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Veknoid_Outcast on 25 August 2017
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Kresnik said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:

I'm kind of leaning toward moreno on this one. Particularly since we sit on a sales website, and questioning the sales potential of a game on Vita versus Switch is totally fair game. Port-begging is annoying, and Vita trolling inexcusable, but I do think there's room here for a discussion about Switch inclusion/exclusion.

I mean, I'm kinda tired of the Switch port begging in every thread for a new game that doesn't have a Switch version announced, but with that aside, I'm more focused on the berating that it's coming to a platform that's already decided rather than the begging for it to come elsewhere aspect. "I don't want it to come to your favouite platform but I do want it to come to my favourite platform". Heck, since you made this post we've already had another one to add to the pile in this vein.

I can understand the sales aspect, but that's ignoring the biggest factor in this decision-making process anyway - Square-Enix already have data on Vita, because they released this game's predecessor on the platform 12 months ago. This game looks, largely, to be an asset flip that uses many of the pieces they put in place for AoM but put in a SoM shell, so I see no reason for it not to come to the platform based on those two factors?

And that's fine. Except, it's not fine for the majority of people it seems. If people need to ask for Switch, they need to ask for Switch (lord knows I'm guilty of this asking for Vita versions of games incessently in the past), but I don't ever remember shitting on the other platforms a game was coming to because it wasn't appearing where I wanted it.

But regardless, I feel like this is a bit of a moot point anyway because we've had 6 years of this kind of calling out of "This game looks great but I'll never play it on Vita it should come to xyz", it just seems to have shifted from being about exclusive titles to now being about multi-plats that are leaving out a specific SKU. Cycle will continue far into the future I'm sure, but that's kinda why we don't really have as many Vita fans round these parts as we used to :P

(Except me, but I rarely weather the storm outside of certain threads any more).

No, that's totally fair. If people want the game that badly, they need to suck it up and buy a PS4 or Vita, or just play on PC. Same goes for Monster Hunter World, or whatever game it happens to be.

Nintendo fans, bombarded over the years by demands for their company of choice to exit the hardware business and make games for other platforms, should know how irritating and insulting port-begging can be.