Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora Probably Won't Come To Switch 2 Anytime Soon

dragging out this franchise was such a bad idea. It so desperately wants to be a long time cultural phenomenon, like Star Wars or something, but just doesn't have it. The first movie was a thing and it should have stayed there

With Ubisofts handling of current Switch 2 games, im rather optimistic they could put together a playable and enjoyable version on the system. Whether it sells well or not on the console, well, thats a whole other thing.

I have no doubts they could get it running well, I just wonder if there's enough interest there to make it worthwhile money wise. The game pretty much came and went, despite moderately positive opinions on it, with it mainly only being referenced after 2023 as a PC benchmark.

@Smithicus In the age of endless sequels, prequels and reboots, it was pretty obvious it couldn't just stay at one movie. But I entirely agree with you. It just doesn't scale well and it really didn't need to be anything bigger than just the first movie. I have zero interest in the follow-ups, knowing they can't live up to the grandness of the first entry and hearing from others who saw them that they just weren't really worth it.

Why? Who was asking for this? Pretty much no one. Not even the people on other consoles bought it, as it was completely ignored with middling reviews.

Like Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft only made it with the assumption they had a guarantee smash hit. Only to get a big dose of reality instead when there was no demand and the trailers made them appear dull.

If they can get a good port going later, I'd be interested.

@Pillowpants @Smithicus I disagree. I loved the first movie, of course, like you both say. I think I saw it 4 or 5 times in theaters, can't remember now. But I also really liked the sequel. And I'm looking forward to the third one. I do think the length of time after the original felt awkward. But we love "legacy sequels" now. Ha. Just offering my opinion. I'm not that familiar with this game.

@Pillowpants @Smithicus I think they've achieved an iconic status by sheer virtue of their visuals and world design, at least if the number of people still watching them is anything to go by. Even with the first one, I always felt like the story was mostly just an excuse to create a bunch of gorgeous CGI set pieces.

We see a similar attitude with a lot of video games, especially Nintendo's, and even some popular book series are held up more by clever writing and moment to moment events than a good overarching narrative, so I'd say you don't always need a great story to make a great piece of media.

If Ubisoft can make a decent port of it then great, but I, like most Switch 2 owners that I know (at least personally) don’t expect every massive open world game to work well on the hardware. I think most of us are just hoping that reasonably scalable games make their way over in a well optimized state.

Can’t wait to watch the third in the cinema in two days. I was really hoping for this game to come to Switch 2

@Anachronism I agree with your last sentiment on not needing a great story. Look at 300 for example. Eye candy is also nice to watch from time to time. I just found it quite unneccesary for Avatar to have sequels. But more power to people who are enjoying it! I personally can't get enough of Star Wars and love the movies, books and games, even though most of it is milked to death.

Avatar just didn't manage to "hook" me quite like other franchises did.

@Smithicus And yet Avatar 2 is the third highest grossing movie of all time.

@BTB20 yeah, but you know this series is tired and it's not going to have a great legacy status or continuity. Money is one thing, but Avatar already feels dead in the water and everyone is going to forget about these movies as soon as they release

Tell it to the box-office:
Avatar: $2,923,710,708
Way of Water: $ 2,343,477,301

They are the number 1 and 3 top grossing movies of all time, with only Avengers: Endgame popping in at #2. James Cameron also has Titanic at number 4, so he has three of the top four movies of all time. Cameron clearly knows what he's doing. You may not like it, but a LOT of people do.

As for this game, it looks decent, but nothing special. I'd probably get it for PC when it's on a deep discount, but I need a hardware upgrade to run it at the moment.

Dang. Was hoping to see this come to Switch 2. Seemed like a no-brainer to have it ready for Fire & Ash. No matter, its really neat to see the game continued to be worked on for what almost feels like a second launch