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Soundwave on 11 December 2016
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bunchanumbers said:
Soundwave said:

If KH3 is using Unreal Engine it should be easier to port. 

To be honest just reduce some asset quality. Put some effort into it. Honestly maybe the XBox One versions should be canned, lets be honest, Square-Enix's Japanese games sell like shit on the XBox. Those resources would be better spent on the Switch which will be the market leader in Japan. 

Square-Enix wrongly bet the farm this generation that PS4 would bring back the Japanese game market, and thus making XBox One versions made sense because it's an easy port. But the way this generation is unfolding is now very different. 

Besides, I think it's possible to port games with a wider range of spec. 

Metal Gear Solid V runs on a 1.8 TFLOP PS4 with 8GB of RAM ... but it also runs on a 0.25 TFLOP XBox One with 512MB of RAM total. 

Super Street Fighter IV was able to be ported to a 3DS and still relatively play exactly the same. 

Back in the day, hell most of what we played in terms of arcade ports were huge stretches. Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter played fine on a SNES, despite the arcade hardware being probably about 5-10x more powerful. 

I was talking about FFXV. I just don't think that its gonna wind up on Switch. I could see KH3 happening on Switch though. I just doubt that FFXV will be happening. Maybe even FF7R.

Keep in mind ... developers while having some input on these decisions, don't actually have the final say. This is not like a clubhouse where everyone sits around a table and decides what they feel like doing. The business suits have the final say. 

I wouldn't really be surprised to FFXV on Switch, S-E spent a ton of money developing this game including sunken costs of a 10 year development cycle for various previous versions. This is not a charity, this is a business and that money has to be made up some where or some one's head has to roll. 

If they can release this thing on Switch and even manage 500k-600k out of it, I think they'd be happy with that, and if they invariably release a FFXV-2: We Need To Milk This Cow For More Money, they can also then release that on Switch having build at least some ground work for it. 

I personally this is going to be a big moment for Square-Enix though, and I think changes are coming. Switch will be made more important, PS4 will still get the same games but I think Square's trust in it from a Japanese POV has been damaged. I think XBox One development staff will also be parred back so Switch can get more support.