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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Yooka-Laylee launches April 11th, Wii U version cancelled, most likely coming to Switch

Volterra_90 on 14 December 2016

Well, then, time to move my version and sell WiiU. It's been a fun ride, but I don't have any reason now to keep it.



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Meelow on 14 December 2016

I understand why some people would be mad, it's a few months before launch and we are now just hearing the game is cancelled on Wii U. However for me personally I am really happy they are moving the focus to Nintendo Switch, I am perfectly fine with moving my Wii U pledge to Switch.



0D0 on 14 December 2016

The thing makes sense but, "unforeseen technical issues" is insulting.



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Eagle367 on 14 December 2016
KingofTrolls said:
Eagle367 said:
 At least have the balls to admit that you don't think you will profit from the Wii u version so you're moving to Switch instead of "unforseen technical issues". That has got to be the lamest developer excuse in all of history

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curl-6 on 14 December 2016
Goodnightmoon said:
curl-6 said:

Nintendo will probably use the same excuse when they cancel the Wii U version of Breath of the Wild.

That is not gonna happen

I sincerely wish you were right, but at this point, I think it's almost guaranteed that it will be.



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Goodnightmoon on 15 December 2016
curl-6 said:
Goodnightmoon said:

That is not gonna happen

I sincerely wish you were right, but at this point, I think it's almost guaranteed that it will be.

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GuyDuke on 15 December 2016
Meelow said:
I understand why some people would be mad, it's a few months before launch and we are now just hearing the game is cancelled on Wii U. However for me personally I am really happy they are moving the focus to Nintendo Switch, I am perfectly fine with moving my Wii U pledge to Switch.

Is it really really confirmed that this will be on Switch? Because their tweet said they were ''working closely'' with Nintendo to bring the game to Switch, but that doesn't sound like a total confirmation to me, and I'm worried as fuck.



Goodnightmoon on 15 December 2016
guiduc said:
Meelow said:
I understand why some people would be mad, it's a few months before launch and we are now just hearing the game is cancelled on Wii U. However for me personally I am really happy they are moving the focus to Nintendo Switch, I am perfectly fine with moving my Wii U pledge to Switch.

Is it really really confirmed that this will be on Switch? Because their tweet said they were ''working closely'' with Nintendo to bring the game to Switch, but that doesn't sound like a total confirmation to me, and I'm worried as fuck.

One thing is almost for sure, Nintendo fans will be the last fanbase able to play it (Nintendo fans with only Nintendo devices, that's it) and that's pretty fucked up, they were so interested on Nintendo fans, they said... yeah. Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.




Barkley on 15 December 2016

guiduc said:

Is it really really confirmed that this will be on Switch? Because their tweet said they were ''working closely'' with Nintendo to bring the game to Switch, but that doesn't sound like a total confirmation to me, and I'm worried as fuck.

Here's the exact wording from their twitter.

"Playtonic is working closely with Nintendo to look to bring Yooka-Laylee to Nintendo Switch"

So no it's not directly 100% confirmed, though if they are looking at it I'd be very surprised if it didn't happen. Though I think it's quite likely the Switch version will launch later than other versions if they're not directly confirming it will be on the console and instead saying that their "looking to bring" it to Switch then that definitley suggets it's early days.



WoodenPints on 15 December 2016
guiduc said:
Meelow said:
I understand why some people would be mad, it's a few months before launch and we are now just hearing the game is cancelled on Wii U. However for me personally I am really happy they are moving the focus to Nintendo Switch, I am perfectly fine with moving my Wii U pledge to Switch.

Is it really really confirmed that this will be on Switch? Because their tweet said they were ''working closely'' with Nintendo to bring the game to Switch, but that doesn't sound like a total confirmation to me, and I'm worried as fuck.

They say:

"We can however confirm the exciting news that we are now working very closely with Nintendo to look to bring Yooka-Laylee to the upcoming Nintendo Switch. We’re looking forward to exploring the opportunity and will have more details to share early next year. 

We’d like to apologise to those affected by this development and offer all Wii U backers the opportunity to move their pledge free-of-charge to any of the versions launching on April 11th (PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mac or Linux) or upgrade to the Nintendo Switch version when we announce further details in 2017. "

So without directly confirming it 100% I'd say offering Wii U backers an upgrade to the Switch version is a 100% confirmation that it is coming to the Switch.