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Nuvendil on 22 August 2017
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Soundwave said:
Nuvendil said:

My point is that's not really a solution to porting issues that makes any financial sense.  Yes, FFXV has a smartphone version that did exactly that.  But it is stripped down in more ways than visuals and has a fraction of the production value, effort, or budget.  If they want to bring the entirety of FFXV to the Switch - the full size world, the cutscenes, the full length story, the mechanics, all of it - to the Switch but with lower graphical fidelity, rebuilding THAT in a new engine would be an absolute nightmare.  I concede that UE4 could work since they are doing similar gameplay things with FFVIIRe which could serve as a foundation.  But developing a whole new engine to use to rebuild all their games for Switch?  That would be taking the path of *most* resistance. 

The could keep the FMV sequences and just run those as video on Switch and then the gameplay segments could run off the Switch specific engine. 

It requires work, but as I said I guess they have deemed it worth it. Making an entirely new FF game from scratch for Switch would require far more resources. 

The Square-Enix CEO did say several months ago he wanted as many Square-Enix games as possible on the Switch. If they are willing to do that for XV, I have to think FFVIIR is also going to happen on Switch too. 

Ah, but there ARE no FMV/prerendered cutscenes in FFXV.  Or exceptionally few.  They run in real time.  Now they could make videos out of those but now you have potential file size issues.  

Now yes, I agree that if they have plans for XV, they likely have potential plans for FFVIIRe and the remasters.  But those are all on engines the Switch can theoretically handle at lower settings.  XV is the odd ball of SE's big titles, the only one built on an engine that has never run on anything lower than Xbone and PS4 and had development issues so it isn't the world's easiest toolset.  But maybe it is more flexible than we thought.  Or maybe they DO rebuild it in UE4, since FFVIIRe is using it and has foundational similarities.  Those are, in my mind, the most likely options.