[STEAM] Final Fantasy 16 PC Global Release Times Confirmed

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is finally almost here on PC and developer Square Enix has shared exactly when players can start playing the role-playing game.

Square Enix confirmed the launch times for each region in an X/

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post, below, across its September 17 release date. Both previously released expansions for Final Fantasy 16, Echoes of the Fallen and The Rising Tide, will be released simultaneously but cost extra.

The RPG has plenty of content on its own, however, as players are thrust into a world where powerful elemental monsters (dare we say summons) live within select vessels known as Dominants, and players, as protagonist Clive Rosfield, must join forces with or take down each and every one.

Not long to go.

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Final Fantasy 16 PC Release Times

• Los Angeles - 7am PDT
• New York - 10am PDT
• Brasília - 11am BRT
• London - 3pm BST
• Berlin - 4pm CEST
• Hong Kong - 10pm HKT
• Tokyo - 11pm JST
• Sydney - 12 midnight AEST (September 18)
• Wellington - 2am NZST (September 18)

Final Fantasy 16 arrives on PC after lots if conflicting information from Square Enix and

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. The original reveal trailer

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and while

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, its status as a PlayStation 5 exclusive was brought into question again in November 2022 when an advertisement for the PS5's DualSense controller said

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. "Nobody said a word about a PC version releasing," he said, incorrectly. "Why is it like a PC version is releasing six months later? Don't worry about that, buy a PS5. Sorry, I went overboard. We did our best, so please look forward to it."

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but "the PC version will not come out in half a year." This is because the team wouldn't be able to start development until the PS5 version launched in June that year.

Finally, however,

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, with the aforementioned September 17 release date. This came after

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alongside other PlayStation exclusives including Foamstars and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, prompting a shift to

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Yoshida made clear in August that

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following this change in strategy, while Final Fantasy 16 director Hiroshi Takai said

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, IGN said: "Final Fantasy 16 is certainly a departure from what fans may expect out of a Final Fantasy game, but its excellent story, characters, and world building are right up there with the best the series has to offer."

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

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