Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Ralizah They were pretty brutal in their response though. One doesn't forget or forgive so quickly. They basically said what @Knuckles-Fajita said but worse. It was almost as if they said go screw yourself, we are more then happy to ignore the Switch as we made enough money off the other platforms.......months later, look at what Indies are doing on the Switch, maybe we jumped the gun and shot our mouths off a bit to hasty. Perhaps we could do this and double our money. I'm sure most will forget what we said many moons ago......

Heard good things about Hat in Time, although I never could see the hitch with a port other than the developers prowess with the Switch. Still...I missed all the drama. What did they say?

@GrailUK They basically said go f off as they were more then happy with sales and it will never happen.

It uses Unreal Engine 3 and the Switch doesn't support that. They figured it would be too much work to port. I'm sure their eye's got big with all the money Indies are making off them.

@Spoony_Tech OOOoooooh it's coming back to me. Hang on. My next post should be able to sum it up.

No

This is fun, every game I bought on X1 for under $9 is now coming to Switch!

@Spoony_Tech It's worth it to support them if only to make Switch their #1 platform and watch them have to interview with Damo 4 years from now and have to backpedal like Lance Armstrong near a drug-free zone.

Glad to see Hat in Time coming to Switch. I don't think they ever ruled it out. They just wanted the constant begging to stop. They probably didn't have enough time and resources to consider a port back then since they still had to develop the DLC.

@Late Then say that. All they had to do was say we are a small team and right now the Switch is not in our future. Maybe something can happen down the road but for now we are moving forward with dlc and other things. Thanks for your comments about a Switch version and please enjoy the game where you can. Instead they flip the middle finger and move on. Seems like a bridge just burned to me.

@Late They literally said "A Hat in Time is not coming to Nintendo Switch" and did a Photoshop edit of Pauline in Odyssey ranting about how they don't have enough manpower to do a port and other stuff.

Never mind that games like Outlast were ported in a manner of weeks and THAT also uses UE3.

They brought the hate onto themselves by acting the way they did honestly.

Yeah, they came across rather snooty. But it does look like a fun game so I'll prolyl pick it up.

@Spoony_Tech Humans are imperfect, and they do and say stupid things sometimes. I find this whole process of hanging people out to dry because they said something rude on social media in the past to be exhausting, frankly.

They're supporting a platform they weren't originally planning on supporting. Certainly don't get the game if it doesn't look interesting or you already own it elsewhere, but Nintendo owners ignoring it out of spite is only going to confirm to the devs that they were right to ignore the platform and its fanbase in the first place.

Bottom line: it's, by all accounts, a really fantastic 3D platformer, and the only way more games like this are going to come to the Switch is if we support the ones that do release. It's business, and we're voting with our dollars.

If they make good money on a Switch version, future games WILL come to the Switch alongside other platforms, which means more support for the system.

@Ralizah We are also voting with our dollars, that developers shouldn't treat the people they want to later buy their game, like absolute s***.

@Ralizah Its a catch 22, we dont buy they say we told you, we do buy then they eat crow but make money in the process. I for one will get it don't get me wrong but I wont pay top dollar for it. A sale down the road just like Yooka Laylee and they were far more kind.

@Knuckles-Fajita I dunno what to tell you. For me, life is too short to hold on to silly grudges. They lost their temper, posted snotty messages on twitter, and apologized later when they realized they messed up. It happens.

@Ralizah I'll word it like this.

You know a guy. He's an absolute ass to you for days and weeks at a time.

Then he turns up again months later and says hey, can I have $40?

Hell no.

@Ralizah I believe they only apologized because they saw the money they could make. Seems disingenuous to me.

And A Hat In Time becomes yet another game that I prematurely bought on another platform before the Switch announcement...

I'm half tempted to stop buying any multiplats until I'm 100% certain that they're not coming to Switch. But I'm so desperate to play Spyro... And what if Shenmue comes to Switch?

@Buizel I saw some Shenmue today and there's no reason the hd remakes can't run on the Switch. This seems like an odd choice not to have them there.

They aren't even remakes. Just upscaled Dreamcast games.

Though I can think of a reason. PS4 exclusivity in Japan.