The_Liquid_Laser said:
I think they made some deal with Sony to make the recent FF games to be Playstation exclusive (or at least timed exclusive), because they weren't on XBox either. And some games get a deal from Sony to simply not be on Nintendo. I can't think of a good reason why Metaphor ReFantasio shouldn't have been on Switch except that Sony made some kind of deal to keep it off of a Nintendo platform. |
Highly unlikely considering Sony wasn't even allowed to state that the game was coming to its platform for quite some time or market it as well. The same happened with P3P,P4G and P3 Reload. MS paid for the marketing of those and even paid Atlus to not disclose additional platforms for quite some time. MS pushed Metaphor hard and that's your likely candidate for skipping Switch. That along with the long development time of the game and hardships that Atlus had with their previous game (Switch version of SMTV) it's easy to see why Atlus took the MS bag and concentrated dev time on platforms that could run their game better performance wise. It still doesn't run flawlessly on modern platforms either. Now they can just do late Switch port or even Switch 2 now and get the double dippers anyways.
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