Final Fantasy VII Remake is shaping up to be something special on Nintendo Switch 2 with glowing previews from press and admiration from fans who have gone hands on with the game at trade shows. Speaking to AUTOMATON Japan, Final Fantasy VII Remake director Naoki Hamaguchi, has talked about how the team managed to make the game look visually stunning on the Nintendo Switch 2. Hamaguchi told the site that in essence it is all about the lighting and by applying it correctly they were able to reduce some other visual effects making it look great and run at a consistent 30fps. Mr. Hamaguchi closed the interview by saying that the “Nintendo Switch 2 is a truly amazing piece of hardware.”
“The Nintendo Switch 2 has great hardware specs,” Hamaguchi comments. “However, due to power consumption constraints, it’s designed to dial back performance a bit in handheld mode. So, since a straightforward port wouldn’t be enough to make the game run stably in handheld mode, we had our talented rendering programmers put in extra work on optimization.”
“I believe lighting is the crucial factor in terms of graphics quality and expression in this day and age,” Hamaguchi says.
“I’m extremely happy that we kind of managed to become a model case of a high-end game being ported for the Nintendo Switch 2,” Hamaguchi comments.
“In our experience, if you just use the hardware properly, you’ll be able to deliver games at the quality players expect. All in all, my honest opinion is that Nintendo Switch 2 is a truly amazing piece of hardware.”
““In our experience, if you just use the hardware properly, you’ll be able to deliver games at the quality players expect.”
Truer words were never said. Now if only most developers weren’t so damn lazy all the time…
But can it do the unbelievably amazing ray tracing in Rebirth that even PS5 struggled with it.
It really is. Truly. If you had told me 10 years ago there’d be a device like this, I’d have thought of it as some futuristic thing from a movie. Played through all of Cyberpunk and DK Bananza, and it’s legitimately just such a dream. Could not be more satisfied; it’s an incredible, amazing console, and I’m over the moon to be playing FF VII Remake Intergrade in just 3 months omg
From what i have understood so far, its weak point is the CPU, closer to a PS4 than the GPU, that is closer to a Series S (Plus some exclusive features that not even the Series X or PS5 have) at the end is a console that – if the developers really wanted to squeeze right – could deliver fantastic ports. im playing now SW Outlaws and Yakuza 0 ( After going back to night city, of course) and they are really cool ports. not once i felt like they were compromised, or not giving me the full experience.
You can’t compare CPUs like that…the one in the PS4 is an AMD Jaguar that you find on laptops, the one in the Switch is a Cortex, which is a mobile CPU, it’s all a question of energy saving…and for the Switch we can see it clearly, despite its Ampere architecture and its mobile CPU, it consumes a lot of energy
I bet the remake will run perfectly on the Switch 2 system. Sure it won’t be at 60FPS at launch as many of us thought it would be, but at least they are trying to reshape the balance for the remake since the game on the system suffer a few minor setbacks to prevent the game run unoptimized and poorly.
Yeah no just desperate to get this trash to sell and kiss up to Nintendo. Square is a dump hiring weirdos who support political violence in their western branches and egotistical maniacs for their Japan division and a con man running the comoany conning the shareholders.
Is that truly a fact?
The hiring of weirdos is definitely a fact. They/them/ahe/he/unicorn/non binary folk
Ask the director… he knows.
Google is your friend. Use it.
Wow, can you any lower than that?
Flop game and trash remake trilogy
Best games ever you mean! Especially Rebirth.