Final Fantasy XV Pocket Has ‘A Chance’ of Coming to Switch

“We’d have to think about what the meaning and what the significance of bringing this to Switch would be.”

By Andrew Goldfarb

Square Enix has hinted at a potential future for Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition on Nintendo Switch.

Speaking to IGN at Gamescom, Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata didn’t rule out the possibility of the recently-announced mobile version coming to Nintendo’s console.

“There is certainly a chance. It’s certainly not zero,” Tabata told IGN when asked about a Switch version. “Obviously we’d have to think about what the meaning and what the significance of bringing this to Switch would be. You know, whether people would want to play it and whether it would be the right thing to do for our team.”

Tabata added that as it stands on mobile, Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition “doesn’t actually have controller support.” As such, if it does eventually come to Switch, FFXV Pocket Edition may potentially have to be one of Switch’s handheld-only titles rather than alternating between docked and handheld mode like other Switch games.

This isn’t the only time this week that Tabata hinted at a version of XV coming to Switch. Speaking on Twitch’s Gamescom live show, Tabata said, "We very much do want to move out and do as much as we can with the game, with the franchise. There's another certain console out there people may be thinking of. It sounds a little bit like you guys, your name, Twitch. I think we'll just leave it there.”

"Everyone on the Final Fantasy XV [team], they love this specific console that sounds a lot like Twitch, so you may want to think maybe about something about that in the future,” he added.

Final Fantasy XV was released on PS4 and Xbox One last year, and a PC version was announced earlier this week. Also at Gamescom, Square Enix announced Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition, a retelling of the game’s story told across 10 episodes, which has currently only been confirmed for mobile devices and Windows 10.

Andrew is IGN’s executive editor of news and hopes every game makes adorable chibi versions. You can find him rambling about Persona and cute animals on Twitter.

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