eh, I watched videos of the gameplay and cutscenes and disliked it a lot. Especially the boy character.
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Can we talk about Square Enix's Switch support?
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Ahh...the Luminous Engine. Yeah, it makes sense it wouldn't work too hot on the Switch. Final Fantasy XV struggles a bit on the PS4 as well. Even if it was with Unreal Engine 4, perhaps it could've been a little more viable but that'd still be a long shot
Thanks. I didn't see that in my searches. I mean, I guess they could try to port it using UE4, but not sure it would be worth the effort of porting to a new engine. Not with the sales they would expect from a port.
Well, barely anyone make an outright exclusives anymore, those third party games have at least a PC version. Unlike when they are on Nintendo, they are usually exclusives to the platform.
And the games that are exclusives to Sony are usually port begged. Example, every games that are announced for PS4, at least initially.
...ok?
so PS4 didn't have square support until a year ago
And I guess 3DS didn't have any square support
I would say Square Enix and Bandai Namco are easily the biggest supporters of Switch.
Sega (who owns Atlus) is a pretty big supporter as well.
Sega (who owns Atlus) is a pretty big supporter as well.
Now we're getting Bayonetta 1 and 2 next month, just give me a Tokyo Mirage Sessions port Nintendo and your commitment has been fulfilled in regards to ports at least to me.
EDIT: Woops, thought I was in the port thread! On topic, yeah, Square's been killing it. Think the other publisher doing the bidness would be Bethesda.
EDIT: Woops, thought I was in the port thread! On topic, yeah, Square's been killing it. Think the other publisher doing the bidness would be Bethesda.
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But those Nintendo exclusives are fewer and farther in between than Sony's console exclusives or even outright Sony exclusives
Same happened and happens with Nintendo's and Microsoft's games. Just look at Cuphead, Ori, Bayonetta, or previous Monster Hunter games. It's an equal opportunity port begging, really :P
I'm hoping they port FF12 The Zodiac Age to the Switch. I'd rather play that than FF15 Pocket Edition.
Best third party support ditto
Bethesda is in line or slightly behind to Koei imho
Of course depending of subjective tastes
Oh God, Final Fantasy Tactics would be fucking awesome! I'd be so down for some remasters and a sequel
Yeah, I was hoping that between Matsuno's Return to Ivalice raid in FFXIV and The Zodiac Age there could be a FF Tactics collection on the horizon.
Well Square Enix did bring up that the Switch does make it more viable for more mid tier games so hopefully that leads to some Final Fantasy Tactics. The last time was on the GameBoy Advance, no?
No, we had Tactics A2 on DS but I think the lukewarm reception was the final nail in the coffin for the Ivalice Alliance.
I will never forgive them for still not localizing this for like a fifth release now. It's been on Wii, WiiU, PC, 3DS and PS4 for a while now and now switch too. Its seriously fucked and they are losing huge revenue streams.
Oh wait, really? Ahh...that sucks. Honestly didn't even know there was on the DS. Was it any good or do you agree with the reception?
Yeah SE's support has been pretty good, great even, sadly however... none have appealed to me so far... apart from the newly announced TWEWY, and Dragon Quest X/XI being a maybe...
I don't think I can see KH3 running on Switch well... at least not without quite the downgrade, but if they drop the KH collection on it... just 1.5+2.5 even, (Not sure if 0.2 would work well either), I may freak out at the potential of playing most of the KHs portably at any time!
I don't think I can see KH3 running on Switch well... at least not without quite the downgrade, but if they drop the KH collection on it... just 1.5+2.5 even, (Not sure if 0.2 would work well either), I may freak out at the potential of playing most of the KHs portably at any time!
It's not though. It's released on several very successful platforms like the Wii and PS4 that if they had done just one versions localization they could release it on all these platforms. It's been out for like 6 years in Japan now and basically a platform a year. There is no excuse why it's exclusive to Japan. This could have been making lots of money in every region.
Why Bandai Namco? Sega and KT seems like better supporters if we're talking about number of titles/importance of the titles ported.
I thought that the gameplay was better than in the first one since it didn't force some of the laws as much but the story was much more forgettable.
Oh okay. Would you say the game is still worth playing for the improved gameplay, even if the story is more ho-hum?
Kingdom Hearts III should absolutely release on Switch. Especially since they switched it to Unreal Engine 4, which is fully supported on Switch. It has no business being on Xbox One at all and it'll suffer a much worse fate than Rise of the Tomb Raider did when it was a timed exclusive.
From what I read about unreal 4, it's only a few weeks of work, a press of a button, and you have a down scaled, albeit not optimized workable Switch version. That investment is far better than the Xbox investment. ROI makes much more sense given the history of the series on Nintendo platforms.
From what I read about unreal 4, it's only a few weeks of work, a press of a button, and you have a down scaled, albeit not optimized workable Switch version. That investment is far better than the Xbox investment. ROI makes much more sense given the history of the series on Nintendo platforms.
Oh yeah, definitely. The gameplay is extremely addicting and deep.
No it won't Dragon Quest isn't a huge seller world wide and translating a HUGE MMO with all it's updates and expansions is a huge undertaking to then market.
It's not a platform issue, it's a brand power issue and a huge undertaking of translating a MMO.
In regards to Square Enix and Bandai Namco, I'm talking about both announced and unannounced stuff.
But you're still right. After thinking about it a bit more, Sega is probably the second biggest supporter of Switch behind Square Enix.
It's a huge undertaking now, people have wanted this game since it originally released on the Wii. There was no reason not to localize it then since the DQ games did well on DS. Thats what I'm mad about, if they had shown any forethought they would have done the localization early and now we could have it on all these different platforms because at least the base game would be translated already. It's easy to loose 'Brand power' when you stop releasing games from the series in different regions.
Hmm...than I'll have to give it a shot at some point. I was on a DS mood a few years back. Kind of wish I knew about this :P
so they'd forego a relatively easy port, that would make easy money because....?
I personally like A2 and A more than tactics cause the missions, different races, map style, etc
:eyes: Interesting. Excited to see what Bamco has for Switch this year then.
I mean, the last original Kingdom Hearts game was a Nintendo exclusive, and 3DS had multiple FF spin offs. It took them forever to even release the last mainline final fantasy.
There was a time when I wanted a mainline FF on the Nintendo platforms so much. These days are long gone though, Lightning killed my interest and Sony can stuck with it.
About support, a lot of people can look at all of it and say "There's nothing really remarkable on it, apart from the Dragon Quest ones, which are multi-platform". But at least I can look and think that's there's the promise.
After all...
We can only hope.
About support, a lot of people can look at all of it and say "There's nothing really remarkable on it, apart from the Dragon Quest ones, which are multi-platform". But at least I can look and think that's there's the promise.
After all...
We can only hope.
Sega is not doing that much, even if we count Atlus and SMT V really. Unless you're talking about unannounced stuff too for them? Because they have a lot of IPs to put there (Yakuza please, all their old IPs from the arcade era, Miku, etc), even if you don't count Atlus, which add even more with stuff that was on 3DS (EO, SMT spinoffs, Catherine getting ported on Vita but not Swich, etc). Sonic is really not a surprise, and while Puyo Puyo was great, it's a port of a game that sold well on 3DS, and Valkyria was a good choice.
Bamco were a bit slow, but they're always good supporters once they want to support a platform. Not worried about them at all.
That destructoid article has a heavy layer of BS smeared on top of the real story. They basically take a quote, speculated off of it and created their own news. What happened was that after heavily hinting at a FFXV Switch project, the game's director walked it back in a couple of interviews. The first walk back was in a dualshockers interview, from which that destructoid article is based. Tabata does make it clear that they didn't like the results they saw for their engine, but also that they did no optimization either. In a Famitsu interview a few weeks later (posted above by Meelow), Tabata then implies that they had begun optimizing the engine for Switch, but were still debating using Unreal instead. Only 3 things can gleaned for certain from all of this... there was no plan (as of 4 months ago) to bring FFXV to Switch, there is definitely a desire to do something with the game's sub-series and Switch, and that a Switch port of FFXV is not impossible.