It would not have sold extra 3-4 million copies over the lifetime sales of the current game (including Switch 2 port) lol. A simultaneous release (which would've been expensive and challenging on Switch 1) would have cannibalized sales off Playstation, but the combined lifetime totals wouldn't necessary be higher at all. You're just making wild assumptions. Crisis Core Remake sold like shit on the Swtich, and got demolished even in Japan. Hell it was being outsold by the Xbox versions in the UK for at least a few weeks iirc. The global FF7 fanbase are still heavily skewed towards Playstation.

You're underestimating how many Switch gamers are multi-platform owners. The majority of the "core gamers" who are into JRPG's own or have access to a Playstation or a PC (I own a gaming PC and have access to a PS5 and a Switch). You're also underestimating the Playstation brand, all the PS5 needs is a permanent pricecut and it will fly off the shelves again. It's not true that Playstation "hit up against a roof" unless hardware sales are your only measurement, ignoring everything else including price. Playstation just hit a highest active player base number recently, and it keeps breaking one record after the next. So while some of you criticisms/arguments/concerns are valid and I share them, you tend to be a hyperbole lord.

I'm laughing my ass off at the amount of gymnastics some people are doing to try to justify the viability of timed exclusives xD

I wonder whether Xbox will get in on this?

It seems not otherwise it would of been announced by now. I'm suspecting Sony are comfortable with the Switch ports because they will all be late (including Part 3).

With Expedition 33 getting good traction on gamepass, I wouldn't be surprised if appetite for FF like RPGs increase on Xbox. 

Oh good lord. Rebirth is held together with tick tavk and a dream on PS5, litterally feels like it could fall apart at any moment and if they use the same visual trickery then handheld mode will be just a world compromised of noticeable little square pixel like structures. Perhaps if you hold the S2 at a distance it won't matter but I can not imagine playing this game in handheld. If they make the consessions in the same manner as the base PS5 version and follow that out then it will have really game impacting issues. I would very much advice Switch 2 people to hold bavk on this one and get a port report, the PS5 version feels stretched as is. This could go very badly and have gameplay impacting effects.

Also, they still haven't patched chadly to cut or skip him after side stuff, if they won't do the fans the most basic of efforts like this I know they are not listening and don't care about the users experience with the game as long as they sell. 

Digital Foundry pegs the performance mode on PS5 at about 1152p, at a fairly solid 60fps.

I imagine they'll start there, cut it to 30fps, carefully trim back settings like textures, shadows, draw distance, etc, and lean on DLSS to salvage image quality.

I'm sure a decent conversion is possible considering what devs were able to squeeze out of Switch 1 with games like Witcher 3, Dying Light, or Hellblade which on paper had no business running on a Tegra X1.

I suppose. It's not exactly a game with such severe image quality hits as is considering that AC Shadows showed us that there shouldn't be a problem with hardware and CO E33 showed us that UE5 and engines aren't the problem. 

Still they would really wanna clean up that image for handheld mode and take the hits somewhere else, even if it marred in ailising and low res that trick where everything is arranged into little rectangular patterns won't work when you're right up close to the screen. 

One of the cornerstones of Switch 2's hardware is DLSS, which is designed to reconstruct a decent image from very low resolutions, so that should help a lot.

It will take a visual hit for sure compared to the PS5 version, but a decent portable rendition should be possible.

Honestly I don't get this take about VII Rebirth on a graphical level. Overall it's clearly quite rushed so there is inconsistencies but in terms of hardware it performs solidly.

The quality mode is crystal sharp 4k and stable 30. The performance mode is softer than it should look but it's not like 720p or anything. It looks like a post process heavy 1080p image but I guess people are so use to upscaling that it looks bad to them now. FPS wise the performance mode is not optimised and has no visible cutbacks on graphic settings which means there's plenty to work with on S2. In reality SE should have dialed back some settings to maintain a higher res on PS5's performance mode but the game was clearly rushed.

The Switch 2 port won't be that hard to manage once they actually start dialing back settings. I think cutting notably on Fooliage, landscape geometry and particle FX will produce a solid 520/720p 30fps on Switch which can be upscaled. Textures will take a natural cut at a lower rest and then it just becomes a matter of whether they fix/implement a better post proccess AA to make it look sharp. DLSS is right there and they've implemented it for the PC and PSSR for Pro, so I'm sure it'll be fine. 

Also I feel sorry for people who refuse to play at 30fps. 2 games which people moaned about FFVII Rebirth and Star Wars Jedi Survivor are both clearly meant to be played in quality mode lol

Amen, some of the best games ever made are 30fps and I can't imagine limiting the games I can enjoy so arbitrarily.