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Virtuos has worked on all sorts of ports and remasters in the past. Their previous projects include Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, Final Fantasy X/X-2, HD, Batman: Return to Arkham, Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio Collection, and plenty more.

Now the studio is turning its attention to Switch. As spotted by Doctre81, senior programmer Xiaoyu Zhang states on LinkedIn that he’s involved with the porting process of a AAA title.

Here’s the relevant excerpt:

WIP: Porting a AAA title to Nintendo Switch

– Re-implement the renderer with Nintendo’s native graphics API(nvn)

– Design and implement the low level mechanism of graphics resource management and threading

– Exploit the performance advantages of the Vulkan-like API (UMA, explicit management of graphics memory, complete control over CPU/GPU synchronization, etc)

Zhang has been working at Virtuous since last March. It’s unclear how long the Switch project has been in development for, however.

 

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It would be really awesome if they ported FF X and FFXII to the Switch.Yes, yes, old ports and stuff, but for this first year, I think thats inevitable.

I mean, thats really hard to happen, but that would make the Switch even more appealing to RPG lovers.



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I wouldn't mind finally playing FFXII.



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Could be anything, not just FFXII.



GoOnKid said:

Could be anything, not just FFXII.

exactly



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This wouldn't be the first time we got a Final Fantasy XII spin off on a Nintendo system. However it is probably something else. Something a little bit more profitable. I think its an RPG since that will more likely sell.



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Looking at the list of previous games they've ported, Arkham seems like a reasonable possibility. Of course, we really have no idea whatsoever, so we're all just talking out of our asses.



Final Fantasy 1 is a AAA game.



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vivster said:
Final Fantasy 1 is a AAA game.

FF 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7 crisis core, 8, 9, 10, 10-2, 11, 12, 13, 13-2, lightning returns, 14 A realm Reborn and expansions and 15 too :p



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FFXII PLS!!!!!!!!
Its perfect for portable play