Do you guys not have phones?

I don't think they suck ass, but if you don't like they ok.

As said before if someone wanted to play FF VII there were plenty of ways before Switch version launched, such as emulator, steam, phones.

Yes I understand the story. And you wanted to reply just to give a jab at me?

Man, FF IX isn't really a hard game and you don't need grinding for the regular story (extra/special bosses are another thing though). Have you kept your whole party in use to have consistent levels? Have you changed your equips often to be sure you are always learning new abilities that you may equip before boss fights? Those are the key for the bosses in this game.

One tip I can give you is mindfull of the passive abilities and counters/equips. There was one fight where all my team had counters or reflection. And the boss used elemental which when reflected recovered his life. This battle took me 2h to finish because I was stubborn and didn't reload.

Bit of a "lost in translation" issue. By Western Market I mean the Western Europe market (as in the Western half of the Great Schism) and associated portions. The Americas are kind of their own thing, a separate market. Western World would areas that emulate Western culture: including the American market, and also Japan, so that doesn't really work.

While the games weren't officially available, they were widely available due to import. Before FF7 I had played FF1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (although only part of 5 because A. I played it on emulator after 6 but before 7, and B. there was some kind of transparency bug). Fire converters were very popular among SNES RPG fans (and gamers in general) prior to FF7. Then afterward, emulators were ferociously popular... even for games they weren't required for.

I am one of the 4 people that played FF7 via mobile.

But the point is that it's released on a Nintendo console =D

And this is more of a reply to the people who have responded, who might be too young to understand, or not a fan of RPGs in the 80s and 90s:

FF7 being on a Nintendo platform is like having divorced parents, and then 25 years later you're eating Christmas dinner together with them both in the same house in that time! Maybe this is missed on younger people, but for people like myself who were heavily invested in these two companies being together for years, it has really symbolic meaning.

Out of Topic , the modded version on PC are amazing . The background art resolution has been enhanced using an AI neuron tech and even better then the original remaster/PC/PS platform/other console that look  the same, with super low quality resolution 

https://www.pcgamer.com/ai-neural-networks-are-giving-final-fantasy-7-a-makeover/

Back to Topic, congratulation  for whoever waiting this games coming to Nintendo platform for 22 years. This remind me of the 90's era where Nintendo fans was disappointed by  Square (before it was joint by Enix) . It was a big announcement and a sign that PS1 will beat nintendo 64 to the ground. Also many journalist was blaming Nintendo because the reason is the are using cartridge. I do hope it released on Switch cartridge tho because it will shows how far the tech has evolve from having limited space to current tech with a lot of space.  

It's true!  Nintendo lost Squaresoft because of cartridges.  Now we need the game on a cartridge to come full circle.

FFVII is my second favorite game of all time, but I'm not planning on buying it unless it comes on a cartridge.  I'll just play my PS1 version otherwise.  But don't get me wrong, I'd frikken love to have this game on a cartridge.

Yeah, it's good to see it release on Switch.

I was mostly just messing with killeryoshis but also a bit shocked to see that he's been wanting to play the game since 1994. I can't imagine waiting 25 years for something that you're interested in. In comparison, my patience must be close to 0 because it feels like I've been waiting since forever for Obsidian's "The Outer Worlds" and Denis Villeneuve's "Dune".

I am messing with you. I wasn't even born when Final Fantasy VI came out. Also, I already played the game. It was a fun game. 

I rather die a thousand deaths before I play a game like Final Fantasy VII on Phones 

I'm a Nintendo fan and even I blame Nintendo on this one. Specifically, the very bad decision making by Yamauchi in the time of the N64 caused tremendous and irreversible damage with exclusive second and third parties. To lose Square the way he did was a TREMENDOUS failure, in 1995 no one would have dreamed that would EVER be the case. I think what really put me on the "blame Nintendo" side was how Yamauchi was a dick to RPG fans; I mean, I was still a Nintendo fan, I wasn't personally offended, but I saw where the blame clearly was. The thought I had was "Oh, Yamauchi's an asshole, that's why we lost the third parties developing my favourite genre."

On the screenshots, I would LOVE the second one (the one on the right). The semi-realistic character dimensions don't look right to me, so I would prefer models more closely resembling the originals. I wish Square would put these updates through to the official versions.