FF7 Rebirth Director Naoki Hamaguchi talks about Game Key Cards

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Farsala said:

RolStoppable said:

Reminds me of the time when people wondered how big the mandatory download for Persona 5 Royal on Switch 1 would be when the game weighed in at around 40 GB on other platforms. The full game was put on a 16 GB game card on Switch 1 with some room to spare (file size of ~12.5 GB).

So would FF VII Remake fit on a 64 GB game card? Yes, there's no doubt about it.

But then it costs dev time to compress it properly, leading 3rd parties to conclude that porting to Nintendo consoles is not worth the trouble.

By now third parties have pretty much put themselves in a position where they can't choose anymore. In particular Square-Enix who relied on poor excuses for many years and then changed course to drop PS (timed) exclusivity.

Right now third parties are in the phase of denial where they believe that Switch 2 owners will just deal with it when it comes to game-key cards despite the early evidence pointing towards a broad rejection of game-key cards.