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@Stepan - Ah, I didn’t see the person you were responding to about playing existing discs. I don’t know, it really depends on what the disc drive can read. If it can read cd’s, DVD’s and BluRay maybe there is hope we’ll be able to play existing games. I share your doubt it’ll happen, unless it’s an easy feature to implement.

Letting people play their existing games would take away from subscription revenue for PS Plus to play those old games off their service.

@Stepan - Current rumors are that the PS6 probably won’t ship with a disc drive, but one will be available if people wish to continue with physical media.

@PegasusActual93 - Honestly, I don’t understand the frustration. There is a lot of great content out there and lot of great games that get remastered frequently.

@PegasusActual93 - Because there is obviously a demand for them. Hell, even I bought a couple of the old Sega CD re-releases for Switch. Why don’t these old FMV games deserve to be rediscovered? They’re a part of gaming history, also nobody is forcing you or anyone to purchase them.

@PegasusActual93 - it’s nostalgia. Yeah, these games are awful, but experiencing them again or even for the first time can take you back to that carefree wonder of that era.

As someone who gets limited playtime, sometimes I just want to cruise through a game to get through the story than repeat boss fights over and over because I suck at the game. Not saying this was the case for me with FF7R, but with Horizon I did tweak the difficulty settings to get through those games quicker.

@Gamer83 - I think adding Switch 2 as one of the platforms will help increase sales, however, it’ll be interesting to see how much that cuts into PS5 sales since many gamers own both. I don’t know that Xbox will add much either way.

@DennisReynolds - I’m more optimistic for a late 2026 release. I recall reading something in the past year that the voice actors have started recording dialogue for Part 3. When you also factor in that the most of the graphical assets have been already created from the first two installments part 3 shouldn’t take as long to develop as the first two.

@Rich33 - Personally I have enjoyed the FF7R games so far. Rebirth in my opinion was fantastic. Sure it had a lot of open world padding, but the original had that to an extent as well. My biggest complaint with Rebirth was how long they dragged out the final dungeon.

@Porco - Now that we’re almost a month out from launch, I have seen people preferring to play on Switch 2 over the Steamdeck.

I can’t stand old school turn based combat anymore, like in FF1-9, it’s too slow for my liking. But I would love if Square took the series back to the faster paced command driven systems like FFX or FFXIII, or even take the counter system from Expedition 33.

If they don’t want to go fully turn based again, the FF7R series is a good hybrid between command driven and action based.

@Porco - At least wait for reviews before proclaiming it’ll be the worst way to play the game. Geesh. 😆

@Porco - I think you miss the nuance that it’s impressive because it’s a handheld, not a dedicated console. Even if the Switch is producing output comparable to a PS4/PS4 Pro that’s sufficient for 1st party games and good enough to get plenty of ports. I will always own a Nintendo console and a PlayStation console, so I don’t mind if Switch 2 is under powered.

I can’t really do old school turn based combat anymore. I grew out of enjoying it in the years between Bravely Default and Bravely Default 2, it just feels slow. With that said, I loved FFX and FFXIII’s implementation of its turn based system, it was fast paced and fun.

I hope the next mainline FF game takes a hybrid approach like the FF7R games.

Honestly, I can see the PS6 being the last gen that has the ability to have a built in disc drive before Sony attempts to only offer a disc drive attachment. I don’t think physical media will go away permanently until the majority of the markets they sell in have high speed broadband.