I’m not sure what possessed Bandai Namco to port the best Air Combat games to ever grace a gaming console, Ace Combat 7, to the Nintendo Switch, but that is precisely what the company is doing. What’s being called Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Deluxe Edition, which will include all the content previously released for Ace Combat 7, is now heading to the Nintendo Switch on July 11, 2024.
Here’s everything that will be included in the Nintendo Switch version of Ace Combat 7:
- ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN base game
- Downloadable content ” Three original aircraft sets” + “Three SP missions”
- Part 1 “ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN – ADF-11F Raven Set”
- Part 2 “ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN – ADF-01 FALKEN Set”
- Part 3 “ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN – ADFX-01 Morgan Set”
- Part 4 “ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN – Unexpected Visitor”
- Part 5 “ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN – Anchorhead Raid”
- Part 6 “ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN – Ten Million Relief Plan”
- Bonus “Music Player Mode”
- Playable Aircraft F-104C -Avril-
- Playable Aircraft F-4E Phantom II
- Three popular aircraft skins from the past series
- Eight popular emblems of the past series
What makes this more interesting is that the Switch is hardly as powerful as the consoles the game initially was developed for, the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and eventually the PC. Yet, despite that, from what I can see in the comparison video that was released alongside the port’s announcement, what has been done is nothing short of a technological wonder.
The game looks great, given that it is being run on the Switch, and even when compared to the PlayStation 4’s version, you’d be hard-pressed to find anything to complain about. That’s very impressive, and whoever is doing the port has done a fantastic job thus far.
While I don’t play on my Switch as much as I used to, I’m a big fan of the Ace Combat series, even when it was initially called Air Combat, and I think I’ll be checking out this point. If the rest of the game can impress me as much as this comparison video did…. I’ll be at a loss for words.
And who knows? If this succeeds, maybe we can get Bandai Namco to port over another successful game from its backlog, one that features cars zipping around very quickly.
