{"id":225681,"date":"2025-09-14T08:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/225681\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T08:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:12:14","slug":"no-switch-2-upgrade-path-for-dragon-quest-vii-reimagined-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/225681\/","title":{"rendered":"No Switch 2 &#8220;Upgrade Path&#8221; For Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Dragon Quest\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/06e79ad5388d1\/dragon-quest.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dragon-quest.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Dragon Quest\"\/><\/a>Image: Square Enix<\/p>\n<p>During this week&#8217;s Nintendo Direct broadcast, Square Enix announced it would be bringing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/dragon-quest-vii-reimagined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined<\/a> to the Switch and Switch 2 in early 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, an FAQ page for this title has gone live on the official Dragon Quest website in Japan, and it&#8217;s confirmed there is no upgrade path currently available or planned for the Switch version. Here it is in full:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Q. Can copies of the Switch version of Dragon Quest VII Reimagined be upgraded to the Switch 2 version?<\/p>\n<p>A. No, there is no upgrade path currently available or planned. Please buy your copy for whichever system you would like to play it on.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, save data from the Switch version of Dragon Quest VII Reimagined cannot be transferred or carried over to the Switch 2. Download codes for in-game bonus items are also tied to the platform you purchase the game on.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The Switch 2 version and Switch version are treated as seperate games, so save data cannot be transferred or shared between them. (This also applies to transferring data from the Switch 2 version to the Switch version.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Square Enix previously shared an FAQ for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/dragon-quest-i-and-ii-hd-2d-remake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dragon Quest I &amp; II HD-2D Remake<\/a> outlining the same restrictions on Switch and Switch 2.<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts about this? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.dragonquest.jp\/dq7r\/faq\/en.html\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dragonquest.jp\/dq7r\/faq\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\">dragonquest.jp<\/a>]<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753583950_71_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Square Enix During this week&#8217;s Nintendo Direct broadcast, Square Enix announced it would be bringing Dragon Quest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":225682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[122089,2468,395,2762,158,67,132,5803,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-225681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-dragon-quest","9":"tag-nintendo-switch","10":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","11":"tag-square-enix","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-upcoming-releases","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115201647922552758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}