Final Fantasy XV might get a Nintendo Switch version

[Marc]

I'm hoping Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata really does decide to make a Nintendo Switch version of the game. He has already revealed his intention to bring it to the console after the FF XV Pocket Edition announcement :

We're actually doing very specific technical investigations into what's possible at the moment. Where we are at the moment - we've completed those tests and have worked out where the ground lies. We're currently in the middle of the discussion and debate about what we should be doing, and how to realise that on the Switch.

The other thing - you see the mobile version, the PC version, one thing we value is to optimise the way the game plays and the experience for the individual hardware it's on rather than a one-size fits all approach. We can't currently announce anything - we haven't come to a full decision on the best way to do it yet. We're having very open, frank discussions with Nintendo at the moment about what they think is the best thing to do. It's all under investigation.

Do you guys feel it'll make it to the Nintendo Switch?

There's some talk about how Doom and Wolfenstein 2 have already been confirmed for a Nintendo Switch release, making it seem like the full Final Fantasy XV game is fully capable of getting a Switch release too.

 

[Knight]

I wouldn't be too surprised if it did, but I expect either the graphics to be downscaled to match the console specs, or some other mechanics to be simplified. If they can make a mobile edition, it shouldn't be technically impossible to make a Switch version either. It would be nice to have a main series Final Fantasy game on a Nintendo console again.

 

[Big Yoshi]

"Honestly, when we did the technical test to see if we could use the same native engine we used on other console versions on the Switch, we tried to run it there, the results weren't satisfactory," said Tabata. "It wasn't what you'd want from a final game. It doesn't mean that's the end of that - we're looking at the options, like the customisation of the engine. To give you an example how open those discussions are - we're talking to Epic at the moment, about maybe what we could possibly do there, and if we did a Switch version maybe we'd be able to partner and do something there. Their Unreal environment is just amazing, and will be very useful. You have to have all those options on the table - without that it'd be impossible to make a decision about what we can do on that platform."

They might be doing it with Unreal Engine 4. I wonder if they're going to rebuild the game or get help from Epic Games to port the game without rebuilding it.
Edit: Forgot to say that the quote is from the same article.

 

[Major]

I'm thinking of picking it up once it comes out on steam since I don't have the other systems to play it. I hear the steam one will have all the DLC with it but I would have to wait and see if that bit of news is true. If it is then that would be awesome. Still going to wait for more time to pass before I think of getting a switch but if it is coming for the switch as well then that would be a good thing to have on it.

 

[Big Yoshi]

I'm thinking of picking it up once it comes out on steam since I don't have the other systems to play it. I hear the steam one will have all the DLC with it but I would have to wait and see if that bit of news is true. If it is then that would be awesome. Still going to wait for more time to pass before I think of getting a switch but if it is coming for the switch as well then that would be a good thing to have on it.

You'll probably need a monster PC to run it well...