Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Announced for PlayStation 4
Square Enix has just announced in the Dissidia Final Fantasy official livestream #9.5+? that the newest Dissidia Final Fantasy game, Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, will be coming to the PlayStation 4. It is based on the currently ongoing Dissidia Final Fantasy Arcade, and both of them are developed with cooperation from Koei Tecmo's Team Ninja. Yosuke Hayashi, the brand leader of Team Ninja, also makes an appearance in the livestream.
The livestream elaborates several points about Dissidia Final Fantasy NT:
- There will be new storyline not in the Arcade version
- NT will not have RPG features or Story Mode like in the PSP version, but they still prepared a number of event scenes
- Basic gameplay system is same as Arcade version in 3-vs-3 party battles
- NT will have exclusive features for PS4, such as Offline Mode, Multiplayer with friends and Voice Chat
- Multiplayer between Arcade and PS4 (NT) versions is not possible
- Key configuration will be available
- The Arcade version will continue getting updated monthly with new characters, and will receive the updates first before the PS4 version
- NT will have PS4 Pro support
Early information about NT is also available from Amazon, which is as follows:
- Final Fantasy, everything you could ever want - Over 20 playable Final Fantasy heroes and villains to play, over ten iconic battle arenas, legendary summons, tons of equippable weapons and moogles
- The return from Eos - Noctis makes his triumphant return to the PS4 as a combatant, fighting to save the world of Dissidia
- Legendary narrative - Dive into an all-new Final Fantasy story, written by writer Kazushige Nojima (Fantasy VII Remake, Final Fantasy XV, Final Fantasy X, Kingdom Hearts, and Kingdom Hearts II)
- Your fantasy. Your fight - Each battle you wage, you will gain XP and gil to deepen the customization of your Final Fantasy champion - from EX skills to weapons to skins, level up
- Only the brave survive - The bravery combat system allows a much deeper and more methodical approach to the fighting game genre, separating luck from skill
Dissidia Final Fantasy NT for PlayStation 4 is slated for worldwide simultaneous release in early 2018. A playable demo will be also available at E3 2017. Another note worth mentioning is that Tetsuya Nomura will not be present at E3, but he will be attending another event in the US instead.
