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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

According to Yoshi-P, he says FF16 was initially a PS4 & PS5 game.

"He wanted no loading with the high quality graphics the FF series is known for. Trying to make no loading on PS4 they found the graphics dropped to below FF15 levels, so he decided to make it PS5 only in the middle of development"



Info surfaced from this recent Shuhei interview with Yoshi-P on the Game Maker's Notebook Podcast:

 

[MDSLKTR]

Explains why it's so uneven and the ps4 character models.

 

[Calverz]

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Explains the game's structure. That's probably the reason I just can't get into the game.

 

[March Climber]

Explains why it's so uneven and the ps4 character models.

I've always considered that to just be Japanese game development cost cutting, much like what Kingdom Hearts does with mouth flaps during non-cutscenes, or Yakuza games not being fully voice acted sometimes.