04:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T22:04:41","slug":"final-fantasy-xvi-news-coming-spring-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/final-fantasy-xvi-news-coming-spring-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy XVI News Coming Spring 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/final-fantasy-xvi-news-coming-spring-2022.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><span><span>Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida took to Twitter for an announcement regarding the game\u2019s development. Citing COVID-19 issues, including how remote work has had impacts on critical aspects of the game development pipeline, Yoshida explained that news about the title has been delayed out of this year and should be expected in spring 2022. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Given that the year is almost over, the fact that this news drop fell out of 2021 shouldn\u2019t be very surprising, and many, many games the world over have been delayed or impacted by COVID-19 in various capacities. You can check out the entirety of the messaging right here in the Tweet below!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tw-align-center twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"pt\" xml:lang=\"pt\">A message from Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FF16?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FF16<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FFXVI?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FFXVI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qtfJUUp6LA\">pic.twitter.com\/qtfJUUp6LA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FINAL FANTASY XVI (@finalfantasyxvi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/finalfantasyxvi\/status\/1475335618905669635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><span>Final Fantasy XVI has big expectations behind it, as does any numbered title in the mainline Final Fantasy series, and what we\u2019ve seen so far has been brief. <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/10\/04\/final-fantasy-xvi-has-expansive-skill-tree-says-producer\"><span><span><span><span>We do know it is supposed to feature an \u201cexpansive\u201d skill tree.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span> While there\u2019s plenty to dig into if you want to hyper analyze small bits of trailer footage, a proper information drop has yet to occur. We\u2019ll see what the new year brings for Final Fantasy XVI! Do you think that Final Fantasy XVI will launch in 2022? Or perhaps a more popular question, which game do you think will end up arriving first \u2013 Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 2 or Final Fantasy XVI? Let us know in the comments!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/12\/27\/final-fantasy-xvi-news-coming-spring-2022\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida took to Twitter for an announcement regarding the game\u2019s development. Citing COVID-19 issues, including how remote work has had impacts on critical aspects of the game development pipeline, Yoshida explained that news about the title has been delayed out of this year and should be expected in spring 2022. Given that the year is almost over, the fact that this news drop fell out of 2021 shouldn\u2019t be very surprising, and many, many games the world over have been delayed or impacted by COVID-19 in various capacities. You can check out the entirety of the messaging right here in the Tweet below! A message from Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida. #FF16 #FFXVI pic.twitter.com\/qtfJUUp6LA \u2014 FINAL FANTASY XVI (@finalfantasyxvi)&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/final-fantasy-xvi-news-coming-spring-2022\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":455566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Final Fantasy XVI News Coming Spring 2022 | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida took to Twitter for an announcement regarding the game\u2019s development. 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