All the FF/DQ ones have been PS exclusive, except I think for one mobile title.
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Tabata comments on Final Fantasy XV for Nintendo Switch, currently no plan
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All the FF/DQ ones have been PS exclusive, except I think for one mobile title.
540P docked and 360p portable seem the most likely answer assuming that the CPU is on par with the Xbox One/PS4
Yeah, still weird though. Seems arbitrary considering both FF and DQ spinoffs have a long history on Nintendo systems.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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Huh, I really thought it would be able to run it.
Why can't these threads be a signal for Nintendo to get their shit together?
There are more people in the world than Nintendo only and Nintendo never fans. Some of us would love to have a console that has nintendo and third party titles. Some of us don't like the trade off between a library that has almost all of the biggest games and gimmicks that only truly serve a few titles before being abandoned altogether.
Why is everyone who wants more big games than just a Zelda title available on other platforms automatically labelled a hater?
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Deleted member 465307
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Absolutely zero surprise.
*high five*
I think they killed it because their development teams kind of killed it when moving the series to DS. That said, I think Echoes of Time was a step in the right direction after Ring of Fates, and a move to more powerful hardware (with better 3D controls) would have helped a lot.
It should have been on Wii U (or 3DS, I guess). At this point, I'll take a remake of the original on Switch. The best games on Switch are going to be the ones built with it as the lead platform, so I'd welcome more exclusive games from Square-Enix.
*high five*
I think they killed it because their development teams kind of killed it when moving the series to DS. That said, I think Echoes of Time was a step in the right direction after Ring of Fates, and a move to more powerful hardware (with better 3D controls) would have helped a lot.
It should have been on Wii U (or 3DS, I guess). At this point, I'll take a remake of the original on Switch. The best games on Switch are going to be the ones built with it as the lead platform, so I'd welcome more exclusive games from Square-Enix.
LordRaptor
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The Wii and DS versions both had DQ cameos, and the series had never left Japan prior to the Wii
Teletraan1
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I don't remember a bunch of no plans, great efforts and unprecedented partnerships prior to the PS4 and XB1 coming out. They just got the games. Same song and dance with Nintendo and third party. "[Politely]It is nice hardware, but no." Oh well, outliers be outlying.
Zombegoast
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They just need to tone down the lighting. I have used Engines like Unity and turning on/off GI and shadows is as simple as using a slider and checking a box. Unless there is something else that's taxing the system, there is no real justification why the Switch can't run a game like FFXV.
The Switch alone has at least 8 times more Ram than the Ps3. Now you are just making up excuses.
Coffee Dog
Banned
We will until people realize how big the power gap is. This thing is designed to run on a battery, of course it won't be playing demanding games.
psynergylover
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Yo Knightmare
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G: It wouldnt run at all?
HT: It might run But we havent conducted the proper tests on whether it would run properly on Switch or not, so I cannot say for sure.
They don't even know if it'll run...
MatrixMan.EXE
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Reading this thread, there's apparently still people in denial that aside from demographics, Switch isn't powerful enough to justify the sheer effort it'd take to port a game like FFXV to the system.
SmokedMeat
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If it's taxing for a PS4, then there's no way the Switch can handle it.
Night Angel
Member
If it's that easy you should call them and do it for them in a weekend or something.
Yep
Rodney McKay
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So it would end up looking like Xenoblade Chronicles on the 3DS?
...I could deal with that actually. I have a strange fascination with mobile ports of games that probably should never have gotten mobile ports, like the DS version of Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (which played surprisingly faithfully, but ran like garbage).
good luck dodging them landslides on the switch.
For Square Enix annual reports, digital software is any entertainment software that isn't an arcade machine (or I suppose pachislot machine if they dabble in that). Packaged software is lumped under digital software. It also includes all of their Eidos stuff, so it isn't just Japanese software.
They were surprisingly aloof with the 3DS when it comes to Final Fantasy games. Did it receive anything from the franchise outside of Theatrhythm and Final Fantasy Explorers?
They give Nintendo a lot of Dragon Quest though, and I suppose Bravely Default is sort of Final Fantasy.
Iva Demilcol
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At least they didn't laugh about it.
psynergylover
Member
That's just them saying "no" politely
It not going to run unless they make some compromises, it has promblems running on PS4/XB1, no way it's coming to Switch.
Astral Dog
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FFXV Would melt the Switch,Altissia so pretty 😍
Astral Dog
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True,its not hate or bad business sense its the reality guys
The sooner we accept this the faster we move on.
There is going to be beautiful portable games on Switch
^yea it's cool and funny at the same time. I also agree. Would be nice not for apps so much but for games.
I think we need more comparisons like this to help keep ppl expectations in check.
I think we need more comparisons like this to help keep ppl expectations in check.
Schopenhauerian
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The statements above from Tabata can certainly be interpreted as an attempt to be polite to Nintendo.
Note, however, that the above statements came in response to a follow-up question by the journalist, Giuseppe Nelva. The initial question/response was the following:
It's to the journalist's credit that he himself saw the problem with this initial response from Tabata, and decided to pose the follow-up question, giving Tabata the nudge/opportunity to re-calibrate his answer a bit. However, I'm not sure anyone here would argue that the initial response from Tabata ("There are no Plans, it wouldn't run...") was in itself in any way an attempt to be polite to Nintendo.
Indeed, given Tabata's subsequent admission that proper tests have not actually been done, one could reasonably argue that there was some amount of presumptuousness in the initial response from Tabata, especially since the simple truth ("It might run... But we haven't conducted the proper tests on whether it would run properly on Switch or not, so I cannot say for sure... There are no plans for Switch at the moment...") was available to him from the start.
Ordinarily, I wouldn't bother commenting on this, but given the frequency with which I see tenuous claims about Nintendo & Miyamoto's supposed arrogance, I thought it might be instructive to highlight what presumptuousness actually looks like.
Dq heroes should not be used as the baseline for any port imo.
Moon Presence
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Still in denial? You have Skyrim(Special Edition?) and that's a huge feat in Nintendo's eyes. And some people expected games like FFXV or something.
Not surprised. They'd have to port that engine over and the real question is whether or not they wanted to do that. I was hoping they would since I was holding out purchasing FFXV in case an NS version was coming at some point. Now I guess I can put that to rest and just get the PS4 version at some point. Not gonna lie, I really wanted a NS version.
royox
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So what? It's still inferior to PS4. You have to understand the PC players point of view, the most powerfull the limitator console is the better will be the PC version. PS4 as a new hardware limitation for FFXIV is much better than the switch.
miller.skippins
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can't we have a consolidated thread to list all the 3rd party games NOT coming to the switch instead of creating a new one? It's just a waste of thread space seeing that we are going to pretty much see another 100 of such 'announcements' in the coming months.
Bravely Default is the best final fantasy game in years, for what it's worth.
That's why there isn't a PC port too... wait...
Reading this thread I predict a lot of people to be surprised in the near future.
At the same time, PS3 has like 256Mb of RAM vs Switch's 4GB? How much would a limitation be in this regard? (This is coming from someone who is overjoyed about PS3's demise and also played FFXI).
What if XV Switch had like, no bros.
But XV sold pretty well I thought?
ShockingAlberto
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Remember when every rumormonger kept saying FFXV is getting ported to NX and I kept laughing at it and some of you got very, very mad about that?
Everyone laughed at those rumourmongers.
StrongBlackVine
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I'm not sure why so many think they companies are going to make last gen versions of games especially for Nintendo. When they designed the Switch they knew 3rd party AAA support was mostly a non-starter. They aren't stupid.
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Indeed. DQ Heroes looks absolutely terrible from a visual perspective, and we have many other games on the system that look much better. Anyone using it as an indication of what Switch can do with multiplatform releases is misleading themself.
That said, expecting FFXV on the system without major compromises (720p and reduced graphical settings) would be equally misguided.
Maybe, but certainly not in Japan. It has managed to out sell FF2, but has only a little over 2/3rds what FF3 did.