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Final Fantasy 14 is one of the most popular MMOs on the planet, and one of the best-selling games in the series, having over 30 million registered players. Its popularity mostly comes from a healthy PC playerbase, but it’s got plenty of players on console too — and soon it might be getting a lot more.
In an interview with VGC, Final Fantasy 14 producer Naoki Yoshida said that he wants to bring the game to as many players as possible, mooting the possibility of a port to Nintendo’s latest console, the Switch 2. Yoshida has reportedly been “discussing with Nintendo” about the possible port, and said that discussions have been positive.
Yoshida says that while the Switch 2 might not be the right place for raiding or even some story content for existing players, it would be a good pick for some of the more tedious grinding the game asks of players.
“When it comes to existing Final Fantasy 14 players, if hypothetically a Switch 2 version was released, they would have the chance, for example, going through the main story – they could play that on the PC and do raiding on the PC,” Yoshida told VGC. “But when it comes to other types of content, they could sit back, relax on the sofa with the Switch 2 in hand, and they could do their gatherer and crafter content, and I’m super excited about that sort of possibility for our players.”
For new players, the producer expects that it could be a new genre, especially for younger players, and said that he’d be “super excited to get these players into this genre and enjoying the game as well.”
There’s nothing theoretically stopping FF14 from making it over to the Switch 2 in the future. While the game was once exclusive to PlayStation on consoles, it was ported to the Xbox Series X|S in 2024, over ten years after its release on PS3 and PC.
Final Fantasy 16, also previously a PlayStation 5 exclusive and produced by Yoshida, was also mooted as something the producer wanted to be played by as many people as possible. It was ported to Xbox Series X|S in June — and given both it and Final Fantasy 14 are playable on the Steam Deck, which is comparable in power to the Switch 2’s handheld mode, it feels like both are on the cards.
