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The story
The Nintendo Switch2 version of Final Fantasy VII Remake has appeared in a sale offering up to 75% off at Nintendo’s official store. On the thread, some expressed surprise at how cheap the price got — down to 1,300 yen — while others complained about it eating into the Switch2’s already tight 256GB of storage, or about the trilogy’s structure, where progression data resets every time you move on to a new title. Voices welcoming the speed of the price drop mixed with concerns that it would just end up as another unplayed “backlog” purchase.
“Okay, that’s actually cheap”
Source: store-jp.nintendo.com / Original article here
What people said
It's obvious they're panicking hard.
Are you the type of person who never panics about anything?
The view-count gap between Stellar Blade and FF7R3 is double again.
That's because Bayo(netta)'s in it.
Maybe that'll happen a few years after it's fully out.
I'm thinking along the same lines, but I bet I'll end up never buying it at all.
Even if the trilogy someday hits 1,980 yen, I'd probably just let it pile up unplayed.
Actually, that makes me NOT want to play it.
Progression resets with every title, so there's no motivation to keep going.
Clear part 1, and part 2 has you leveling up from zero again.
Yeah, nobody ever shows up saying "I've been waiting for this, gonna buy it."
Well, /geha/ (gaming-hardware board) is basically a gathering of people trash-talking games they never intended to play anyway.
Wasn't this already free via PS Plus's Free Play lineup?
"Free Play" isn't actually free, you know!
And I literally just cleared it yesterday, 46 hours in lol lol.
If you haven't played it and you've got time off for Silver Week, go ahead and buy it, no regrets.
It was genuinely fun.
Does this hold up on its own?
I've already seen the ending on video though lol
The Remake built up such good momentum
that I figured that was a fine place to stop.
Ended up dropping Rebirth too, around chapter 11 or so.
Just play the Remake, that's enough.
It's only 1,300 yen, so if you've got even a little interest in FF, just buy it lol
I went and impulse-bought some game called "Super Chameleon" for 600 yen yesterday with zero info on it
Haven't even launched it yet, by the way.
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I've decided I'll get a 1TB memory card once those go on sale.
Just delete the games you're done with lol
Yeah it's cheap, but the storage though…
With only a 256GB SSD it's rough.
There's barely room to run Elden Ring and Fire Emblem alongside it lol
Just let us pick a lighter, downgraded-graphics version already lol
I've got way too many sale purchases piled up unplayed.
I want to clear my backlog before part 3 comes out.
There's still time until next year, so no need to rush, maybe.
Classic.
You go to buy it in a sale and realize it already says "purchased" — that's when you know you're screwed lol
It's basically completely on-rails gameplay, and the "okay, free time starts now!" activities (sidequests) are entirely managed for you through the menu screen.
But hey, there are plenty of moments in life where you'd rather take a domestic bus tour than a solo trip to Africa lol lol lol
Well, probably just because pre-orders opened a week earlier for that one.
Even the dedicated trailer from the recent Nintendo Direct didn't pull great view counts for FF, so it probably won't sell well.
Rebirth's combined PS5 + Switch2 physical sales are around 400,000 units total, so if this sells even half of that…
I really think FF13 was the turning point that never should have happened for the series.
Isn't this always on sale? Every time I look, it's on sale, come on.
This is the first time it's hit 75% off (on Switch2, anyway).
That's Wasei-eigo (Japanese-coined pseudo-English) — so it already counts as Japanese.
Zelda actually has less content and the characters just hop around — what do you even mean by "the kind of numbers Zelda does"? You keep pulling this move of flexing other games at people, but you're just namedropping randomly — I have no idea what point you're trying to make.
Am I seriously supposed to just spam weak attacks the whole time until then?
And you can't swap elemental magic (Materia) mid-battle — so what am I supposed to do if my element doesn't match the enemy's weakness?
Even grinding EXP just unlocks weapon "power" or whatever? Attack power barely climbs?
Seriously, what is this?
This feels more like an action game than an RPG?
Then why'd you even buy it?
Isn't the time-gate thing just there to balance it like old-school FF? Never played it myself so I wouldn't know.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Final Fantasy VII Remake is a series entry released in 2020, the first installment of a planned trilogy. Because the trilogy’s structure resets progression data whenever players move on to the next title, the thread split between comments like “that kills any motivation to play the whole thing through” and “at 1,300 yen, that’s cheap enough to be worth it.” The Nintendo Switch2 also comes up often in these discussions because its built-in storage is a relatively modest 256GB, making it hard to keep multiple large titles installed at once — and true to form, complaints about storage space surfaced even before praise for the cheap price this time around. Note that the sales rankings and view-count comparisons cited in the thread reflect informal tallies and impressions from 5ch users, not official published statistics.
*This article was compiled and summarized from the 5ch Hardware/Industry (Geha) thread “Switch2’s FF7 Remake Hits 75% Off in a Sale.”
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