Final Fantasy 16 on PC shows signs of life, with producer Yoshi-P saying it will run best on an SSD-
We finally got our first word on Final Fantasy 16’s promised PC port since its initial announcement in September. Speaking with Famitsu (spotted via Genki_JPN on Twitter), FF16 developers Hiroshi Takai, Takeo Kujiraoka, and Naoki Yoshida (affectionately called Yoshi-P by fans) briefly touched on the PC version in a long interview about the game.
“Details will be announced in due course,” Yoshida replied to a question about recommended PC specs for the game. “However, I would like you to prepare an SSD… In FF16, a game where loading speed is critical, an HDD would be difficult to use.
“Of course, we will do our best to optimize as much as possible, but we cannot overcome the hardware barrier alone, so please consider that an SSD is a must.”
That makes plenty of sense: fast storage and the war on load times has been one of this console generation’s genuine technological leaps, and fast, cheap, high capacity SSDs are everywhere now. I built my last PC with a 256 gig solid state boot drive and a 1TB Western Digital Blue hard disc for storage, and that practically sounds like something your old grandpa would get in a reverie about in today’s bonanza of 2TB M.…
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