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Rumor: Ubisoft having some trouble bringing Steep to Switch
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TreasureHunterG
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At this point it's pointless to release this port. Ubisoft would be wise to cancel it. It was an obvious test/DOA game to be used as excuse to pull off support if Switch flopped.
Karspankey
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Fox Mulder
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I totally forgot about this game after they showed it at a E3.
KawabataSan
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This highlights one of the big issues with Switch getting AAA like games.
bobbychalkers
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of all their currently known games, Steep is the most baffling choice for the Switch. I figured Either of the South Park games would have been announced before Steep.
Yeah it's going to be super hard to convert a mostly online only game to an mostly offline console.
Yep. It is the same reason I think Overwatch won't come.
Godzilla's Left Toe
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Seriously South Park made way more sense then Steep.
Rocket League is coming to Switch(with crossplay, no less) so I'm not sure what is leading you all to have these sorts of thoughts.
exmachina64
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But I thought the Switch was really powerful.
SatoAilDarko
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A game that's heavily based on being online coming to a hybrid was always weird. It also never really made a splash at all.
If you're going through the effort to try to port the game why not the South Park games on even attempt a Watch Dogs 2 port.
The sales potential of those seem much greater than a Steep port.
If you're going through the effort to try to port the game why not the South Park games on even attempt a Watch Dogs 2 port.
The sales potential of those seem much greater than a Steep port.
It's significantly less powerful than the Xbone in several aspects, so games that don't have very good performance on that machine (like Steep being 900p30) are going to be an even harder bet for the switch. It's a matter of how much the developers are willing to downgrade, if they can at all, and whether the end result will still be palatable enough to make enough money for the extra porting effort.
TwistedFreeze
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I think that's what most people are wondering. Nothing against the game but I don't think many people cared much for it when it came out and, by the time it may come out, hardly anyone will care. Would have made more sense to bring over the Southpark games or something
Steep actually performed "better than expected" according to a Ubisoft press released. However, I'm not sure if "better than expected" means profitable i.e. Ubisoft could have had expected to be unprofitable and it pulled off very slight profiablity.
RoboGeorgeForeman
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I feel about the same. I didn't even know this game was a thing until this past E3, and even after finding out about it, I'm struggling to care. Maybe there's a market for it somehwere.
Dr. Black Jack
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Hey, they already soldiered through someone literally dying for this shit game, have faith! Gotta recoup that dev money no matter what the cost!
It is for a handheld.
TwistedFreeze
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Perhaps there could be if they can make it appeal to people who liked SSX or 1080? I remember some people, myself included, enjoying SSX at least
purseowner
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Can we at least get a release date for probably the easiest port ever - Rayman Legends
Jaded Alyx
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And yet it's getting an MMORPG...
Godzilla's Left Toe
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Probably Nintendo's next Direct.
panama chief
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Damn. This could've been cool. boarder games are on decline. :/
purseowner
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Ancel's too busy with Beyond Good & Evil 2 to polish off another Legends port.
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Astral Dog
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Probably both
HollowCentral
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Until the announcement of the expansion at E3, I completely forgot that it had come out. Had to actually look it up during the press conference.
That probably shows how little I care about this game.
That probably shows how little I care about this game.
I have played a bunch of Steep and its one of my favourite games this gen. I would also definitely buy a Switch version (as i indicated in the survey that came with the Alpha/Beta which is likely the reason Steep was being considered for a port in the first place.)
I highly doubt its a hardware issue since steep is relitively simple and Watch Dogs ran pretty well on the Wii U.
If i had to take a guess at the issue its probably this. Nintendo/Ubisoft likely want players to be able to play co operatively in a local network similar to what they have shown on commercials for Splatoon and Mario Kart. That would mean that Steep's development team would have to take this always online game and make it availiable offline and have the Switch's CPU maintain many of the network features currently done by UBI servers while also trying to render the game.
That seems a tough ask given that Steep is pushing current gen CPUs pretty hard to maintain its draw distances.
I highly doubt its a hardware issue since steep is relitively simple and Watch Dogs ran pretty well on the Wii U.
If i had to take a guess at the issue its probably this. Nintendo/Ubisoft likely want players to be able to play co operatively in a local network similar to what they have shown on commercials for Splatoon and Mario Kart. That would mean that Steep's development team would have to take this always online game and make it availiable offline and have the Switch's CPU maintain many of the network features currently done by UBI servers while also trying to render the game.
That seems a tough ask given that Steep is pushing current gen CPUs pretty hard to maintain its draw distances.
Infernal Monkey
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Yeah, no surprise that porting a game which demands a constant internet connection even in single player to a portable system hit a brick wall.
Pretty sure that I mentioned on GAF prior to this game even being announced to exist, that it had been in development and then cancelled, not due to technical problems, but due to it flopping on the other platforms and Ubi trying to cut its losses. The fact that it ever got announced baffled me...as far as I know from my contact it was never put back into development after it was shelved, unless they farmed it off to some port factory in Bangaladesh or something.
HollowCentral
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YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Strange. Thanks for the info.
Jaded Alyx
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Come on man. How?
17 Seconds
Banned
you didn't ask for it, so nobody did!
The only part specifically mentioned is online features though. So the problem may not be the system itself.
Mega Man's Electric Sheep
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Switch gets snowed again. I am snow board of waiting for this game. Maybe an avalanche of tweets to Ubi will cause a flurry of renewed interest in this port from whatever business mogul runs Ubisoft. Otherwise, icy ubisoft's switch reputation going downhill fast.They're on thin ice with me. Alpine over this game if the port takes a powder.
Jaded Alyx
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Oh?
DeuceGamer
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Disn't DQX get announced for Japan? No reason an online only game can't make it on Switch.
Edit: That said I wasn't particularly excited for this so I'm not gonna be upset if its cancelled. Wonder what else Ubisoft will bring to Switch. I'm sure they want a presence on the system.
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