Closing Fantasy 14 is finally coming to Xbox consoles, after years of fan requests.
Right now throughout Closing Fantasy Fan Fest 2023, Phil Spencer made a shock look on the finish of the keynote to announce the information. He spoke about his personal enjoyment of the sport in addition to the shut collaboration between Xbox and Sq. Enix to make the sport the perfect it may be on the console.
Xbox Sequence X and S variations of Closing Fantasy 14 will include quicker loading, and 4K help on the Xbox Sequence X. It is presently deliberate for launch in spring of 2024, with an open beta scheduled for patch 6.5. Which means that the upcoming new enlargement, Dawntrail, will probably be playable on Xbox when it launches in summer time of 2024. In fact, the Xbox launch will function cross-platform play, that means you may decide up your current accounts on Xbox and play with others on PC and PS5. You will want to buy a replica of the sport individually on Xbox to play, nevertheless (except you are having fun with the free trial, which can quickly go all the way in which up by means of the Shadowbringers enlargement).
We realized much more at this time about deliberate main updates within the Closing Fantasy 14 universe, together with a ton of recent particulars in regards to the coming new enlargement, Dawntrail. Dawntrail will embrace quite a few updates together with a serious graphical overhaul, new jobs, a “New World” known as Tural with a summer time trip theme, and much more.
Closing Fantasy 14 itself has been on hearth in recent times, ever because it revamped its authentic expertise as A Realm Reborn and launched a number of new critically-acclaimed expansions. We gave the newest enlargement, Endwalker, a 9/10 and stated of it that, “if that is how Closing Fantasy XIV’s showrunners finish a narrative, then I am greater than able to stroll with them from the start to the tip of the following one.”
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