Game Pass is still missing most of the Final Fantasy games Microsoft has promised

At the end of 2019, Microsoft announced 10 Final Fantasy games would come to Game Pass the following year. At the beginning of 2021, most are still missing, although Microsoft says they will eventually come.

During the X019 live stream event in London at the end of 2019, Microsoft announced a lot of great games comes to its Netflix-esque subscription library Game Pass. These new games, including each Final Fantasy from VII to XV (excluding the MMOs), would arrive “this holiday and in 2020.” Only from now on, almost 14 months later Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX, and XV is added. Reddit is full of wires of players asking when the rest will finally arrive. It is a real bummer Final Fantasy XIII looks spectacular on newer hardware, and the spin-offs are ripe for rediscovery.

In a statement to TrueAchievements, a Microsoft spokesperson did not acknowledge the apparent delays, but said the other Final Fantasy games are still on track to ever come to Game Pass. “As we announced at X019, we are delighted to announce the Final Fantasy franchise to gamers with Xbox Game Pass, ”said the spokesman. “We did this in 2020 and will continue to do so in 2021 and beyond. We look forward to announcing specific launch dates for more Final Fantasy titles in the future. “

Square Enix has remastered some of its older models in recent years Final Fantasy games and port them to new platforms. Final Fantasy X, first released on PS2 in 2001, was remastered for PS3 and Vita in 2013, and eventually ported to Xbox and the Nintendo Switch in early 2019. More recently, Square released an excellent remaster of it Final Fantasy XII.

While both are available for purchase on Xbox One and Series X / S, neither is on Game Pass yet. This is easy to understand as they are still in high demand and they play great on the Switch too. After a year of waiting to play them on Game Pass, I decided to buy them almost a third time on Nintendo’s handheld during the holiday season. However, I gave in and went back to play Final Fantasy X on my Vita. Hopefully I will not be faced with the same riddle next Christmas.