R-Type Final 2 Kickstarter Campaign Will Include Nintendo Switch Version

Nice! R-Type is always on my radar.

I'm glad about the Switch version, but to be perfectly honest, they are wasting their time with the Xbox and PC versions.

I hope it's good and it comes physical too.

This must be the Final Fantasy of Shmups! (What does that word mean in videogaming?) The Switch version better not be a ridiculous stretch goal. it makes me feel like I am being taken advantage of.

YEEeessSSSSS!

I have r type final on ps2 it’s not great hope this is an improvement it’s nice looking but gameplay wise not a patch on the original wish Konami would do a gradius collection and include gradius v

@GrailUK Hopefully they'll have specific pledges for each platform so they can gauge interest or at least let people indicate up front which platform they'll probably want the game on.

In fact, if this is like most crowd funded games, it will probably be really late and anyone who wanted it on PS4 and Xbox One will have to settle for it being released on the PS5 and Xbox Two.

I never feel good about indie studios doing multiplat releases

@BulkSlash Ha! Not even thought about that lol.

Prepare for R-Type Near Final: Last Battle But Three.

I'm down to pledge, and I never pledge on kickstarter

At last the wait is over. Day 1 from me.

Yes will look forward to this.

Great news I have all the Rtype games, including Rtype Leo. Legendary series of games can’t wait for Rtype final 2.

Very nice!

I loved RType Final on the PS2, and I would love to pick this sequel up for the Switch. Now I want an HD remaster of RType Final 1 for the Switch.

Now I hope that makes Konami want to make actual games again and make a Gradius VI!

@EmirParkreiner I wouldn't mind getting a PC version, hoping that they do what Sega did with Yakuza Zero and Yakuza Kiwami1/2 where you can play those games in 144hz mode.

...not that you really need that in a Yakuza game, but it would be nice to play more shmups in that frequency. Silky-smooth 140+ frames per second with a really high response rate.

@EmirParkreiner I agree with XBOX, but PC has been the home for shmups until the very recent genre renaissance on Switch.

I wonder if they'll even localize and release it here if it happens? Still waiting on Disaster Report 4 to appear, which at this point I doubt will be happening.

@BulkSlash They held a poll on twitter asking about platforms at the beginning of the month, Switch had 44% of the vote with PS4/PC at 19% and Xbox at 18% from 3,422 votes. I don't know what crowdfunding site they're going to use but on the announcement linked above it says the campaign will last about a week.

@Spiders
PC was a home for the games, but a graveyard for the developers.
Treasure ported the 360 Version of Ikaruga to Steam, yet didn't bother porting 360 Radiant Silvergun and were in horrible condition afterwards.
Cave brought some of their games and now Cave is as good as dead. The ex-Cave developers at Tanoshimasu (Aka to Blue) actually talked about how PC support was a commercial failure.
Moss had to cripple the PC version of Caladrius with DRM to fight the rampant piracy in the platform. When that lead to complaints, they crippled Raiden V with stupid online features that are supposed to work as "stealth DRM".

New shmups like R-Type Final 2 or high quality ports like what M2STG does are only profitable if there is an audience that is willing to pay reasonable prices for it. The Steam audience always waits for a crazy "70% Off" sale in those cases.

Simple, barebones ports/emulations of older shmups (like Hamster's Arcade Archives series or most or Zerodiv's Psikyo games on Switch) don't sell at all on PC because PC users can get "similar" quality from emulating pirated ROMs for free.