FFXIV FOR THE NINTENDO SWITCH

[TheVigilant]

I honestly doubt the Switch can manage 720p/30 fps in this game. Judging by what happened with other ports, it would probably be something like sub-720p docked at 15-20 fps most of the time. I just shudder at the idea of what might happen in 24-man raids. No...it probably won't happn. We finally got rid of "ps3 limitations" and I don't want to hear about "x-console limitations" ever again.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...for-the-better

[Enla]

We have no news on that front, but ffxiv on the switch is highly unlikely anyway. The thing is just not powerful enough to allow for a painless port. Also, ffxiv struggles even on ps4 in many instances.

If I recall the Switch is more powerful than the PS3 /but/ nowhere near as powerful as the PS4 or XBone. Yet in spite of that it's super powerful for what essentially amounts to a pseudo-handheld. So it could do it technically but it brings up the issue that we /just/ got rid of the PS3 for being dead-weight that apparently held parts of the game down. An issue that people have already been clamoring about in regards to the PS4. It seems a bit tone deaf to axe part of their customer base for owning under-powered hardware only to then turn around and blithely welcome a new group that owns machines in and around the same ballpark power wise.

[RitsukoSonoda]

This game on the Switch would likely need a platform bundle like they did for FFXI on the PS2. The main lacking area on a switch compared to a PS4 is internal storage. Switch does have a slot for micro SD cards though to expand it. So in the same way FFXI came with a HDD for PS2 I would expect the Switch version to come with a micro SD card.

[DRKoftheAzure]

I would gladly trade in my PS4 for a more powerful version of the Nintendo Switch that can outperform PS4 in not only framerate in both handheld and docked mode, but with internet connection speed as well, especially with the Soyny censorship and I have a gut feeling that Shadowbringers is going to get delayed on PS4 because of said censors...

[Lastelli]

I would gladly trade in my PS4 for a more powerful version of the Nintendo Switch that can outperform PS4 in not only framerate in both handheld and docked mode

Such a thing will not be available on the market for the next 3-4 years at the very minimum and even then it would be quite expensive. Technology just isn't there yet.

Also, censorship will not touch this game, don't worry. Sony is only censoring very specific games that have a strong "erotic" component, and ffxiv is not one of those games.

[DRKoftheAzure]

Such a thing will not be available on the market for the next 3-4 years at the very minimum and even then it would be quite expensive. Technology just isn't there yet.

Also, censorship will not touch this game, don't worry. Sony is only censoring very specific games that have a strong "erotic" component, and ffxiv is not one of those games.

Uh huh... Western technology maybe since people are still not done upgrading their computers to the latest best system because western gamers either don't have time or money(more often than not both)... not sure about eastern technology that actually is designed for gaming...

And as for Soyny only censoring "erotic" component, glamour function would be gutted to hell and back and also Lalafells would need to be removed from the game completely because of "pedophiles" and whatever else Soyny deems "too harmful for children" when most of them are either people who don't play video games and are not parents, or people who are shitty parents and don't play video games, hell MCH would probably need to removed along with Garleans and whatever fictional deities are in the games lore, and magic, and any other religious symbols in the game... I would not be surprised if that actually happened and that would most definitely make me not want to even touch Shadowbringers or FF14 ever again...

[Kurando]

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If you are worried about censorship for any of those things you mentioned, you probably should never play an MMO or even use the internet for that matter again. The game is not that erotic unless you stumble in to an in-game role play chat, to which it's easy to remove yourself from that situation anyway, and I think the rest of the stuff you just have a strange imagination.

[Lastelli]

Uh huh... Western technology maybe since people are still not done upgrading their computers to the latest best system because western gamers either don't have time or money(more often than not both)... not sure about eastern technology that actually is designed for gaming...

You do realize that amd, intel and nvidia are US companies, right? There's not such a thing as "eastern technology designed for gaming". There are not semiconductor producers in the east that somehow are 10 years ahead of their american competitors and can create small chips for mobile platforms that are more powerful than the ps4 for a competitive price (and manage to meet the power consumption and heat requirements of a mobile chip).

I'm seriously starting to wonder whether you're just trolling now...

[Vonleo]

Why would they make the effort of putting it out on such an under powered console like the switch when the PS5 and new Xbox will be coming out in a few years? and when that happens I bet the PS4 will get the axe just like the PS3 because it will be holding certain parts of the game back too...Spec wise the Nintendo switch just wont be able to keep up unless Nintendo does a huge hardware upgrade that is on par with the PS5.