Alongside this week's announcement of a Switch 2 version of Final Fantasy 14, Square Enix has also announced the game's next major expansion. The MMO's sixth expansion will launch in January 2027, kicking off a new story saga for players to explore.

During the Fan Festival this week, Final Fantasy 14 director and producer, Naoki Yoshida, confirmed Evercold as the next major expansion for the game. This expansion will bring a battle system overhaul, as well as new playmodes. Moving forward, certain jobs will only be playable in the new expansion's ‘evolved' battle mode, while all previous classes will remain playable as-is in Reborn mode.

There will be two new job classes added to the game with Evercold, a new Tank job and a new ranged DPS job. Alongside this, Square Enix is bumping the level cap from 100 to 110, introducing new cities and other map areas, new dungeons, a new series of raids, PvP updates and more.

There isn't an exact final release date for Final Fantasy 14 Evercold but it will be launching sometime in January. This summer, six months prior to the expansion, Final Fantasy 14 will also expand to another console platform – the Nintendo Switch 2.

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So far, Square Enix have supported the Nintendo Switch 2 with quite a few titles, perhaps the most notable being the release of Final Fantasy VII Remake earlier this year. With its sequel Rebirth confirmed to also be heading to the handheld hybrid, Square Enix have now officially announced that the long-running and highly successful MMO Final Fantasy XIV is currently in development for Nintendo’s platform.

Last year, in the months following the Switch 2’s launch, Final Fantasy producer Naoki Yoshida expressed interest in trying to bring the ever-popular Final Fantasy XIV to the Switch 2, hoping to have “good news” for owners of the system in the future.

Sure enough, as part of their recent Final Fantasy XIV showcase (in which they announced the game’s latest expansion ‘Evercold’) Square Enix officially confirmed that the MMO is set to receive a Switch 2 port; arriving this August.

Those wanting to get in sooner may have the opportunity to do so, with Square claiming that they will have some form of Early Access ahead of time. Additionally, the team confirmed that players will not need to be subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online in order to play.

Given the nature of MMOs, and the fact that FFXIV is well over a decade old at this point (even with various visual refreshes), it would make sense for Square Enix to port the game over to the Switch 2.

KitGuru says: Are you looking forward to playing FFXIV on Switch 2? Do you reckon the game will support touch controls / mouse mode? Let us know down below.