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Are any of the indie titles releasing on the Switch right now older than 2016 besides Shovel Knight?
Are any of the indie titles releasing on the Switch right now older than 2016 besides Shovel Knight?
Seeing Dan Adelman call his former employer "douches" is certainly not what I expected to read when entering this thread.
Yeah he said it was up to Nintendo when they announced Multiverse edition for the other platforms alsoNintendo are being morons, it seems.
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Isn't the Binding of Isaac Rebirth from a few years back? Cave Story is also set to release in a few months and that's *much* older than the rest.
Are any of the indie titles releasing on the Switch right now older than 2016 besides Shovel Knight?
I'd argue the fact that Nicalis was a pretty big Nintendo publisher to begin with is why those older games are getting through the process easier than Axiom Verge is.
World of Goo, Human Resource Machine, and Little Inferno are.
They definitely should be on Switch, but calling Nintendo douches probably means they're not getting on Switch.
Isn't the Binding of Isaac Rebirth from a few years back? Cave Story is also set to release in a few months and that's *much* older than the rest.
I have a hard time believing a company would make a business decision on something so personal, but perhaps that's the case. Certainly can't help.
And they got a jukebox mode and simultaneous touch screen and pointer functionality for their ports.
Afterbirth Plus came out this year. I think Cave Story has new stuff, too. Come to think of it, most of the older games in the launch window have new stuff, too, like the co-op in the 2D Boy games and the Specter Knight campaign in Shovel Knight. I hope older games start showing up on the system without developers having to add new stuff. While I don't really like Axiom Verge, it would be a huge shame if the Switch misses out on a bunch of games because Nintendo goes down the super dumb Xbox One indie parity path from a few years ago.
Afterbirth Plus came out this year. I think Cave Story has new stuff, too. Come to think of it, most of the older games in the launch window have new stuff, too, like the co-op in the 2D Boy games and the Specter Knight campaign in Shovel Knight. I hope older games start showing up on the system without developers having to add new stuff. While I don't really like Axiom Verge, it would be a huge shame if the Switch misses out on a bunch of games because Nintendo goes down the super dumb Xbox One indie parity path from a few years ago.
Sounds like this has more to do with Dan than anything else...
How?Sounds like this has more to do with Dan than anything else...
I have a hard time believing a company would make a business decision on something so personal, but perhaps that's the case. Certainly can't help.
Definitely seems like an odd decision. The more games, the better.
Isn't it more to do with Nintendo not prioritizing self publishers when it comes to issuing dev kits for switch?
Stupid as it creates bad blood.
Yes, the more games there are, the better. But if we get ports with no new content or improvement of any sort, then there is little incentive to buy the game again when priced higher than all other versions of the game.
The devs saying they could have had it for launch, though, definitely looks bad.
Ah yes, Vroom in the Night Sky is surely pushing lots of Switch sales...
Ah yes, Vroom in the Night Sky is surely pushing lots of Switch sales...
The devs saying they could have had it for launch, though, definitely looks bad.
The problem is it's not consistent at all. Yacht Club Games is both a developer and a publisher, for example. They published their own game in the US, but I think Nintendo published it in JP, so maybe that's why it's different? Who knows, but it's dumb.
Based on the statement I'm guessing they don't have a dev kit, but if they had one prior to launch they would have had the game ready for then. If the entire matter comes down to them simply not having a dev kit yet then this seems like a lot of unnecessary drama.
Potentially, but Spectre Knight timed exclusivity probably helped. If Nintendo are looking for things to sell the console, then exclusive stuff would be important to them.
If axiom verge is nothing but a port then at present it's not a priority for then, which is a Shame as the game is a priority for me.
Things like enter the gungeon are comparable to axiom verge imo, but the former has the benefit of a biggish publisher behind it, who Nintendo will have gotten dev kits to quickly.
It took them a year AFTER LAUNCH on PS4 to get the game out on Vita. I don't buy for one minute that this could have been ready at launch, dev kits or not.
Their words regarding development time are pretty empty.
Vita version is cross-buy with PS4 thoughTo be fair most games on the Vita don't sell very well so you can't surprised they dragged their feet porting it.
To be fair most games on the Vita don't sell very well so you can't surprised they dragged their feet porting it.
How?
It took them a year AFTER LAUNCH on PS4 to get the game out on Vita. I don't buy for one minute that this could have been ready at launch, dev kits or not.
Their words regarding development time are pretty empty.
A PS4 -> Vita port is exponentially more difficult than a Vita -> Switch port would be. Specifically, most PS4 games (even a "retro" game like Axiom Verge) would need extensive optimization & possible engine changes to run well on the Vita. However, if your game runs well on the Vita, getting it to run well on a drastically more powerful platform like the Switch would be relatively easy.
Perhaps Adelman is the problem, maybe he pissed the wrong people off when he left, calling them douches on twitter aint exactly going to help
It took them a year AFTER LAUNCH on PS4 to get the game out on Vita. I don't buy for one minute that this could have been ready at launch, dev kits or not.
Their words regarding development time are pretty empty.
Perhaps Adelman is the problem, maybe he pissed the wrong people off when he left, calling them douches on twitter aint exactly going to help