You wait ages for Final Fantasy 16 news and then two bits come along at once. Such is the nature of the cycle. In a live stream today about an upcoming collaboration between the Nier Reincarnation mobile game and Final Fantasy 14, producer Naoki Yoshida stopped by and dropped some hints on how FF16 is doing.
Brought to us by well-known Twitter translator Audrey Lamsam, Yoshida implied the trailer had been done for a while (we’d heard similar from various sources) but that factors had delayed it being shown. To minorly translate that from game dev speak to likely real world: marketing, production, or executive management decided the game wasn’t going to come out for a little while longer and didn’t want to build the hype too early. That or they felt a particular period was already too packed with news and information.