Current director of Final Fantasy XIV and producer of Final Fantasy XVI, Naoki Yoshida (better known as Yoshi-P) recently interviewed Japanese clothing brand Uniqlo magazine to commemorate the launch of the Final Fantasy franchise T-shirts, which will be launched in the coming months of this year.

In addition to fashion, however, the big news came from the highlighted words he used during the intervention, where, as some Reddit and Twitter users have already pointed out, the manufacturer assured that Final Fantasy XVI was close to completing its development. More than welcome news due to the great silence we saw in the game after the last announcement of a small delay that could postpone its launch from 2022 until next year.

In particular, the complete extract from Yoshida presents the following: “Now, The development of Final Fantasy XVI is in its final stages. As a single player game, we try to integrate the story and gameplay even more. In a very different way than in a game that everyone plays online at the same time, the games that you play as an individual change in terms of immersion in the story. People who grew up, entered society and the world of work and thought that reality is not as simple as a video game, and eventually broke up with Final Fantasy, we want to remind you of your passion at the time. With that in mind, we make a game«.

Unfortunately at the moment we still don’t count confirmation of not only its specific date, but even its starting frame. And this is undoubtedly one of the great exclusivities that Sony consoles will receive in the near future, along with the already dated God of War Ragnarök, Howards Legacy or Forspoken and Dragon Ques XII, also from a Japanese developer.

So we have nothing left but wait for the next big State of Play eventprobably at the beginning of the summer, which would cover part of the absence after the already canceled E3 2022.