Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade Headed to Switch 2 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 April 2025 / 2,704 Views
Square Enix announced Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2.
The game is an enhanced version of Final Fantasy VII Remake. It first launched for the PS5 in June 2021 and for PC in December 2021. The sequel, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, is currently available on PS5 and PC.
View the announcement trailer below:
Read details on the game below:
Experience a modern reimagining of one of the most iconic games of all time on Nintendo Switch 2. Set in Midgar, players will immerse themselves in a standalone gaming experience designed for RPG players that crave unforgettable characters, a powerful story, and a strategic battle system that merges real-time action with command-based combat. Including FF7R EPISODE INTERmission, an additional story arc happening during the events of the game.
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Finally the shackles have been removed...
I hope everyone who hasn't played this finally will
More than happy to buy it again
What shackles? It's been on PC for almost 3 years now.
The shackles of PlayStation being the only console able to play this for far too long.
Like I said to Hope, the exclusivity contract was over years ago. Nintendo would have had this game long ago if Switch was powerful enough to run it so there was no console shackles at all. Plus it's been on the Steam deck console for years as well.
Regardless if it was 2, 3 or 4 years, the exclusive contract with Sony caused the delay of the game even being developed for other systems or else we would have seen something come to Xbox after the contract ended.
The game was finished in 2020 and had a 1 year exclusive contract. Sony didn't cause a 4 plus year delay of it coming to Switch (lack of switch capability did) or even Xbox. Xbox dug its own grave when it comes to Japanese games and a lot of Japanese publishers had games skipping its platform even now due to poor business and console sales. (Some SE games are still not coming)
And then there was another exclusive contract for Intergrade for who knows how long. Then followed by 2 more FF games being exclusive. They all play into each other. It's funny how after SE publically announces their finished making exclusive FF with Sony, those FF games are now coming to Switch and heavily rumored of Xbox getting FF7 this year too. Trying to twist how only the FF games with exclusive contracts with Sony skipped Xbox because Xbox sucks with Japanese games while niche spin off FF games have come to the system, Octopath Traveler, Star Ocean, and Dragon Quest games is a very disingenuous point. Playing this card isn't going to fly for this situation.
The shackles of the console exclusivity contract lol
Hopefully from here we will actually see the FF ip start to grow again
The console exclusivity contract was over years ago though. There was no "shackles" being placed on the game coming to Switch afterwards. The issue was on Nintendo having a system that couldn't run the game until now. If there was any shackles, Nintendo put them on themselves. for being so under-powered.
Square could make a game compatible with Switch. Anyhow going forward we know they will prioritize cross-plat so the shackles are clearly broken.
FINALLY!
If FF7 remake could have been made on Switch 1, Square would have already done it or announced it as coming to Switch 1 and 2. Hell, it took Square 2 extra years to get DQ11 on the Switch so they sure as hell weren't getting FF7R on there until a new system. So yes, FINALLY, Nintendo took "their own shackles off".
You have it upside down. Did Nintendo release BotW and TotK on the limited Switch 1? If Nintendo could pull that off, then certainly Square could have pulled off some version of FF7R that would work on Switch, look beautiful and be cross-plat (and made a fortune). Anyhow they played their cards poorly and now they are turning around, so again, Square FINALLY took off their own shackles!
BotW/Totk is not really a flex in that regard. I have an old smart phone that plays Genshin Impact. My initial point was Switch was underpowered and could not properly run FF7. If it did, it would came out long ago. The same reason it's now getting Elden Ring, CyberPunk etc. There was no shackles on FromSoft, or CDProject or Square. The shackles were on Nintendo for their lack of power in that system. Can you understand this point now? Or should I list the other 95% of old ports that are now launching for the Switch 2? Street Fighter? Was that Capcom's fault? Why didn't Sega have Yakuza like a dragon on the Switch1? I think you are the one who has things upside down. So enjoy the Switch 2 and all the late ports from 3rd parties that Nintendo can finally run since they took their own shackles off..
All these companies made a mistake. If these game could sell twice as much when including a switch launch, why forego just for a minor upgrade in graphics. You might disagree, but to me Zelda is tons beautiful enough.
So no I don't agree with anything you're saying, and I mean Nintendo proves me right, they won last gen and will win the next one and will eventually win the console wars it's obvious.
If everyone is behaving like an idiot, it doesn't make the next idiot any smarter.
I’m getting downvoted by a gold member, dumb enough to spend money to bash my posts. Anyhow if you think that what I said does not make sense, you’re free to disagree. At the end of the day, a dev can make a game of the level of beauty of BotW, then have tools to upscale it and increase the graphical quality for more capable consoles and everyone is happy. PS gamers are happy, PC gamers are happy, Switch gamers are happy and of course the devs/publishers are happy. I don’t know why this lunatic gold member downvoted me like this, but I think it’s pretty win-win-win and an obviously better decision. Whoever does not agree seems to be just platform biased, because the only advantage to not going this way is exclusivity to Playstation.
One of my faves, glad it's going to another platform.
I know Xbox is more niche than PC, PlayStation, and Switch. But I hope Xbox players get this game too.
Very unlikely, there is more than likely a clause in the contract with Sony that specifically prevent it from being on Xbox. And whatever S/E says, until they are actually publishing it on Xbox, we can only assume that.
Also, Xbox is not a niche... 32M Xbox Series out there; and while you can argue that Xbox players do not like FF, this is just not true. I know most of people owning an Xbox Series that would love to have this game on the system.
So other than Sony preventing it; I do not see any good reason to do not publish it, even if only 5% or 10% of those Xbox owners buy the game, it is still good money... (And I'm pretty sure I am being very conservative here...)
Less than 5% of PS5 owners bought FF7 rebirth and FF16 so I don't think you are conservative 5 to 10%. If it does 3 million on Xbox FF would be much more popular on Xbox than it is now on PS if we adjust to the playerbase.
Fair enough, I was talking about Remake (which sold way more) but I guess numbers from Rebirth would make more sense so long after the game came out.
I still think they would make money out of it; I have no doubts about it; which also why I also believe they will not make the same mistake for the next entry.
it seems i stand corrected lol. Didn’t know that SquEnix was allowed to do this so soon…but ig they could! Big news for FF!!
