In fact, prominent leaker NateTheHate recently threw his weight behind those claims again. Spotted by VGC, in the lead-up to last week’s State of Play presentation, the leaker claimed that both titles were still very much in “active development”. As per the leaker, neither will is expected to release in 2025, but he claims Final Fantasy 9 Remake in particular could release sometime in 2026.

What that means for when Square Enix will choose to announce these titles is anyone’s guess. A Nintendo Direct presentation focused on the Switch 2 is scheduled for April 2, which might presumably serve as a suitable stage for such reveals- though that’s purely speculation at this point.

Both remain in active development. FFIXR isn’t expected to see release in 2025. Maybe we’ll see it launch in 2026.

— NateTheHate2 (@NateTheHate2) February 9, 2025

Not that I’ve heard.

— NateTheHate2 (@NateTheHate2) February 10, 2025

In a recent interview with TheGamer, when asked about whether there was any likelihood of seeing a Tactics spinoff for Final Fantasy 16, Yoshida said that though FF16’s setting and core mechanics wouldn’t lend themselves to a tactics game very well, the series as a whole does fit that genre, adding that it’s “probably about time” a new Tactics game was developed.

“How would we even do the Eikon versus Eikon battles in that style?” Yoshida said. “If you have the Eikons, how many squares is an Eikon going to be? You have more people out there as well, so what about the wait time in between? … But the series does lend itself well to that kind of storytelling, and we love Tactics as well. It’s probably about time that we do a new one.”

Final Fantasy Tactics remaster was first spotted in a massive list of unannounced titles in 2021’s GeForce Now leak. In February last year, journalist Jason Schreier seemed to reaffirm the game’s existence, but later in the year, Final Fantasy Tactics creator Yasumi Matsuno said there were no “current” plans to bring the series back.

Responding to a question on X, Matsuno states that fans would have to ask Square Enix about the potential remaster, and that it’s all he can say in his position. For the sake of reference, Matsuno is one of the people credit with the Ivalice sub-series in Final Fantasy, with titles like Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy 12 being parts of the Ivalice setting.

Back in February, Bloomberg’s Jason Schrier stated that a remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics was in the works. Square Enix itself hasn’t made any real announcement about the game, and the last we heard of any game set in Ivalice was Final Fantasy 14: Stormblood‘s Alliance Raid setting, which featured characters from Final Fantasy Tactics.

Final Fantasy Tactics was originally released on the PlayStation One back in 1997 in Japan. The game has since been ported to PlayStation Portable as Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions in 2007, and eventually made its way on to iOS devices.

https://twitter.com/YasumiMatsuno/status/1729771931522470343

If that weren’t enough, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier says it’s “coming,” in a recent tweet. He didn’t specify anything further, so he’s either repeating established rumors or not at liberty to say more. Your guess is as good as ours.

First released in 1997 for Japan on the PlayStation One, Final Fantasy Tactics is a turn-based tactical RPG. It’s the first game in the series to introduce the setting of Ivalice and featured several developers who worked on the Ogre Battle series (to which Tactics Ogre is related). Renowned as one of the best games ever made, it was ported to the PlayStation Portable as Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions in 2007.

Coming

— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) February 17, 2023