{"id":135509,"date":"2026-01-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-195837"},"modified":"2026-01-03T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:00:00","slug":"final-fantasy-xiv-online-director-reportedly-hints-at-nintendo-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/03\/final-fantasy-xiv-online-director-reportedly-hints-at-nintendo-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy XIV Online Director Reportedly Hints At Nintendo Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3e74c6d9e0a4c\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3e74c6d9e0a4c\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"3e74c6d9e0a4c\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Final Fantasy XIV\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3e74c6d9e0a4c\/final-fantasy-xiv.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3e74c6d9e0a4c\/final-fantasy-xiv.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Final Fantasy XIV\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Square Enix<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/final_fantasy_xiv_online_a_realm_reborn\">Final Fantasy XIV Online<\/a><\/strong> director Naoki &#8216;Yoshi-P&#8217; Yoshida has spoken about bringing the popular MMORPG to Nintendo platforms on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n<p>During a New Year chat, he has now been asked once again about the possibility of this title coming to Switch systems and has reportedly told fans to &#8220;please look forward to it&#8221; (<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.livedoor.jp\/umadori0726\/archives\/62900051.html\">thanks, Livedoor<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Yoshida has been talking about bringing Final Fantasy XIV Online to Nintendo platforms for a number of years now. In June 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2024\/06\/final-fantasy-xiv-online-director-would-love-to-see-square-enixs-mmo-on-a-nintendo-platform\">he noted at the time<\/a> how the game could potentially target Nintendo&#8217;s Switch &#8220;successor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/08\/final-fantasy-14-director-has-had-positive-discussions-with-nintendo-on-switch-2-port\">in August last year at Gamecom<\/a>, he mentioned how his team and Nintendo had &#8220;positive discussions&#8221; about the possibility of a port. Keep in mind, there has been no official announcement at this stage for Nintendo platforms.<\/p>\n<p>In the immediate future, Square Enix is focused on bringing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/final-fantasy-vii-remake-intergrade\">Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade<\/a> to the Switch 2 this month.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch-2\/related-articles:171072,167670,186830 @ 1767427668 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Would you be interested in this game on Switch 2? Have you already played it on another platform? <em>Tell us in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Square Enix The Final Fantasy XIV Online director Naoki &#8216;Yoshi-P&#8217; Yoshida has spoken about bringing the popular MMORPG to Nintendo platforms on multiple occasions. During a New Year chat, he has now been asked once again about the possibility of this title coming to Switch systems and has reportedly told fans to &#8220;please look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}