Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is coming to Nintendo Switch 2. And Xbox Series X|S, for that matter, but I don’t think I’ll be blowing any minds to say that the former is bigger news than the latter. Either way, we’ve known this was in the works for a while; what we didn’t know, until today’s Nintendo Direct Partner Presentation. The answer? June 3.
While supplies last, snagging FF7 Rebirth physically for Switch 2 will net you a nice Zack Fair card for Magic the Gathering. I’ll never entirely understand the fandom’s adoration for this guy, but at least he’s better-written in Rebirth than he ever was in Crisis Core. (I said what I said.)
And Yet…
If you were worried this particular Zack Fair variant would be unavailable through other means, I’ve got predictable news: you were right. While the card’s mechanics are lifted directly from its standard form in the Final Fantasy set, the artwork itself is brand-new. I happen to think it looks a bit more like Zack-by-way-of-Auron, but I digress. What’ll matter most to many is that the art comes courtesy of the one and only Tetsuya Nomura, so this is kind of a big deal.
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Well, technically, what will presumably matter most is how well Rebirth ends up running on Switch 2. We recently reported that the port could be en route for this summer, and now we know for a fact that it’s technically here a couple of weeks before the start of summer. (In fairness, most Northern Hemisphere denizens hear “June” and immediately think of summer.) But the question remains. Is this going to be as solid a port as Remake’s recent technical marvel?
I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that it will be somewhat more compromised by comparison. Don’t hold me to it, because Squar Enix have already proven once that they’re technical wizards on this project’s Nintendo-bound iterations. But Rebirth is… whew. It takes a lot to make such a monumentally bigger game than its predecessor run halfway decently to begin with; in fact, other than PC, I recommend going the PS5 Pro route over the standard-issue model. Which isn’t to say it doesn’t get the job done on PlayStation 5, because it does. But it’s a nice improvement.
Where does that leave things for Switch 2? The new trailer, seen above, looks pretty okay, right? But the grass is… hm. Not the greatest. Plenty of time yet to see how well things are shaping up before launch, however.
Either way, if Zack’s your boy, or you’re simply a Magic the Gathering diehard, you’ll want to pick this up for the variant art. Pre-orders aren’t live yet, but we’ll let you know when that changes.
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