No Plans For More Wolfenstein Switch Ports, But Panic Button Is "Totally" Up For It

Even if Bethesda did have plans for it, I doubt Panic Button would say it.

A double pack or reduce price point yes. I think three full price or nearly full price Wolfenstein ports might be pushing the market. I could accept Wolfenstein this time as a delayed release for port but the older ones couldn’t be £40.....

@Nunya It's a shame they are porting the wrong game.

I've got a feeling whatever it is Panic Button have been working on and will supposedly reveal next month won't be a Bethesda title.

I think Nintendo need to look into buying Panic Button. The work they are doing for the switch is incredible.

Nintendo switch dint have enough 3rd party support so someone hit the ‘panic button’ and BAM: quality, popular games!

@uhhhhhhhh quality yes, but popular? There wasn't that much buzz during its release and It didn't really perform that well sales wise. It also faded very quickly. I think its only on nintendo centered sites that this game is still talked about

@Enso That would be horrible. As an independent porting studio they can work with anyone. If they were acquired by Nintendo they would be much more constrained.

Is it up to who to decide that we'd see Wolfenstein 3D on the switch?

@Enso But what would Nintendo be buying? I have no idea what IP, if any, panic button has? Do they have any assets it would be worth Nintendo owning? Clearly they have some talented staff, but you can’t buy them

Can we have Prey next, please? We don't have anything else like that on Switch at the moment, while we're starting to be fairly well served for FPS titles.

I want to work for Panic Button. They seem ace!

Just port some fallout games.

Also, is that screenshot from the Switch version? The hell happened to that model's arm, it looks like someone went waaaaay overboard with simplifying the geometry and it looks like something from quake 1.

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@luke88 you can hire staff. Turns out, you absolutely CAN do that.

@Krull Dishonored 1 would be good too.

There you go the last great 3d game from Bethesda. They held their end if the bargain. Now it's mobile ports.

Day one buy for me eventually.

@Jeronan @Nunya I actually found TNC to be a more fun game overall than New Order and Old Blood so I'm glad they're porting this one. Now I'd absolutely be down for ports of those games, but I enjoyed Wolfenstein 2's gunplay much more. Dual wielding any two weapons is great, and I love the guns so much (dual maschinenpistole is perhaps one of my favorite FPS weapon combos). I do however wish they'd add a chapter select feature like those two games had. That was an extremely odd exclusion for TNC to not allow you to replay older chapters without making saves of each chapter.

@Razzy That screenshot is actually from The New Order which was built on Id Tech 5 and definitely didn't look as nice as the ones currently built on Id Tech 6. It also didn't help that The New Order was made for the PS3 and 360 so it was probably being held back by those systems.

Absolutely, day one purchase!

@Stocksy You're absolutely right and I wouldn't be surprised if that's why they're not doing it - not being sure whether they could price it high enough to make a good enough profit back off how much porting it cost them.

And have two more games with massive mandatory downloads?

Yeah, no thanks. I won't be buying The New Colossus for that reason, sadly. Maybe when it drops to $20 or so, but I won't be giving them more than that. I was going to buy two copies at full price otherwise (the second being the censored German version for funzies).

It's a real shame, because I wanted both this and L.A. Noire so badly but they keep pulling this crap on us. My 200GB card is fast filling up and I barely have anything on it. Certain patches already take up unacceptable amounts of space. I won't have mandatory downloads further contributing to that.

@OorWullie Hopefully it's Bio-Mutant.

@diwdiws 🙄. Humor , how does it work? Let’s break it down, they ported rocket league, which has been insanely popular. And doom has been covered quite a bit before switch was out, so yeah I’d say it was popular. Perhaps not as popular as something like Fortnite but popular enough to be a AAA game getting a sequel?

The New Order/The Old Blood ran on an older version of the idTech engine, so Panic Button would have to port that engine over to the Switch just to port a 2014 game over. Not worth the effort IMO.

@ballistic90 indeed, so Nintendo should hire some of panic button’s staff? It’s a fair point. 😂

Not the same as buying panic button though, is it? And staff can always leave. I agree with your point, but maybe you missed mine 😝

@luke88 they could buy Panic Button to ensure they have a team they can contract out for porting projects. The purpose of buying the company would be so they don't cut ties with Nintendo, and to give them more resources.

I imagine Bethesda wants to see if it is worth porting the other content over. If this Wolfenstein sells well, they will port the other titles, if not, then probably not.

As for Bethesda, I would rather Fallout 3 or Fallout New Vegas.

@ballistic90 Nintendo should buy a company to ensure it has a team to handle ports? Staff port games, staff come and go. If Nintendo needs staff it can hire them. Buy a company that has no significant tangible assets to ensure it doesn’t cut ties with you? What exactly would Nintendo miss out on if Panic Button ‘cut ties with them?’ More resources? Do you mean more staff, more office space, more IP? You don’t need to buy a company to obtain the first two, on the contrary it would be an absurd waste of money to do so. Maybe Panic Button has IP I’m not aware of, or something else I’m not aware of. If so, make me aware and I could agree with you.

I agree that the staff at Panic Button are obviously talented, but the points I’ve paraphrased above are pretty confused.

I don’t mean to grill you about this, but it becomes tiresome seeing ‘Nintendo should buy X company,’ beneath various articles, written by people who clearly don’t have the faintest clue what they’re talking about.

Yesyesyes more Wolfenstein's please. Old Blood is my personal favorite.

@Razzy "The hell happened to that model's arm, it looks like someone went waaaaay overboard with simplifying the geometry and it looks like something from quake 1."

That arm looks like it's from Goldeneye 😅

All I know is the games they have ported are just as good as their next gen counterparts. I just hope they continue to release great games like all devs have been in switch, panic button included.