Yoshi-P says discussions about FFXIV on Switch and Xbox One are "Positive"

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Questions, ain't switch more limited the PS3?

The switch wouldnt be as limiting as I suspect people think. Remember that the PS3 was hamstrung by it’s 256mb of admitedly very high bandwidth Rambus ram coupled with a seperate 256mb block for the GPU, I can’t even begin to think about how much of a nightmare it must have been to optimise and maintain the FFXIV PS3 client over the years. Whilst the switch undoubtedly can’t match the powerpc cpu of the PS3, its GPU is significantly more modern whilst having 4gb of unified memory puts it at a huge advantage for asset heavy titles like this.

TLDR = Significantly more ram, somewhat more capable GPU, weaker CPU.

All in all I suspect it'd deliver similar overall performance to a PS3 but be massively easier to shoehorn the game into vs the PS3's 256mb+256mb XDR ram arrangement. In a dreamworld, SE would be allowed to leverage Tegra's hardware encode/decode for a gamestream style setup essentially offloading the work to a companion PC. I'd be utterly shocked if Nintendo allowed that tho =(