FFXIV FOR THE NINTENDO SWITCH

[Recaldy]

Thinking about this...will Stormblood work on the PS Vita? Hopefully that thing doesnt hold us back going forward. (I'm assuming it's weaker than the PS4.)

[Seig345]

Thinking about this...will Stormblood work on the PS Vita? Hopefully that thing doesnt hold us back going forward. (I'm assuming it's weaker than the PS4.)

Final Fantasy XIV doesn't work natively on the PS Vita at all. Remote play is simply streaming the game being run by the PS4 to the Vita's screen and relaying your analog/button inputs. SE has no reason to consider the PS Vita's remote play feature in the development of content for FFXIV. Even when they announced that it would technically work when they released FFXIV for PS4, they heavily recommended that you only use Remote Play for single player related gameplay such as crafting and gathering. Given the way the UI is, to put it one way, not optimized for such a small display (a higher resolution might let you fit more things on screen, but all the resolution in the world won't help with a lack of display real estate), that recommendation isn't unwarranted, and in fact has some relevance in the subject of porting it to the Nintendo Switch as well, on top of the fact that you wouldn't be streaming the game on the Switch.

[Derio]

I dont think so. Recent reports said that Zelda breath of the wild will take up 40% of the system's memory. Even though FFXIV doesnt take up that much space, you have to wonder.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I dont think so. Recent reports said that Zelda breath of the wild will take up 40% of the system's memory. Even though FFXIV doesnt take up that much space, you have to wonder.

Zelda is about 13.4gigs apparently. FFXIV is 23 gigs installed on my PC.

[Chiramu]

I dont think so. Recent reports said that Zelda breath of the wild will take up 40% of the system's memory. Even though FFXIV doesnt take up that much space, you have to wonder.

Just because Zelda is that big doesn't mean you need to install the game. If you have a 3DS your game just saves your game on the system, all the game is on the SD card. There is no need to use the Switch HDD to install games.

EDIT: The expansions and patches might prove to be a problem though. SE and Nintendo however are having a good relationship so hopefully they can sort it out.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Just because Zelda is that big doesn't mean you need to install the game. If you have a 3DS your game just saves your game on the system, all the game is on the SD card. There is no need to use the Switch HDD to install games.

You'd have to have somewhere to install updates. Do you get a separate cartridge for each expansion? How do you play the game with 3 cartridges? lol

[Chiramu]

You'd have to have somewhere to install updates.

Quoted me before my edit .

Again; Nintendo and SE have a good relationship they can sort something out.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Quoted me before my edit .

Again; Nintendo and SE have a good relationship they can sort something out.

How do they work out that tho? It either installs to the cartridge or to the system, there is no magic other way lol

[StarRosie]

You'd have to have somewhere to install updates. Do you get a separate cartridge for each expansion? How do you play the game with 3 cartridges? lol

Same way we played games that were split into multiple discs back in the day. Heck we sorta had that recently, FF13 was split into 3 discs on X360. It's quite simple, once you reach a certain point, you are given a prompt to swap carts to continue and the console would hold your place via memory as you swapped the carts. Though with how your character is held on SE's servers rather then the machine itself, that could make the idea of swapping carts simpler. Now I'm not saying this is what should be done, just answering your question there on "how would you play a game on three carts?".

Also!

You can't talk through magic lol. Its not going to exist in "the magical cloud" The game simply isn't feasible on the switch.

Speaking in some absolutes here, that's never a good idea. It's not that FFXIV is unfeasible on the switch, anything is really feasible if you put your mind to it, just is it worth it? that's the grand question there. Would the investment be worth the time? In my opinion...no. The idea again has merit but overall would not be worth the time to invest in that idea when we could just as easily move on without the Switch and put that time towards other more important things. It's not really a question of power (Least in my opinion. Power isn't that important in the grand scheme of things.) it's a question of would porting FFXIV to the switch be worth it? Would it grant us an increase in users and subs? Would the time investment yield equal or greater results? That's the question and I answered it earlier in this paragraph. So I'm gonna stop before I repeat myself into oblivion, cause I think you get the point.

[Yellow]

Pls don't. The Switch isn't very powerful and it will restrict the extent this game can be developed. No thanks! Put other FFs on the Switch instead, like FF10/10-2 HD.