Japanese publication Famitsu has held its traditional end-of-year interview round-up with game creators, speaking to 158 different people about their hopes and aspirations for 2025.
The replies weren't totally focused on games – some of the interviewees spoke about what they were looking forward to seeing in the worlds of movies, music and tech in 2025 – but it was interesting to note that two of the Square Enix staffers included in the round-up mentioned Switch 2.
When asked what he was looking forward to the most in 2025, Akitoshi Kawazu, creator and general director of the SaGa series, said:
It's not a work, but the successor to the Nintendo Switch that Nintendo will announce in 2025 and the corresponding market strategy that Nintendo will develop. I'm looking forward to it as both a user and a creator.
Square Enix co-worker Takaya Ishiyama, director of PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo, added:
The successor to the Nintendo Switch is coming out, right? Before the announcement of a new hardware, there are many moments of suspense and excitement from the perspective of both creators and players.
Switch 2 hasn't been officially shown off yet, but we've seen plenty of hints at what it might look like recently.
[source famitsu.com, via x.com]
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yo, if programmers don't have the consoles yet....
I hope we get to see some of SEs games the Switch missed out on like FF15, FF7 Remake and maybe FF16 and FF7 Rebirth (if technically possible) on Switch 2
This is very interesting. Nintendo need third party games. This is a good signal.
I mean, Square literally only has 1 game (2 if you don't count the pocket edition of XV) for Nintendo to catch up to their current releases of the core FF games.
@Selim - Well, technically Nintendo can pump out more games than the other two contenders. Even with them being bigger titans. Nintendo averaged just under 1 release a month.
If anything, the contenders need them more. It just so happens it is easier to drag and drop onto systems when the power is a lot more comparable. But many indies champion Nintendo being their biggest success, sometimes even bigger than their PC releases.
Am I the only one not to be excited by the next Nintendo console ?
So many games to play...and a life to live.
I haven't played Chrono Trigger or FF IV yet...
@Selim switch has plenty of 3rd party games on it alrdy.
If Square Enix haven't got the Switch 2 kits yet then that's concerning.
@MJF That's not what was said. The article headline is misleading. He's just talking up the new system and "market strategy" that Nintendo will pursue. They comments don't say they don't have the dev kits. You can bet hard money S/EA has had them for over a year.
Given the delays of the system, I hope the launch catalog is going to be epic. The key 1st and 3rd party dev groups have had more than enough time to work on titles and tune them for the new system. Ideally, they should be able to skip the usual launch title "mostly"-optimized code phase. But, I'm on the fence if this is a day one purchase until I see the launch catalog. Otherwise I might wait for Christmas and see if they do any bundles.
Visions of Mana deserves a second chance and I think Nintendo players are very much the target audience.
Yeah, the way the actual quotes are worded (and I checked them also in Japanese just to be sure) doesn't mean that Square Enix doesn't have their hands on Switch 2 development kits - I'd be surprised if them and other major third parties didn't at this point, but of course they can't say anything about that!
At this rate, we should band together and create a major AAA video game company so we can get our hands on the new console dev kits. It would probably take less time than waiting for the console makers to show their hardware off… what do you mean you can’t just make an AAA video game?
in square enix case making rpg takes a long time then platform or action games..
Would actually love FF13 remake/remaster for Switch 2. I never had a PS3 back then, but I still feel nostalgic over all the hype and mystique surrounding Fabula Nova Crystallis, including Versus XIII and Agito XIII. I wish they had stuck to the plan and that the Crystal Tools engine hadn't disrupted development and caused the games to splinter like they did.
It would be a fun marketing stunt to re-release a collection of those three games under the Fabula Nova Crystallis banner, as well as their original naming schemes.
@Jhena Visions of mana is fantastic. And you are correct I bet in switch it would double or triple what it did on other platforms.
@AdolBannings-Laylee
True. I had a great and magical time. It felt very good to play a new Mana game.
@Potimarron Have you tried Live A Live?
@Ulysses I think the absence of PS3 backwards compatibility on PS4/PS5 helps the chances of the FF13 trilogy coming to Nintendo hardware.
@NintendoWife No, I forgot this one. Thank you for reminding me "Live a live" exists.
@Grumblevolcano FFXIII-2 and Lightning would be great too, but more than those two I would love a proper Type-0 remaster akin to Crisis Core!
@Jhena @AdolBannings-Laylee @Jhena Just throw in a few Nintendo skins and it'll be like catnip for cats!
Yeah, SE probably has had dev. kits for a couple of years now. It's not like he's going to hint at any Switch 2 games they have in development.
@Potimarron Oh I was just trying to be funny, cause you wrote that you have a life to live
Fair to hype it up/they are excited for it. No E3 so whatever we hear of hype from devs besides the presentations about them saying it's great. Sure.
Whatever marketing strategy they have in place this time as well. Enough delays is fine for them to make it land as well when ready.
To me if the gimmicks are good and fair hardware power sure. But otherwise just better hardware/more power eh who cares, new system and probably fair launch titles, how long games take sure.
But a good gimmick and I'm interested. Even if games do matter for sure. Or I went eh 2021 I'll get a Switch because enough was out by then that was appealing. While waiting for the others.
@mariomaster96 A majority of those are awful, I rather they skipped those and just give us Star Ocean: The Divine Force, Valkyrie Elysium, and Visions of Mana instead. Anything mainline Final Fantasy after FFXII but before FFXVII must never be available on Nintendo platforms ever again, the only one I would accept is Final Fantasy Type-0 HD since that one is actually very good. Every game that were cloud titles on Nintendo Switch must never come to Switch 2, those already had reputation of being terrible so they should stay that way and be gone forever, this includes the entire Kingdom Hearts series. Every game they remake or originate on Super NES, PS1, PSP, GBA, DS, and 3DS must come to Switch 2.
Should they not already have access to it?
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