{"id":419897,"date":"2026-04-27T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419897\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:52:10","slug":"final-fantasy-xiv-online-officially-announced-for-nintendo-switch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419897\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy XIV Online officially announced for Nintendo Switch 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, Square Enix have supported the Nintendo Switch 2 with quite a few titles, perhaps the most notable being the release of Final Fantasy VII Remake earlier this year. With its sequel Rebirth <a style=\"color: #980000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kitguru.net\/gaming\/matthew-wilson\/final-fantasy-7-rebirth-comes-to-switch-2-in-june\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">confirmed to also be heading to the handheld hybrid<\/a>, Square Enix have now officially announced that the long-running and highly successful MMO Final Fantasy XIV is currently in development for Nintendo\u2019s platform.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitguru.net\/gaming\/matthew-wilson\/final-fantasy-14-and-final-fantasy-16-could-head-to-switch-2-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Last year<\/a>, in the months following the Switch 2\u2019s launch, Final Fantasy producer Naoki Yoshida expressed interest in trying to bring the ever-popular Final Fantasy XIV to the Switch 2, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitguru.net\/gaming\/matthew-wilson\/final-fantasy-14-and-final-fantasy-16-could-head-to-switch-2-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hoping to have<\/a> \u201cgood news\u201d for owners of the system in the future.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, as part of their recent Final Fantasy XIV showcase (in which they announced the game\u2019s latest expansion \u2018Evercold\u2019) Square Enix <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:aquzm76xau5oikuadmsjbrhb\/post\/3mkbaxub6vj2i?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">officially confirmed that the MMO is set to receive a Switch 2 port<\/a>; arriving this August.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitguru.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bafkreibieaazpuoiqhjkbss7vphvdnzlofl25a3l66kn7s72ep3pn3sy4u_waifu2x_noise0_scale2x.png\" rel=\"lightbox[734830] nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-734837\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bafkreibieaazpuoiqhjkbss7vphvdnzlofl25a3l66kn7s72ep3pn3sy4u_waifu2x_noise0_scale2x-1024x577.png\" alt=\"Final Fantasy XIV Switch 2\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Those wanting to get in sooner may have the opportunity to do so, with Square claiming that they will have some form of Early Access ahead of time. Additionally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/final-fantasy-xiv-officially-announced-for-nintendo-switch-2-planned-release-for-august-2026-requires-separate-subscription-due-to-nintendo.1501222\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the team confirmed<\/a> that players will not need to be subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online in order to play.\n<\/p>\n<p>Given the nature of MMOs, and the fact that FFXIV is well over a decade old at this point (even with various visual refreshes), it would make sense for Square Enix to port the game over to the Switch 2.\n<\/p>\n<p>KitGuru says: Are you looking forward to playing FFXIV on Switch 2? Do you reckon the game will support touch controls \/ mouse mode? Let us know down below.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=17187616\" data-patreon-widget-type=\"become-patron-button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Become a Patron!<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So far, Square Enix have supported the Nintendo Switch 2 with quite a few titles, perhaps the most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[183926,183927,74571,183928,61,60,43,4410,45689,74569,71154,88315,80],"class_list":["post-419897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ff14","tag-ffxiv","tag-final-fantasy","tag-final-fantasy-14","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-nintendo","tag-square","tag-square-enix","tag-switch","tag-switch-2","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}