FFXIV FOR THE NINTENDO SWITCH

[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

[Chiramu]

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

How else do you solve a problem except to talk it through?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

How else do you solve a problem except to talk it through?

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.

[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.

[Zeonsilt]

FF XIV already suffered enough because of PS3, i don't want it to suffer again because of Nintendo Switch.

[ErryK]

Switch is a relatively odd case... in that it uses SD cards as its main source of memory... a 512GB SD Card goes for approximately $400, a HDD goes for an eighth of that price... for $50. Now games would need to be of relative size in order to not tax the consumer only spending MORE than the console itself on accompanying storage. Let alone the fact that it only comes with 32GB storage, compared to things like the Xbox One and PS4 which come with a base of 500GB storage.

The issue here is, the game alone on PC is 26GB~... they would have to massively decrease/remove quality from the game itself to remain in-line with appropriate sizing for the storage. And saying that you don't necessarily need to install the game, while that is true XIV boasts approximately 8.5GB alone on the base ARR. Updates have boosted that to about 26GB meaning 17.5GB, that's relatively large for the storage system in question, and only up to 3.4 too.

[xbahax92]

FF XIV already suffered enough because of PS3...

Dont let Yoshi-P read that. He might eat you. :P

[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.