These of you contemplating taking part in Ultimate 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 Ultimate Fantasy 16’s DLC was introduced, it was additionally lastly revealed {that a} PC port was within the works (one thing everybody typically knew anyway). We nonetheless do not know when the beforehand PS5-exclusive sport might be launching on PC, and even what sort of specs you may have to run it, however in a current interview with Famitsu, producer Naoki Yoshida did verify one factor on the very least: you may want an SSD. As translated by PCGamesN, Yoshida touched on the PC launch, saying, “Particulars might be introduced in the end. Nevertheless, I would love you to arrange an SSD. Even when we did our greatest to regulate the GPU, in Ultimate Fantasy 16, a sport the place loading pace is essential, the HDD could be a ache.
“After all, we’ll do our greatest to optimise as a lot as attainable, however we can’t overcome the {hardware} barrier alone, so please think about that an SSD is a should. We’ll announce the precise really useful specs on one other event.”
For these unfamiliar with the variations between an HDD and SSD, the latter are sooner 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 costlier than HDDs per gigabyte, so many PCs will not include one inbuilt. Realizing how visually intense Ultimate Fantasy 16 is as a sport, it is not precisely shocking that you’re going to probably want an SSD for it, although it clearly would possibly 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 simply most likely should not anticipate a sequel to Ultimate Fantasy 16.