These of you contemplating enjoying Closing Fantasy 16 on PC at any time when it launches will need to be sure you have an SSD in your rig.
Again in September, when Closing Fantasy 16’s DLC was introduced, it was additionally lastly revealed {that a} PC port was within the works (one thing everybody usually knew anyway). We nonetheless do not know when the beforehand PS5-exclusive recreation can be launching on PC, and even what sort of specs you may have to run it, however in a latest interview with Famitsu, producer Naoki Yoshida did affirm one factor on the very least: you may want an SSD. As translated by PCGamesN, Yoshida touched on the PC launch, saying, “Particulars can be introduced in the end. Nonetheless, I would really like you to arrange an SSD. Even when we did our greatest to regulate the GPU, in Closing Fantasy 16, a recreation the place loading pace is important, the HDD can be a ache.
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“After all, we’ll do our greatest to optimise as a lot as doable, however we can not overcome the {hardware} barrier alone, so please take into account that an SSD is a should. We are going to announce the precise beneficial specs on one other event.”
For these unfamiliar with the variations between an HDD and SSD, the latter are quicker as a result of they learn knowledge digitally, making it lots simpler to run large, flashy video games. Because of them being higher, although, they’re additionally usually dearer than HDDs per gigabyte, so many PCs will not include one in-built. Figuring out how visually intense Closing Fantasy 16 is as a recreation, it is not precisely stunning that you will probably want an SSD for it, although it clearly may come as a little bit of a disappointment to these with barely older rigs hoping to strive the sport out.
In the identical interview, Yoshida additionally mentioned that you just in all probability should not count on a sequel to Closing Fantasy 16.
