Switch 2 and the potential of a port

[Themarvin]

It would be a downgrade to the game over time if so, in a figure of speech this is why PS3 is out of the game and PS4 soon to be as well.

[miraidensetsu]

You can already do this on a Steam Deck or ASUS RoG Ally, the Ally Z1E is even more powerful then the Switch 2 and the Ally X more so with double the battery life over the Z1E. You can find used Ally Z1E's for $350 or less on Facebook Marketplace and such, they are really affordable and are maybe at worse 10 percent slower than the Ally X. If you have the PC version of FFXIV, you don't have to buy a new license since the Ally runs Windows 11 so both the Windows and Steam version would work natively like on any other Windows PC since the Ally uses the desktop version of Windows 11. Matter in fact, due to the cost of electricity where I live, my Ally Z1E docked to my 55 inch 4K tv is now my main gaming rig and uses no more than 35 watts total when gaming on a custom 22 watt profile. I have been using my Ally Z1E for over a year and a half now as my main gaming PC rig. The game will last up to 2 hours on battery power running at 15 watts. You can buy a larger aftermarket battery to double the battery like like the Ally X has.

Maybe the point is that he don't have to buy a Steam Deck or a Rog Ally just to do that.

Also, S-E doesn't support FFXIV running on Steam Deck. That's because Steam Deck is a Linux, an OS that is not officially supported. You even need to use emulator and some anti-TOS tools to be able to run it on Linux.

[Rinoa_353]

Maybe the point is that he don't have to buy a Steam Deck or a Rog Ally just to do that.

But that's the only way to play this game on a handheld at present and don't you have to buy a Switch 2 anyways? You don't even need to buy the license again if you already own one for Windows or Steam while you would have to pay for the license and expansions if they ever come out for the Switch 2. The Ally trounces the Switch 2, so why play on an inferior device when you can already play on the Ally that has native support for the game without SE needing to touch anything? They would have to commit a lot of resources for the Switch 2 port since the CPU isn't even x86 (ARM) based like PC's and the XBOX/PS4/5 and would need to be emulated and that hurts performance over the already weak hardware vs the Ally.

Also, S-E doesn't support FFXIV running on Steam Deck. That's because Steam Deck is a Linux, an OS that is not officially supported. You even need to use emulator and some anti-TOS tools to be able to run it on Linux.

You can install Windows 11 on the Steam Deck and Steam even provides official drivers too, therefore making it legitimate.

[Shiroe]

seems the CPU is the biggest bottleneck for FF14.., and Switch 2's CPU is its weakness component..
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still, if Cyberpunk could run it close enough to the Series S.., think FF14 should beable to run FF14 well after the PS4 gen gets dropped with 8.0.., maybe with some limitations or dips in Limsa (or Boja / Eureka -like content with over 24 players...)
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would love to see FF14 on the Switch 2.., think it would attract more players than the Xbox release did..

[Nero-Voidstails]

No it wouldn't, the PS4 version is why game is just fine on the Series S and would be just fine on the Switch 2.

That's not creating new limitations, that's using the existing ones.

dam.tell.me you hate Xbox player without telling me

[Moonlite]

Can someone explain to me how this wouldn't increase the work load? Not for or against, just what does one more system in the mix mean for patch cycles?

[GiR_Zippo]

Also, S-E doesn't support FFXIV running on Steam Deck. That's because Steam Deck is a Linux, an OS that is not officially supported. You even need to use emulator and some anti-TOS tools to be able to run it on Linux.

The acronym WINE originally stood for "Wine Is Not an Emulator". It's a compatibility layer that allows users to run Windows applications on Unix-like operating systems like Linux and macOS. Instead of emulating the Windows environment, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls, enabling the applications to run directly on the host operating system

And Proton is just a fork of WINE which does the same, but with extended support for much more calls.
You can even install XIV with the official launcher via Proton and play the game on Linux, like what ppl are doing with almost every other game that doesn't support Linux natively.

No anti-TOS stuff involved.

The only drawback here: If SE breaks their stuff, you have to wait until there is a fix for it (a new Proton version, an updated library, s.o.)

[Nero-Voidstails]

Can someone explain to me how this wouldn't increase the work load? Not for or against, just what does one more system in the mix mean for patch cycles?

it's mostly the hardware in itself like the switch 2 isn't weak but it isn't that powerful either we probably will suffer on graphic update and well content in itself just look at how poorly OC framerate goes with today console. now imagine that but with a weaker console that is as strong as a PS4 that is being cut off really soon I think they mentioned that dawntrail was the last expension for ps4