The original Final Fantasy VII on the PlayStation was the first mainline game to move away from Nintendo hardware taking advantage of the PlayStation’s disc-based system. In a recent interview Final Fantasy VII remake series director Naoki Hamaguchi said that “it kind of feels like fate” finally bringing the remade trilogy to the Nintendo Switch 2. Mr. Hamaguchi said he’s curious to see if fans come back to the Final Fantasy VII journey now all three parts of the remake will be on Nintendo Switch 2.
“First of all, I have to say, I personally have a really big emotional connection to Nintendo hardware myself. I’m quite interested to see how they do from a personal perspective because obviously, as you know, Final Fantasy 7 was the first Final Fantasy numbered game which went away from Nintendo hardware. Up until then, it had always been on Nintendo. So it kind of feels like fate, destiny that this is now bringing 7 back to Nintendo hardware.
I’m really interested to see all the people of that certain age who maybe who wouldn’t have continued with their Final Fantasy journey to 7 because it went away from Nintendo, the people who are Nintendo fans. I really want to see them coming back to the Final Fantasy series with the Switch 2 versions of Remake and Rebirth now. So I’m really interested to see how well they’re doing just from that personal perspective.”
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The real Final Fantasy VII has been on Nintendo hardware since 2019, this is utterly meaningless.
That doesn’t mean he can’t still feel this way
The og final fantasy vii was suggested to be on N64 but die to format limitations they ultimately went to the Sony playstation
Im one of those.
It’s not a real test or indication of anything though, because most people have played the original and the remakes on the other platforms already, and so the majority won’t buy it on Nintendo (I will). The real test will be release a new numbered entry at the same time as other consoles (not months or years later) and see how it does. With Revelation, it’s somewhere in between because yeah that’s a new entry at the same time as the other platforms but it’s the third game in a trilogy, so chances are people will continue on PS5 rather than switching platforms to finish, even though it doesn’t carry over or anything. It’s just the fact that it’s what they already were playing on and have the physical editions for, might as well complete the set on the same platform. Plus again, it’s a remake of a game so there’s a good number of people that don’t want to play it for that reason, but may want to pick up FFXVI since it’ll be a brand new game. And spinoff titles aren’t a real test either since those will always be less sales. XVI will be the true test.
But I still get what he means of course and it’s still nice to see it return and there will be a number of people who do return because of that. I just hope they don’t base future releases on the stats of this if it doesn’t do as well as they hope and they understand the reasons above contribute to that.
Another game to come to the Switch, how Im excited to play Gruntilda the rhyming witch.
It’s going to sell tons on Switch 2
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