Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P Says There May Be 'Good News' in the Future About FF14 on Nintendo Switch 2

Have you played the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 14? With an expanded escaped proceedings which you tin play done the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award-winning Heavensward AND Stormblood expansions present up to level 70 for escaped with nary restrictions connected playtime? What's that, you haven't? You lone person Nintendo platforms and thing else?

Well, ne'er fear, due to the fact that Final Fantasy 14 shaper Naoki 'Yoshi-P' Yoshida is reasoning of you. In an interrogation with VGC astatine Gamescom this week, Yoshi-P answered immoderate questions astir the imaginable to bring FF14 to Nintendo Switch 2, and the quality seems promising. “For me, it’s conscionable my purpose to supply Final Fantasy 14 and 16 to arsenic galore players arsenic possible, and I anticipation that arsenic galore players arsenic imaginable volition beryllium capable to bask those 2 games,” helium said. “We are putting successful our champion efforts to guarantee that this happens, truthful it’s good to convey to your readership that I see the possibilities precise positively, and we are putting successful our champion efforts."

Yoshi-P continued by saying that this would beryllium a boon for existing players too, arsenic immoderate players mightiness privation to raid oregon bash main communicative contented connected PC, but could unbend connected the sofa with a Switch 2 and bash gathering and crafting much easily.

“When it comes to players who haven’t played Final Fantasy 14 before, the younger procreation of players, if they started playing Final Fantasy 14 connected Switch 2, of people being an MMO, it mightiness beryllium a caller genre for them, and I would beryllium ace excited to get these caller players into this genre and enjoying the crippled arsenic well.

“So to this end, we person been discussing with Nintendo, and the discussions person been positive, truthful I bash anticipation that players volition look guardant to hopefully bully quality successful the future.”

Final Fantasy 14 has agelong been disposable connected PlayStation and PC, but it precocious got Xbox and mobile releases arsenic well, making it 1 of the uncommon MMORPGs that's playable connected astir large platforms. Nintendo has been the main holdout, astir surely owed to past Nintendo systems not rather having the method capableness to tally an MMORPG of that size. Could the Nintendo Switch 2 yet grip Eorzea and each its denizens? Hopefully yes, and hopefully soon.

Yesterday, we did get immoderate Final Fantasy 14 quality astatine Gamescom Opening Night Live. We learned that a Monster Hunter x Final Fantasy 14 collaboration is connected the mode this fall, adding FF14 contented to Monster Hunter Wilds and vice versa. Unfortunately, if you're not already progressive successful FF14, you won't beryllium capable to conscionable leap successful and bask the Monster Hunter content. You'll request to person finished the latest expansion, Dawntrail, which is simply a hundreds-of-hours-long endeavor if you don't wage to skip astir of the story.

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