FFXIV FOR THE NINTENDO SWITCH

[ZhaneX]

I'm extremely skeptical of a system which purports to benefit mainly from a functionality that others have advertised before, but that I'm not really sure I've ever seen work all that flawlessly.

[lulunami]

The graphics will be like tablet/mobile phone level graphics considering it has an Nvidia Tegra. It will look decent (1080p), but it definitely will not be as powerful as top-of-the-line desktop PC or gaming laptop.

[Gumbercules]

I like what the Switch is showcasing so far to be honest, but i do not see it being a MMO friendly platform. Reason it gets my attention to begin with is cuz it doesn't seem to be playing at being a PC. At most the "portable" hardware is going to be aimed at adequate lvls of 720p gaming/hour/frame and the docking station will have the "minimum" needed to beef that up to 1080 p gaming and maybe if lucky 4k streaming (not game related) So I feel it would be counter intuitive to develop ff 14 for it if we consider its portable version as the actual performance cap since as i said i don't see it being remote play, its downscaling. And i say this keeping in mind that imho "CPU" wise ff 14 is very well optimized vs other pc MMOs. (for example ff 14 for me plays tremendously well namely off what it gets from GPU alone vs wow were my cpu can still be an issue)

[Fevelle]

Also remember this:

"With the announcement that Square Enix is considering a Nintendo NX port of Dragon Quest XI and Dragon Quest X, Yoshida-san also gave some details on the possibility of that consideration to be extended to Final Fantasy XIV."

Having FFXIV be a portable game would be awesome. To be honest, even the D-PAD on the Switch Controller looks awesome to use with FFXIV crossbar system.

The trouble is that the Wii Switch is weaker than the thing you describe as a weaker PC in a box. So where does that leave a game that wants to raise the min spec and embrace the DX12 feature set?

Source on the DirectX12 please? Also, the specs posted here are fake, no real specs were released yet. N-Switch will probably be on par with a normal PS4 - slightly better than a XBOX One.

The graphics will be like tablet/mobile phone level graphics considering it has an Nvidia Tegra. It will look decent (1080p), but it definitely will not be as powerful as top-of-the-line desktop PC or gaming laptop.

Judging by the NVIDIA article saying the GPU uses the same technology of their latest GPUs, it's a Pascal Tegra, so no one knows what it's capable of yet.

[Ametrine]

My concern is if this thing has a decently sized hard drive.

My WiiU and NEW3DS both had to be outfitted with really large, and separately purchased from Nintendo, storage for my downloaded games. So even if the cartridges of this thing are basically mini solid state drives, a game the size of FFXIV may well be the only game you can download by 4.0's patch cycle.

That said, it really doesn't look like the Switch will be too weak to run the game, especially with the backend upgrades SE is putting into the servers, if it's truely on par with the XBONE. It won't be much different that laptop/or middle to lower level PC users.

I think the chances are good if Dragon Quest X can get an audience.

[Chewy2nd]

My concern is if this thing has a decently sized hard drive.

My WiiU and NEW3DS both had to be outfitted with really large, and separately purchased from Nintendo, storage for my downloaded games. So even if the cartridges of this thing are basically mini solid state drives, a game the size of FFXIV may well be the only game you can download by 4.0's patch cycle.

That said, it really doesn't look like the Switch will be too weak to run the game, especially with the backend upgrades SE is putting into the servers, if it's truely on par with the XBONE. It won't be much different that laptop/or middle to lower level PC users.

I think the chances are good if Dragon Quest X can get an audience.

Given the size of the device, I can't see it being on par with the Xbox One.

[dragorian]

They better port to xbox one first it's been a long time coming.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

They better port to xbox one first it's been a long time coming.

Not sure if you are serious or what, but as far as I know, SE would LOVE to port FF14 to XO, they just do not agree with some of the requirements that Microsoft has established for the game to go there. I'd list some, if I remembered em.

[Norleas]

I can hardly see past the UI on my giant monitor, you expect people to play on something that tiny?

[Ametrine]

I can hardly see past the UI on my giant monitor, you expect people to play on something that tiny?

I'm really curious to see your UI, now. Like, how bloated and busy do people make theirs that the UI is what prevents them from being ok with this possible port?