Coming from Gamescom 2015 in Cologne, Germany "Final Fantasy XV" director Hajime Tabata confirmed to GameSpot that fans could expect the release date in 2016.
Further announcement is said to be given before August ends, Tabata said in a statement.
"At the very least, I can tell you that it isn't going to be released this year," "Final Fantasy XV" director said of the game's release date. "I think we'll be able to tell you when we're making the announcement around PAX Prime, at the end of this month."
He then confirmed that the highly anticipated game will most likely going to be released not later than 2016.
"We can certainly say to people: it's not going to be 2017. It's going to be before that," Tabata explained.
Furthermore Tabata reassured worried fans that while not much has been revealed at Gamescom 2015, everything is well laid out.
"I understand why people are feeling that way after coming to Cologne and speaking to a lot of the media," he said. "We really do get the feeling that people are a bit worried. Certainly, one thing I would like to say to them to reassure them, is that we've set down the release date, we know when it is, and we've got a complete road map lined up, right up to launch, and we're proceeding along that as planned."
In line with the release date news, fans are also hoping that Square Enix will finally bring back the "Final Fantasy" saga to PC.
The avid fans of the gaming franchise have launched a petition at Change.Org claiming,
"It's been a long time since we have seen a Final Fantasy game on the PC," the petition read. "With this petition, us PC gamers hope that Square Enix will have a good reason to revive Final Fantasy on PC since it is being developed on PC with DirectX 11."
And while the giant gaming company has yet to release an official statement regarding the matter, IB Times has reported that Square Enix may have just listened to the fans' request as it hinted a "Final Fantasy XV" PC release.
"A teaser demo of Final Fantasy XV has been shown off, hinting that a PC version is in the works," the publication claimed.
Adding, "'Witch - Chapter 0,' was played to show off the capabilities of Windows 10 and in particular DirectX 12, which Microsoft said is capable of compiling six times more polygons than DirectX 11."
