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vivster on 17 January 2017

So they used this little fact to advertise their game because they don't actually have to say anything new about it. Clever.



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m_csquare on 17 January 2017
shikamaru317 said:
Ka-pi96 said:

You were saying?

It actually managed to sell over 600k on Vita, which really isn't bad for a system that flopped in the west. Alot of those sales were bundles too, so you could actually say that it was a killer app for Vita, it moved more Vita's in the west the year it released than any other Vita game did.

It couldv sold a lot more if it didnt run like sht



Qwark on 17 January 2017

I am starting to doubt that unprecedented third party support.



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UltimateUnknown on 17 January 2017

Well that probably sets the precedent for 3rd party support on the Switch in the future if it wasn't already looking bleak before. I guess nothing's really changed.



 

Mnementh on 17 January 2017
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
"We were talking to Nintendo, but that stopped for some reason. They have other priorities."

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It's ok, Borderlands kind of sucks anyways. Can't wait till Nintendo denies an actually good game, though. We all know it's coming.

Borderlands is OK. And Nintendo: why?



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bonzobanana on 17 January 2017
dahuman said:
bonzobanana said:
If its a multi-format game it would be madness to get on Switch. They'll probably cut out a large section just so they can fit it on the smallest cartridge and would likely cost more than even the playstation pro version because of cartridge prices and be truly hopeless in comparison. It's like paying out for a track day experience then going around the track in a mobility chair. If you want to have the full fat experience you need decent hardware and so it doesn't need to be on Switch and if it was it wouldn't sell anyway.

No, people just forgot how compression works these days because they are lazy fucks. Also, Borderlands 2 GOTY edition was less than 12GB on disc and less than 10GB download on PC so, stop smoking crack.

If I'm on crack I dread to think what you are smoking. Do you not have a clue that such a low performance console will have to cut out some of the content or reduce quality for much of the the game anyway, texture quality etc. There will be natural shrinkage anyway. It would probably end up on a 8GB/64Gb cartridge especially as third party games previously for cartridge games tended to go for smaller sizes of cartridges to reduce upfront costs and their stock investment in cartridges. Whatever it would be a hopeless version which only a small number of people would buy especially like here in the UK where the cartrige prices are £60 suggested retail and the far superior versions will enter retail well below that and be discounted quite quickly. It's simply not commercially realistic. 

We seem to be going through the same process as wii u where people where expecting wii u ports of big third party games but there simply was no commercial demand for them.  There has never been any evidence or track record of people paying high prices for mobile games and lets face it android and apple have if anything pushed prices well down causing Nintendo problems for even 3DS cartridge pricing but Switch is well above those.

So many reasons why the Switch is not a good format for this game.



LudicrousSpeed on 17 January 2017
Ka-pi96 said:
LudicrousSpeed said:
Their loss. Borderlands on the go would be a killer app for many, myself included.

You were saying?

A shit port on a system no one gave a shit about, I think it sold very well all things considered.



betacon on 17 January 2017
Hiku said:
rjason12 said:

It looks like nintendo stopped talking to them.

Yeah, but my takeaway from this is that there needs to be some tricky negotiations for games like this. I don't think that's the case on PS4 and XBO.
Which leads me to believe it has to do with optimisation issues, and the developer asking for compensation from Nintendo?

I can't blame Nintendo for passing on that. It's just a shame that they are once again in that position where this has become an issue.

If that is the situation you can blame Nintendo for putting them self in a position where theyre offering a underpowered system.



HollyGamer on 17 January 2017

I think it will come to Switch, but they need to cut every graphic here and there, and will make the game look like borderland 2 on 7th gen.



rjason12 on 17 January 2017
betacon said:
Hiku said:

Yeah, but my takeaway from this is that there needs to be some tricky negotiations for games like this. I don't think that's the case on PS4 and XBO.
Which leads me to believe it has to do with optimisation issues, and the developer asking for compensation from Nintendo?

I can't blame Nintendo for passing on that. It's just a shame that they are once again in that position where this has become an issue.

If that is the situation you can blame Nintendo for putting them self in a position where theyre offering a underpowered system.

Except the way it was worded made it seem like Nintendo stopped talking to them,?not that the system isn't powerful enough.