Final Fantasy 14 Sets Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date for Early August

Square Enix has announced Final Fantasy 14 has a Nintendo Switch 2 merchandise day of August 4, 2026.

Game manager Naoki Yoshida (a.k.a. Yoshi-P) suited up successful Bastion armor and took the signifier astatine Final Fantasy 14 Fan Festival 2026 successful Berlin to corroborate the quality alongside a laundry database of caller updates coming successful the adjacent future. While Square Enix had antecedently confirmed plans to bring FFXIV to Switch 2 successful August, today's quality locks successful a motorboat that's lone a small much than 1 week away.

Preorders statesman aboriginal today, with fans told to support an oculus connected Square Enix societal media for updates. When FFXIV goes connected merchantability August 4, its archetypal period of merchantability volition beryllium escaped of subscription charges arsenic the developers guarantee server stability. After this play comes to an end, players volition beryllium required to acquisition a subscription arsenic normal.

Final Fantasy 14 Nintendo Switch 2 Graphic. Image courtesy of Square Enix.

"We knew that you've been waiting for this for a agelong time," Yoshi-P said via translator, "so we're precise blessed to bring this to you."

Final Fantasy 14 Fan Fest 2026 besides allowed Yoshi-P to spell backmost implicit immoderate of the catches that travel with the Switch 2 mentation of the game. As revealed astatine Anaheim Fan Fest successful April, FFXIV for Nintendo fans volition necessitate a abstracted subscription.

Yoshi-P said astatine the clip that the determination to necessitate an idiosyncratic subscription connected Switch 2 came aft "many months of discussions with Nintendo," but it's not each atrocious news. A Nintendo Switch Online subscription won't beryllium required to play, for example. Additionally, those who person progressive FFXIV subscriptions elsewhere tin instrumentality vantage of a 50% discount connected Switch 2.

FFXIV is lone days distant from its Switch 2 launch. Also revealed during the presumption was much accusation connected the upcoming Evercold expansion, the Bastion vessel role, a caller Final Fantasy 7 collaboration, and more.

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