2K Says It's Eager To Release More Games On The Nintendo Switch

Please reconsider releasing PGA 2K21 on physical not digital only.

Let’s go 2k! You can do it!

Not sure what else they have other than the Mafia games.

I think they're bringing pretty much everything they have lol. Appart from Civilization, Borderlands (we miss the third one, though), Bioshock and XCOM, I can't think of anything else they've made. Maybe the Mafia Trilogy remastered...

Off topic: Hey Nintendolife, will you review Journey to the Savage Planet?? I'm REALLY curious about how that game finished being, and how the port is. It sure does have some Metroid vibes I always love...

Borderlands 3,Mafia Games,The Bureau Xcom,Spec Ops,The Darkness are remaining games.But probably they gonna announce mafia trilogy.

Wouldn’t mind Duke Nukem Forever on Switch. It wasn’t the best, but I had some decent fun.

Just pre-ordered Bioshock Collection, not sure why but I never played these games, looking forward to it now.

I'll be eager to keep on ignoring them for as long as they continue cheaping out on the physical release.

Red dead series, gta games. They must dont like money to not have those on Switch

I actually think The Darkness would be a good fit for Switch. Likely a reboot, but keep the cell shading of the second game, but more of the tone of the first.

@dewokkel agreed. Not worth the 10 year wait, but as a bargain bin game, it was great.

Yeah I like these guys.

Their a lot better than EA.

I'll gladly support these guys over EA. Recently got NBA 2K20 for £3 on the eShop. A 95% discount.

Game runs perfectly, full version of the game, sure there are micro transactions in the game, but I can easily ignore them and they are not shoved down my throat.

Yeah give me more 2K games anyday.

Physical over digital but at the right price, I'll take em digital too.

Battleborn, Duke Nukem and maybe another WWE game would be a great start. Bioshock and Borderlands will do very well on the Switch.

@OldMcGroin Nice, you’re in for a great game. Especially 1 is very good. Have fun man!
I’ve pre-ordered too. In contrary to a lot of people, I think that FPS games work great on Switch. The controls are fine, although I must admit that I’m using the hori splitpad pro.

Mafia would've been nice. I'm up for more 2K on Switch.

Take that EA, Ubisoft, Activision. You turds. 💩

@FargusPelagius very good game. Never got around playing part 2. I have it on steam, but now I’m gonna wait. Maybe 2k Will release them for switch

@jaymacx 2K doesn't own Rockstar, rather Take-Two owns both companies (also Private Division of Outer Worlds) so I'd imagine that that has something to do with why some of those companies are more quick to release Switch games than others? Though maybe that's the common thread because they both release half-assed physical versions

Isn’t this the same company that released that steaming pile of crap known as WWE 2K18?

Never forget and never again.

This company would need to pay me to play one of their crappy games again.

Some compilations titles would be good. I've got them all on Steam but I cant be arsed with PC gaming lately.

Narrowing the choice to 2K themselves, I can only base my picks on Wikipedia again, with limited knowledge of what they can still publish or not (they even have Oblivion to their name, but I doubt that applies now). The most obvious stuff is Mafia franchise, and I'm also partial towards Sid Meier's Pirates - the game proved to be a blast even on NES, and the later incarnations like the PSP one only spiced the recipe further. What else... maybe Battleborn, or the original Prey- wait, chances are Bethesda now owns that, too.

@Liam_Doolan Great, thank you guys! Keep up with the good work!

@SuperWeird You're missing on Civilization VI, probably the best strategy game on Switch.

Borderlands 3 can barely run on PS4 and Xbox One, so don't expect that.
They could port GTA 5 and all 3 Mafia games.
Manhunt 1+2 is 2K too. Manhunt 2 is on Wii.

@Ventilator Borderlands 3 can barely run on PS4 and Xbox One, so don't expect that. Nice bait.

I wish they would just go the full price and use a bigger cart for release. I would gladly pay $60 for any of these collections if all or most were on the cart. I'm still getting them all just not right away. No way I can justify spending $150 on games when some will just sit there till I get to them. They almost said we know you will pick up one of these and maybe the others down the road on a sale. If I'm not picking them up in a months time I'm for sure waiting on a sale.

@JokerCK It's a very heavy game on current consoles. Nice bait.

@SuperWeird that game was broken but it was developed by Visual Concepts in the last 6 months, VC never worked on any WWE game and they were brought in to try and get the game ready.

I believe there was some sort of contract dispute that went down with the previous developers.

2k published the game and it was simply unfixable. There's no excuses for them.

While that is a notable bad example, 2k have put many games on the Switch that work very well, their the full version of the games and 2k are not shafting Nintendo like EA. Their games are always discounted.

and let's just be realistic, we're not going to get sports games from anywhere else.

I'll take 2ks.

Spec Ops: The Line. One of the best games I've ever played. I'd definitely buy it again to play it on the Switch.

I’ll be sure to be cordial here, please speak for yourself. I couldn’t disagree more. I’m a physical collector to the core and want a physical case and cartridge at all times and also understand some games can only be squeezed in so much on a Switch cartridge for technical reasons and totally understand if we’re talking a Bioshock/Borderlands 3-Game Collection on top of that.

Now I’ll disregard the cordial, some of you guys/gals amaze me on these forums always not understanding it’s not possible to put 3 games AND their DLC all on a little cartridge. Sighs. @Zuljaras

Your half physical, half digital "physical" releases make me want to puke, 2K. That said (if you can fit them on a cartridge with no download) Switch ports for Prey and Spec Ops: The Line would be great.

Haha. I enjoyed that to but never thought it was that good. Nolan North kept making me think of Nathan Drake the whole time. I’ll definitely get it if released on Switch. Good call. @DevlinMandrake

@CTmatic - the physical release for BioShock would be less aggrevating if at least one of the three games on the cartridge were functional without a required download. Something Capcom did reasonably well with the RE4-RE6 and DMC1-DMC3 triple packs.

Civilization Revolutions should be a no-brainer for people that are intimidated by the mainline series. Those games are kid-friendly and low-key fun. Mafia ports would work too.

What I’d REALLY want though is a remaster (or even a port) of the classic Sid Meier games. Pirates still really holds up, and while I never tried the flight games, that would be cool too.

Either way - kind of love 2K bringing Switch love. It’s a bummer that the price is so different across platforms for the new collections, but I bet they run deals on them regularly if you can wait. Even so, those are still totally worth $50 to catch up on Bioshock or Borderlands or XCOM.

2K: Get a physical release of XCOM 2 Collection up for pre-order in the UK. No physical release planned for UK, EU? Also bring over XCOM: ENEMY WITHIN while you’re at it.

Ultimately this comment doesn’t mean much. Actions speak louder than words, so the fact that they’re releasing 3 games next week tells you more about their feelings than anything they say.

Though it would have been nice if they splurged for the 32GB carts that Witcher did. But, still something is better than nothing. It’s just the physical games are basically full downloads anyway, so I don’t really see the point.

@Ventilator Borderlands 3 is just poorly optimised as far as I can tell. We've had plenty of impossible ports, and it's not the most impressive game visually, it's hardly RDR2.

Speaking of Red Dead...

@OldMcGroin if you like FPS, you are going to love them.
The first one is the best in my opinion followed by the third one.
I preorder it myself 😉

@Richnj Neither Borderlands 3 or RDR 2 is optimized games, and they will never be. I know, because i have both games on Xbox One X.
RDR 2 is 120.GB big too. Try scaling that down to 25.GB or something without that much quality loss.

Borderlands 3 is only 65.GB or so including 10.GB of DLC so far, and the 2 upcoming is probably over 10.GB combined.

Was Duke Nukem Forever published through 2K?

I know 3D realms, and Gearbox developed it.

Yeah, great news, 2K. Now here's hoping that they'll also release more of their games COMPLETELY on the cartridge, instead of codes in a box with bloated downloads.

If a small company like CD Projekt Red can manage to do that, then surely 2K should be able to do it as well.

@CTmatic I don't think it is so much us not understanding, but seeing other companies being able to do it as well, so at least in my case, I'm just wondering why they wouldn't want to put in the effort, and just go for the cheap route. And that's NOT just because of any supposed "Switch tax" or cartridge tax, because if the Witcher 3 can come completely on cartridge, then so can any of 2K's games. The Metro games are another brilliant example of it being perfectly possible.

Put them on two cartridges per box, for all I care. I'd gladly pay for that, but not for a trilogy with only one game partially on the cartridge, and the other 2,5 parts of it as a download.

Sandisk would be thrilled if 2K released more Switch games.

You know what else hasn't been a one-time thing with 2K? Physical copy download requirements. If I wanted Borderlands Legendary Collection, I'd pretty much need a new microSD card to fit the 42GB download on it if I didn't want to archive anything.

They have a few niche titles that could be effectively resurrected on switch. Evolve and The Darkness come to mind. I also read that 2k has upwards of 70 games in development from now till 2025 so who knows maybe they will flesh out their catalogue.

Even though the part cart part download thing is weird I still like they support the system. People may crap on the basketball game for mircotransactions but it. Is mostly the same game as the other systems. Not like EA that just sticks a new number on the fifa game and release it again. That is just awful.

I don't care what 2K or everybody else SAY. I care for what the DO.

Cool in theory but I would need a 2TB memory card to keep up with the way they release these games.

Ok, great. But again "support" should be both. Old stuff in the series and the NEW game.

• If you release old XCOM1 release XCOM: Chimera Squad.
• If you release old Borderlands 1 release Borderlands 3

It Can't just be stuff like Bioshock I have gotten for free 2 times now. Time for less talk and show some effort on Switch.

@Ventilator Shame there isn't a Red Dead Redemption 1 that is already smaller in size and power requirements, but is also a fantastic game that would much welcomed on the Switch /s

Put them on actual cartridges and I'll buy them.

First off, physical copy full size SD cards, 2k, you swindlers will not afford an actual physical copy. We can point to Witcher 3 complete edition, not a single dl, and then look back to shake or wag appendages at you.

Second, yes the new 2k games def can go on the switch just like the old and if they can get NBA 2k on the Switch, all is possible for them. Except Civ 5, bc Civ 4 can just barely do it (although what a conscious stealing game on Switch), all 2k properties should be on the device.

Thirdly, 2k is part of the Take-Two Interactive Holding family (it's Rockstar's little sister), and it's probably Take-Two deciding what and when little sister can do widdle waddle with the Switch.

Mafia Remastered collection would be in scope from 2k, sure... But, let's get big brother on The Switch, and froward this convo onto RDR (og, but my god rdr2 I wld play down rez to GTA graphics if it was possible), GTA 5, San Andreas remaster (aspect ratio remaster), and a re-release of Niko and GTA 4 (bc it was a power house of amazing physics and story telling). Also, demand, in full, Agent to finally be released as a Switch Exclusive (teehee).

Go on, everyone demand. This is covidspring for the Switch. All is possible.

@the_beaver
Journey Planet is worth it even if you tidy it up in 6 hrs. It's entirely a good game and a great product. On the Switch, it's style and humor, have come home.

@CTMatic
Re Spec-Ops: The Line. The gameplay was servicable but nothing spectacular. For me it was the story though. It was a brilliant exploration of Conrad's Heart of Darkness and in order to complete the game and find out what happened to Kurtz you had to be prepared to morally impair yourself. That and the fantastic soundtrack were enough to hook me and the game didn't disappoint at all. It's the only game I've played that actually simulates moral choices well, in that there's no in-game reward for whatever choice you make, and at certain points you have to either commit some heinous actions, or turn the game off and walk away.

@siavm

NBA 2knon switch had been better. You had more everything in every mode (like it used to before microtransction takeover) on the switch. Now however, more and more leans on micro transactions in all modes (you know like having to buy training camps you can't earn, WTF) like Station versions (there isn't another home console, no, shh, there isn't). And they have exasperated Muplayer with pay bloat and as well have had no cogent idea of what to do w GM mode, and really destroyed it w 2220 (18 an 19 GM Modes were pretty interesting Jackson Baldwin for life and go Raleigh Abolitionist!). And it should be full cartridge. The lie that it is a physical copy is wrong and the lacks file make up and compression means you deal w a game that takes an entire SD card from you. And this is a form of process and the effort wld only be a rerun for 2k and Take-Two on their investment w the switch. But whatever 2k is around to cash in and help to downplay titles that were once percieved contenders to Rockstar's body of work, and take two buys them and gifts them to 2k, to make highly produced but soulless versions of fledgling franchises. And the rest becomes history and a 2k product

@DevlinMandrake @PikaPhantom
What is this game. Sounds awesome. Understand Conrad...psssssh

@TheNewButler

Ha they rushed for covid spring. Why didn't journey to Savage planet go ahead and provide a release date end of January instead saying they really want to but dont know about the resources (that product is great, 505 shld have had the confidence), because these games were slated and migrated they were just fiddle faddling with a release. And they all hit the covid button. Catherine and Outerworlds probably had those bogus 5 and 8 month later dates concreted before covid.

How about showing off gameplay for the games that are launching in less than a week? Being so quiet makes it seem like those collections run very poorly on the Switch.

@Richnj

The of should be on switch.
And honestly, I fully believe take two and rockstar can get rdr2 onto tegra soc. They're compression and visual "allusion" masters. They don't build ground up new code if they don't have to. They bring existing legacy code together and shapeshift it to appear how they please. The gloss of visual fidelity, is something we've only seen from them in their last two titles. Everything else, was comprised of low fi so comprehensively we bought into their illusions.

Can we get some games that aren’t a decade old?

@Agramonte you’re one of the few on here that wants something other than 10 year old games

@ThanosReXXX

Ntdo doesn't require the QC on these cartridges. Back in the diznow, ntdy used sell the proper size to the developer then distribute that for them (evil mad genius by ntdo but that's what 3rd parties disserved and the quality structure that gave them the opportunity to get their poor all around service to the industry under control). Since years and years have gone by, Ntdo utilized the tree house system and other QC models to keep 3rd parties honest. The wiiu however saw third parties effectively boycott ntdo (and that's what they did despite how the outlets framed it). It was just a weak point for ntdo, and the 3rd parties CLD point to the wiiu and say that architecture can get way to complex and you got all these QC restrictions, and we can't just use generic dev kids to port on it. And so came the switch. On one side a consumer godsend and realization of what the wiiu had really been, a soft disclosure. On there other side, the switch was a parlay to developers. So, they can shovel Ware as they please. And, they get to pick their cartridge size and don't have to follow Ntdo's compression requirements. You can see this in the storage size and save of some 3 Rd parties like Bethesda and projectredjet and ntdo first party offerings. Most all other major 3rd party producers have bombastic file sizes.

In this move to bring more and younger third parties to it's platform, ntdo is subsidizing for these third parties. they'll pay the difference on the size of the cartridge, if quality will be impacted. This translates into smaller companies that get the nodge to go physical from ntdo. Also means larger 3rd parties like 2k either don't get that same subsidy so they spite Ntdo by fronting as much distribution cost to their web systems as possible or rather they choose to still produce on a smaller cartridge and ntdo allows and stipends them to do so, just to have their boxes on the physical shelf in a Ntdo brand.

@Richnj RDR 1 is no problem on Switch, especially not 360 version which were alot more optimized than PS3 version, and looks better than PS3 version too.
RDR 1 can be as it is, and just increase resolution. The game is only 7.4.GB big, excluding the Undead DLC. RDR 1 got a free Xbox One X upgrade only 2+ years ago to run at 4K.

@Kaleid-Stone What the heck happened to your spell checker?

But all kidding aside, I've honestly never heard of that story of Nintendo subsidizing smaller companies. All I know is that CDPR have funded their release themselves, and voluntarily opted to put the entire game on the cartridge.

Mind you: not saying that what you say isn't true, it's just that this is new information to me.

@Kaleid-Stone
In effect 2k does both. They produce in cartridge just bc Ntdo wants them to. But 2k defrays cost (or maybe daddy TT picks for em), choosing the smaller cartridge and then still using Ntdo's servers to pump out their games. But really Ntdo is going that far and wiping 2k's bottom that much, for you to have a selection on your switch of a legacy of great games. So we'd probably have to ask Ntdo to out out actual physical copies bc 2k and TT are on no way interested in fan or consumer value.

@ThanosReXXX
Well not subsidizing. But saying we'll take this percentage cost on the publishing side. And I can't point you to who, when, and where, in this gen, factually. But that is a legacy practice of ntdo. They bully large 3rd parties and they will incentivize upstarts they believe will turnout unique on their platform. When you see an unplanned physical release of an indygame that was a hit on the ntdostore, in a rapid fire time span, ntdo helped to defray cost to get that on their branded shelf space. But I do not mean they buy into the indie companies, or make payments to them.

@ThanosReXXX
And absolutely CDPRJ paid their way. I just know the program exist internally between Ntdo and independent developers, and I'm sure it extends to whoever Ntdo needs to keep around. 2k prob doesn't get that from Ntdo, nor most AAA or the majority. 2k probably buys the smallest card and then fronts the game over the network to squelch a penny.

if they're so eager then how come we still have no gameplay for borderlands, bioshock or xcom? i wonder. i'd bet they are bad ports.

Outside of the Mafia trilogy what games have we yet to receive from them?

@Kaleid-Stone Well, yeah, the bullying of parties, as such, is a legacy thing, more beholden to the 8 and 16 bit era, but in the generations after that, Nintendo became a LOT more lenient over time.

Which was good in some ways, but not so good in other ways, because it basically meant the true end of the Nintendo Seal of Quality, and the beginning of shovelware (points finger to the Wii).

Personally, I'm just not sure that this is what's going on here now. It looks more like Nintendo willing to let go of some of their usual "demands", in order to get more third party support for their current platform. Not a bad thing in and of itself, but it does kind of feel like certain third parties are capitalizing on this, taking the absolute cheapest route, and getting the biggest returns on investment, seeing as plenty of people will still buy these games regardless.

Me, I'd prefer to get the whole game on a cartridge, for future preservation. And whatever doesn't get released physically on the Switch or whatever successor they'll release, I'll get on my Xbox One or Series X...

XCOM 1? I'm still going to get 2 regardless, but as someone who hasn't played the original, I'd love to see that ported over so that I can get the full story.

@Agramonte "It Can't just be stuff...I have gotten..."

Your ability to think that your experience either represents anybody else's or is the only one that matters is utterly astounding. Many people here haven't played all these games; many people haven't had the chance. For them, this is quality support worth supporting in turn. And not only are their situations valid, since they outnumber you, they're arguably more valid to a revenue maximizing corporation than yours.

I must be the only person in the world that wants a port of Sid Meier’s Pirates (not just the PC original, but the remake that was on Wii/XBox/PC/PS and PSP).

It would be nice to finally see a GTA game hit a Nintendo console! And Having GTA 4 & 5 portable would be huge for many! Hell i betcha even GTA III, Vice City or San Andreas remastered on Switch would sell like hot cakes! 😆

@OldMcGroin I loved all 3! Enjoy!!!

What about that Bioshock exclusive for PS Vita that was never meant to be? I would welcome it on Switch

@jaymacx these wouldnt run well. you can see saints row the third on handheld mode as reference.

So why didn’t Switch get the Mafia Trilogy PS4, Xbox & PC are getting?

@JimmySpades I clearly wrote "should be both" so I had already included that group.

"Revenue maximizing corporation" would target every player they can. and They would "maximize revenue" from all their games. Not just the old ones. So even by your logic... makes more sense to release both the old and new.

@the_beaver I grabbed it without a second's hesitation and it is fantastic. Do yourself a favour

@dewokkel Ohhh yes please!!

I'd love to enjoy some xcom on the go but I'm not supporting 8gb carts with 20ishgb downloads.

All I can think of that I actually want from 2K, is a good, working Switch version of WWE 2K. If not, someone make a good AEW or NJPW game for Switch.

@TheNewButler Thanks for the heads up.
Pre-ordered.
Thank you 2K. Keep em coming.

R.I.P wallet 2020

I got Bioshock on PSN plus for free but I'm always on the Switch so I'll most likely buy it. Stupid, but the rare occasion I take it off the dock itll be a welcome

@OldMcGroin

I’m incredibly jealous! Playing the BioShock games for the first time was an amazing experience that I wish I could have again.

Your in for a treat, I hope you enjoy them.

@JSDude1

I’d buy it!

While not owned by 2K, I’d love the Monkey Island remakes too.

If the Switch is going to be getting even more games for maybe a span of 10 years maybe (highly logical), I wonder what the size of the future MicroSD Card would be? 10,000 GB? 20,000, if we keep the Switch till 2030?

@Kang81 While you’re on Monkey Island, it would be killer to have classic NES and C64 versions of Maniac Mansion as well as Day of the Tentical on Switch.

Would love to play gta 5 on my switch. Hope it comes out soon.