Closing Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade lastly making its strategy to a Nintendo platform—the Swap 2 on January 22, 2026—has raised some questions on how Sq. Enix will deal with its bodily launch. The corporate has since confirmed that, together with being accessible digitally by means of the eShop, Closing Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade may even be hitting retailer cabinets as a Recreation-Key Card. Which means consumers of the bodily recreation card will nonetheless have to obtain the whole lot of the sport.
Curiously, Closing Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade can also be poised to be the most important recreation on the Swap 2 with regards to cupboard space necessities. The Recreation-Key Card will want gamers to obtain round 87.9 GB of knowledge (by way of Eurogamer), which can eat into a serious chunk of the console’s 256 GB inside storage. For context, even the opposite variations of Closing Fantasy 7 Remake are fairly giant, with the PC model requiring 94.24 GB on the time of publishing.
On launch, Closing Fantasy 7 Remake Intergarde will overtake WWE 2K25 as the biggest title on the Nintendo Swap 2. The latter was previously the biggest, coming in at 73.2 GB.
The massive dimension of Closing Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade was possible the core purpose behind giving it a bodily launch by means of Recreation-Key Playing cards. Nintendo’s proprietary recreation format has an higher storage restrict of round 64 GB, and in addition are usually fairly costly for builders and publishers. Another excuse may also must do with the truth that operating video games off a Swap 2 cartridge may not be as performant as operating them off the inner storage, for the reason that cartridge has a usually slower switch charge.
Closing Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade’s Nintendo Swap 2 launch was introduced earlier this month. The discharge will basically be the “full” model of the primary recreation within the Remake trilogy, together with the bottom recreation in addition to its INTERmission DLC, which can have gamers tackle the position of Yuffie Kisaragi as she experiences the occasions of Remake from a unique perspective.
Lately, Sq. Enix additionally confirmed that every one video games within the Remake trilogy will likely be launched on all platforms. Which means we may even get to see Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth make its strategy to Nintendo Swap 2 and Xbox Collection X/S. The corporate’s wording additionally indicated that the third social gathering of the trilogy—at present unnamed—may even come to PC, Xbox Collection X/S and Nintendo Swap 2 concurrently with the PS5 launch.
Closing Fantasy 7 Remake was initially launched on PS4 all the best way again in 2020. Since then, the title has made its method on to different platforms. It was joined by a sequel—Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth—again in February 2024, which was then launched on PC nearly a full yr after its authentic PS5-only launch.
Since then, Sq. Enix has made it some extent to maneuver its recreation launch technique to be multiplatform fairly than counting on exclusivity offers with a single platform proprietor. Together with new video games, the corporate additionally plans to launch extra of its again catalog on completely different platforms.
