UK Charts: Split Fiction's Strong Start Has Us Praying For A Switch 2 Port

The Sims 4: Businesses & Hobbies was on number 3. 😊

Really impressive for a co-op only game that didn't even release on Switch.

@sanderev 0 reason

Reason 1 - it has 2 player ONLINE
Reason 2 - COUCH co-op

Also Luigis Mansion 3 is a Switch EXCLUSIVE and it's the best 2 player couch co-op game my wife and I have played. That isn't a reason for Split Fiction to be on Switch 2, but it's certainly a precedent.

Maybe just tell people your account got hacked. 😉

@sanderev

You are aware the previous game, It Takes Two, is on Switch and sold quite well on the system?

Seeing Suikoden arrive in 4th has me hopeful that Konami sees how much the series means to so many people. Obviously I pre-ordered... though... I kind of wish I hadn't. The "Day One Edition" has a butt-ugly "sticker" on it, telling me of the pre-order bonus I have no intention of using. Kind of wish I had the "Regular" edition instead.

@sanderev I mean, they did the exactly same thing with their previous game (It Takes Two), and that came out for the Switch.

@sanderev Whether you like it or not, the Switch is a hybrid (handheld and tv console).

The PS5 has been out for 4.5 years and Split Fiction is the first game to make me wish I owned the console. I loved the PS4 but the releases for PS5 have been beyond disappointing, so I can't justify buying a PS5 for this one game, even though I desperately want to play it.

@sanderev
Hey, I played The Sims 4 PS4 on my PS5 machine, bought some important Expansion packs first.
I like the stuffs from The Sims 4 despite I hate the idea of tons of DLC with non cheap price.

@sanderev on a handheld console, indeed. On a hybrid console famous for offering plentiful (if not omnipresent) couch multiplayer out the box for the first time in many years? Well...😏

I mean, that's still a pretty strong start for an expensive set of PS1 ports.

@sketchturner Honestly between Split Fiction and Astro Bot a PS5 might be worth it now. I just got one like a month ago and Astro Bot alone made me happy with the purchase.

@Ultimapunch Yeah, I've played some of Astrobot and it is really cool. But seems a bit one and done? In any case, $700+ to play only 2 great games I care about is hard to justify.

@sanderev I think the game has online co op as well but I don't know if that also makes the screen split screen or not.

Launch title for sure. If it wasn't in the planned Nintendo Direct for April, it will be now.

Hopefully switch 2 will have 16 gb of ram, so this kind of games to run as good as on deck.

@sanderev And yet It Takes Two sells like hot cakes on Switch.

@UltimateOtaku91 Yes it works online with only one bought copy. The other person who doesn't own the game can download a special version and connect with the one who has a copy of the game.

I've heard this game is one of the best-optimized games running on Unreal Engine 5, so I hope they're able to squeeze enough out of a dedicated Switch 2 build to manage the 60fps the Steam Deck version can't fully manage despite running above 40fps and often into the 50s. Granted, it'd be nice in general if the Switch 2 was equipped with VRR, since my brief experience with 40fps has suggested it feels a lot closer to 60fps than one might expect, but Nintendo opting for a 120Hz screen seems very unlikely, haha.

The game is obviously coming to Switch 2 if you watch recent interviews with Josef Fares, whenever people ask him about NS2 he's being very cheeky about it.

@sanderev Never said LM3 was exclusive, but it can be played that way. So can a bunch of other games. How many people regularly play the Mario Party games single player vs multi-player? Just b/c you don't have any one to play games with doesn't make it 0 reason for a game to be on a console. I don't play first person shooters, so first person shooters have 0 reason to exist. Same logic.