The Change has an intensive library of video games protecting all types of franchises and whereas it is bought loads of Ultimate Fantasy titles these days, one recreation nonetheless lacking on this explicit collection is Sq. Enix’s large (and extremely profitable) multiplayer role-playing recreation Ultimate Fantasy XIV On-line. So will we ever see it on a Nintendo system?
Sport director and producer Naoki Yoshida (also called Yoshi-P) was not too long ago requested by Straightforward Allies about the potential of a Nintendo launch and talked about how he needs to see the sport obtainable on as many gadgets as doable in the long term. This apparently consists of Nintendo’s {hardware}, and on the price it is going, the brand new goal may probably be the Change’s “successor”.
Based on Yoshida, it is a longtime “dream, or purpose” for him to permit gamers to have the ability to play this on-line Ultimate Fantasy recreation on any system, and a launch on a Nintendo platform sooner or later is one thing he would completely “love” to see occur. This is precisely what he needed to say (by way of Nintendo All the pieces):
“My dream, or purpose, for greater than ten years at this factors is for gamers to have the ability to play Ultimate Fantasy XIV no matter system, and be capable to entry the servers to go in and entry the identical world. … we’ve been speaking for years to carry the sport on the Xbox platform, and so in fact we’d like to have our title obtainable on the Nintendo platform, and we do wish to proceed our efforts. However it did take plenty of time – with Xbox, we actually have talked for years, and it’s now lastly coming to fruition. We are going to attempt our greatest and proceed to work onerous at it and proceed our efforts. Ultimately, it might be cool – one thing that we’d like to kind of discover and make a actuality at some point.”
Once more, it looks as if we most likely will not be seeing Ultimate Fantasy XIV On-line throughout this present Nintendo technology. Even when it did occur, based mostly on sure different releases, it might be locked to pick areas or distribution strategies resembling cloud streaming. E.g. Dragon Quest X On-line (unique to Japan) and Phantasy Star On-line 2 (a cloud launch on Change).
Nintendo has additionally talked about now how its Change “successor” might be revealed this fiscal 12 months, so this remark is probably going already bearing in mind future {hardware} releases from Nintendo.
Ultimate Fantasy XIV On-line was most not too long ago launched on Xbox platforms, with gamers in a position to get pleasure from a free trial of the sport which presents fairly a considerable amount of content material. You possibly can be taught extra about this newest model of Ultimate Fantasy On-line on our sibling web site Pure Xbox.
In case you’re not accustomed to Ultimate Fantasy XIV On-line, because the identify suggests, it is a web-based model of the numbered collection permitting you to discover position play as a singular character, tackle a wide range of lessons and jobs, reside out your story, and save the day alongside a participant base of greater than 30 million adventurers.
