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Konami’s Steam page for its newly announced RPG ‘Rev. NOiR’ has revealed the PC recommended specs: a Core i5-12500 CPU, an RTX 2060-class GPU, and over 100GB of required storage. Those numbers make a Switch 2 version look unrealistic, and the thread lit up with comments like “basically the same specs as a PS5” and “that’s mothership-Tales-level volume.” Opinions on the game’s chuunibyou (over-the-top edgy “main character syndrome”) aesthetic were split, with hype and harsh criticism mixed together.
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 11 – 64bit
Processor: Core i5-12500
Source: store.steampowered.com / Original article here
What people said
Processor: Core i5-8600
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
Barely scrapes by a PS5, lmao
Doesn't even garbage-station [derisive nickname for PS5] have any allies left? 😭
So the 2060 performs the same as trash-can-5 [another mocking nickname for PS5]?
Looks like AI-generated art.
"B-Kane 2"? (reference unclear — possibly another title)
Still, the recommended specs are pretty steep even for PC.
Something like a 50-60 hour clear time
With this much storage, it's probably not the kind of game you blast through in 10-20 hours.
Which means you don't have to buy it.
Well, still better than Wolverine, I guess.
Though I don't even want the PC version.
I genuinely cannot understand anyone getting hyped for this.
It's because Tales has just been cranking out remasters and hasn't put out a real new mainline entry in over five years.
The dark atmosphere feels similar to Symphonia or Abyss, so as long as they don't botch the release timing, it could pick up a decent chunk of pent-up demand from Tales fans.
If anything, why can't YOU understand it?
You can clearly tell they put real effort into this.
Have you even played anything recent? Haven't you played Granblue Fantasy: Relink or something?
How many times bigger do you think the sales gap will end up being?
Dragon Quest actually sells reasonably well on PlayStation too, so I think they should treat it with a bit more care.
Stellar Blade — which that Korean developer is now tuning up for Switch 2 — is way more technically impressive than this.
CDPR and Rockstar go without saying, of course.
Pearl Abyss's Crimson Desert also deserves credit purely on the tech side, though the story's so bad they need to fix that.
But seriously, Japan's big publishers really are full of trash — stop putting people with no game-industry background in as president. Nothing improves until that changes.
I feel like today's JRPG fans still aren't big spenders either.
Do these specs actually match the target audience?
Doesn't look promising… 😭
It's like a ship that realized partway through the voyage it was headed for disaster and turned back to port.
That's the kind of despair you'd feel if, while stranded and drifting at sea, the rescue ship that finally showed up turned out to be the Titanic.
That said, this style of chuunibyou-flavored JRPG has a ton of lookalikes already.
Unless it has something that really stands out from those, it's probably not going to sell.
My guess is it quietly disappears, like Synduality, Code Vein 2, or Scarlet Nexus did.
I mean, that crowd's original fanbase is light novels and anime anyway.
They'd bite harder for a well-animated show than for a game with good graphics.
Persona's still number one when it comes to anime-style games.
Oh, so it's Wilds, huh?
Yeah, it is pretty strange to portray the early days of jazz culture with no Black people at all.
This mid-tier "Tales wannabe" ended up being the best of the bunch. 😇
Bandai Namco already screwed that up and flopped with Blue Protocol.
Since they can't release it on Switch 2, of course it ends up this demanding.
A minimum GPU spec of a 2060 is PS5-level, but if you count PCs weaker than that, it would actually still run on Switch 2.
If anything, there's even a chance they made it deliberately heavy on purpose, just for an excuse not to release it on Switch 2.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
While the Switch 2 does have more onboard storage than its predecessor, it still lags behind the PS5 and PC in GPU power and the cost of physical media, making ports of large-scale titles a tricky cost-benefit call. The recommended GPU in question here (RTX 2060-class) is actually a fairly standard bar for recent PC games, and a 100GB install size isn’t unusual for open-world RPGs either. In the thread, opinions split between those who took the large file size as a positive sign of a game made with real effort, and those who felt a sense of déjà vu about its chuunibyou-style world and character designs — anticipation and cynicism ran about neck and neck. The thread also drew attention for reasons beyond specs, with some users flagging issues around the portrayal in Rhapsody in Scarlet, another title Konami announced at the same time.
*This article was compiled by excerpting and summarizing the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “Konami’s new ‘Rev. NOiR’, a hefty 100GB RPG, looks set to skip Switch 2.”
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