Braid: Anniversary Edition Coming To Nintendo Switch Next Year

Hopefully it comes to switch. Such a great game!

130 million+ potential lost sales. What a dumb decision.

Well, at least there is a PS5 version.

Maybe Netflix didn’t want another portable version other than their own and paid to keep it off Switch.

Probably cancelled. Move on.

Switch 2 launch title...
Announcement in an Indie Showcase...
Cancelled because of <insert fan theory here>...

@GrailUK
"It cancelled because we (the developers) are too cool to release our games on video game machine for babies"
(Sarcastic Mode ON)

Might be a case of “I don’t want to compromise my vision”. Real annoying he hasn’t listed a reason why Switch is not listed or even an acknowledgment.

ALWAYS the afterthought. At best.

This will obviously be coming to the switch's successor, there's no reason to not announce it now otherwise.

There's no mention of a Switch port cause Nintendo is withholding its release date on Switch until the February Nintendo Direct. The game is not cancelled on Switch, just won't be reveal yet. We all know Nintendo like to do this, we seen them do this time and time again.

If this randomly gets a physical version on PlayAsia, I am importing it without thinking.

@RupeeClock Didn't stop Dark Souls Remastered from just being Dark Souls without the remastered.

@Serpenterror does your uncle works at Nintendo?

@KayFiOS except it ran a lot better than the 360/PS3 versions ever did.

Jonathan Blows

Yeah I really don't need a second go around with this game anyway, least of all for 15+ hours of commentary. The best way to experience this game is through Blow's segments on Indie Game the movie.

@Savage_Joe I work at Nintendo, I was their best ninja lol...

@Serpenterror This seems like the most probable explanation. It’s not the first time a game was announced for everything except Switch then got announced in an indie direct.

There's often an Indie Direct (or Mini or Partner) in late Nov or early Dec, maybe it'll be in there?

Damn I thought this was already on Switch!

@Serpenterror Probably right, just weird that they’d do that when it was announced for Switch anyway

Brilliant game. But i remember vaguely that Blow was not very fond of Nintendo. Or of anything, really.

This game is boring as hell, but was praised like the second coming of jesus because the indie scene was tiny. I miss the early 2010s so much.

@rushiosan It was really not. It wasn’t for you then, but it was not boring.

wait for a Nintendo Direct/Indie World Showcase, for a confirmation of the game coming to Nintendo Switch, every time such games is anounced and theres no mention of Switch, is always we gonna anounce such/said games coming to Nintendo Switch in a Nintendo Direct/Indie World showcase, nearly 7 years of the console and all of you should have already expected this outcome

Isn’t there another Indie World due? Maybe the annoucement is being saved for that?

I could imagine Switch being a bit of a hassle to port for. I know that Jonathan Blow didn't even want to attempt a port of The Witness.

I remember this game. Jonathon Blow( the head developer)and Soulija Boy had major beef. It's the funniest thing ever.

Guess I’m resigned to playing on mobile…sigh

I'm still waiting, because Braid is awesome.

I agree that the early 2010s were a very different time for indies. But Braid was a genius gameplay concept which nobody had ever seen before, and to this day I don't think there's many (if any) games which let you reverse time with no limit like this. Perhaps Baba Is You but that's not exactly real-time movement.

I actually hated the game back when it was released, and I LOVE indie games. Unfortunately I found it very boring and cryptic. It just never clicked with me. This news really doesn't affect me if it's exempt from Switch.

@Gavintendo Not even confirmed yet and people like you are already being toxic. Is that really necessary? Is this the mentality you want to paint for the Nintendo install base for Third-Parties & indies??

No reason this couldn't come to Switch, especially after they confirmed it was. A shame if it doesn't, I would be willing to buy it as along as it does.

@Link-Hero
"If you only have a Switch, then it's no one's fault but your own for limiting yourself."

I know people who only play on the Switch because they can't afford to buy another console or a gaming PC. It's a bit disrespectful to say it's their fault for not being wealthy.

Oh yeah, here's another take:

It might still be coming to Switch. BUT. Quite a few games, released simultaneously on Switch and elsewhere have taken some pretty brutal hits in sales on everything that was NOT Swtich. Meaning, either perception or availability does something to how players see a game.

Perhaps some PC/Xbox/PlayStation owners perceive a game to be less enticing if it also able to run on the Switch's seven year old mobil chipset. Or, they might feel that they aren't getting to have anything to themselves anymore, because everyone wants a piece of the Nintendo cake.

Whatever the reason for the statistics, something that -could- seen as a strategy of not announcing the Nintendo version, but still eventually releasing it, is something I have seen happen before.

Whenever the Switch version does come out, it is still fairly sure to sell, it seems. So perhaps better to spend you initial efforts on getting your game to maket on the platforms that are, admittedly, more lavish to develop on, and let those players also feel that they are getting the best version, and getting it first.

/wild conjecture

Is this a game about ex-football manager Kevin Keegan trapped in a painting?

@Link-Hero Maybe because the people that want it on Switch may want the portability feature of the console? Maybe the other consoles don't have enough of the games they want to justify the purchase? Way to turn a potential choice into a "fault". If the fact that the game may not be coming out on Switch twists their socks, that's more on them.

Back to the game: like others stated, it never clicked with me. I got it as part of a Humble Bundle probably when those bundles started. I played it a bit but never went back. I recognize the work Blow put into it (I think he wrote an adventure game for the Tandy Color Computer for a contest and that sucker was COMPLEX-lots you could do. In a game written in BASIC of all things) so no disrespect to him.

Okay so I've heard the name Braid thrown around but had no idea what it was until this trailer.

And, like, omg the main guy looks like a huge dork??? And he runs...backwards but you're rewinding time so it's the same animation as forwards; this is too good, haha

It certainly looks good though! We'll see what happens if it comes to Switch.

i told Braid would come to Switch, that fuss was very unecessary

I don't think it's a good game but I have beaten it many times.

will likely get it to have it on the go but since seeing the ending i dont like the protag much.

Great to hear confirmation, definitely getting this on Switch.

lol Some of the early posts here didn't exactly age well.

I don't see a description of what is different on the anniversary edition

@Serpenterror LOL. You were pretty darn close 😂

Glad to see it officially announced! Knee-jerk reactions to things that are non-confirmations are fascinating as this has been happening in the biz for SO long, it’s almost astonishing that everyone wrote it off as being a lost cause so quickly. Granted, there are times when omission is confirmed cancellation, but I think it’s the exception. This is weird PR on the original article, but this is so common an occurrence, you know? Like, years ago, we all knew Persona 5 was gonna eventually hit the switch, because why wouldn’t it - it just took forever to announce. But of course it was going to happen.

The weird one is that we have had the years of rumors about TP/WW, and the fact that that hasn’t happened is actually the most astonishing ‘news’ in the seven years of the Switch’s life.