Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth-regissören utlovar en strålande Switch 2-version av spelet

Nästa år släpps en portning av Final Fantasy VII Remake till Switch 2 och av alla förhandsvisningar att döma har Square lyckats göra en visuellt imponerande portning av spelet till Nintendos hybridkonsol. Dess uppföljare är dock ännu mer grafiskt imponerande men nu har spelets regissör Naoki Hamaguchi sagt att de som ser fram emot den portningen inte behöver oroa sig. Han och teamet arbetar nämligen hårt med att versionen ska bli minst lika bra som portningen av sin föregångare.

"Obviously, we are working very hard to make sure that people are going to get that high quality they are looking for," säger Hamaguchi i en intervju med VGC. "I think we have kind of proved that concept to the world already, in some ways, with the release of Rebirth on Steam Deck. I think we saw a similar kind of reaction there, where people said,' wow, it's actually running on Steam Deck, it looks really good, it's a quality much higher than I thought they could get on Steam Deck'. In that sense, that was where we did the experiments, to work out how to get these high-level games into a mobile platform. Obviously, there is a bit of a difference in the specs and the capacity between Steam Deck and Switch 2 and various other handheld game systems. But I think we managed to get such a good result there, and that really did help with the planning and the understanding of how to do that going forward in the series."

Hamaguchi, som har en ingenjörsbakgrund, säger att det är hans personliga uppgift att se till att samtliga spel i serien fungerar bra på samtliga plattformar. Tack vare att man byggde ett system när man portade det första spelet till PC, där man kan justera grafiken så att den flyter bra, så kunde man sedan använda detta när man arbetade på Switch 2-versionen av FFVII: Remake.

Hamaguchi fortsätter: "I think we got a really good response to the first game on PC, and that's really helped us and given us the know-how and the ability to keep that going, reflect on that, and maybe even push it further in Rebirth and in the third game in the series going forward."

Han avslutar med att säga att de som ser fram emot portningen på Switch 2 inte behöver att oroa sig; "So what I want to say is, because of all that experimentation stuff we've done on the PC to make sure of that, Nintendo players in the future, you really don't need to worry at all. They're going to get a version that is just as satisfying and just as high quality as the first game, if not higher."

Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade släpps till Switch 2 den 22:e januari 2026.