Is it the prequel which was announced for mobile last month, possibly?
It's an excellent RPG, so would be good if more people can play it.
Might be the prequel, I'm down for whatever, either way.
Honestly, even though I own this on Switch, and I've always been a big supporter of Nintendo and their exclusives. I think 3rd party exclusives should really end. Games are so easy to port now and days, especially ones like this that are made in Unreal Engine (and other popular engines like Unity), developers should be looking to bring their games to every gamer they can reach and leave the console platform owners to make/produce their own exclusives.
Cool, would be a great way for more players to experience it. Wonder if this means it will still be a Switch console exclusive?
God bless. Now Sega, you know what to do.
If it comes I'll play it, but only if I can moderate the random battle rate.
Was the prequel even announced on PC ? Also why would Bamco publish a free to play game for SE ? I expect it to be the Switch game.
I can't imagine it's the prequel given they wouldn't be rating it this early right?
Not to mention if it was going to get a PC/browser version, it would have made sense to announce that alongside the mobile version.
Hopefully you can tone down the aggressive vignetting on PC.
This has to be the switch game for a simple reason: Namco Bandai is listed as publisher and they did publisher Octopath in Asia.
A F2P game won't need Namco Bandai as a publisher.
Bandai Namco is the publisher/distributor for select Square Enix games in some Southeast Asia/Asian countries.
For example, prior to selling back the IP to IO Interactive, Hitman was published by Bandai Namco in Asia instead of Square Enix themselves.
I didn't mind it. It fits with the artstyle.
Interesting. I didn't like Bravely Default all that much, but it's a welcome surprise.
I wonder if it will come purely to PC or PS4/XBO as well.
You can already choose a toned down version on Switch.
I mean the rating description makes it blatantly obvious it's the Switch game and not the mobile title.
amazing, the game is beautiful, and i'm sure will look fantastic on pc.
You can. It's a specific toggle in the Misc. menu.
It's Square Enix, 2019 for PC, 2020 for PS4 and 2021 for Xbox One.
Oh I heard of that. My reasoning is if it was a mobile f2p title, SE would likely publish it themselves. The fact that it's Bamco shows it might be more of a full fledged release.
is the Xbone still alive in 2021?
Nintendo is the publisher in the West, so it's possible that they have exclusivity there. As such, they could only release on other systems in Asia, I think. Maybe that's why they chose PC only? Since the Asian market is quite PC-oriented?
Sure, the current-gen doesn't immediately die when next-gen launches.
Asia is PC oriented but i highly doubt that they will lock EU and NA for the PC version.
For example, Sony was the publisher for Nioh in the west but the PC version was available ww digitally.
Oh damn, already own it on Switch so i won't buy it again, but more people playing it would be fine.
Im going to guess if this is real, that Nintendo don't want it on PS4/XO, but after a year could care less about PC & Square see some easy money, it's an UE4 game so making a PC version would be easy.
It's also possible that Nintendo has loosened their grip is going to allow PC versions like Sony does with games like Ni-Oh or Street Fighter V.
It's a great game, it would be good news that more people could play it.
If you mean Bayonetta 2, that won't happen. Complete different situation.
Did Nintendo fund the game or just published it in the west?
Nice! I will grab it if that happens.
A bit late there, my friend. Bayo 1 is already on PC.
Published it worldwide, Square self published in Japan.
Hopefully there'll be pc mods that tune down the overly done post-processing effects.
Really couldn't stand the game.
Might check out the PC release if modders can break it open a bit.
assuming nintendo's exclusivity was 1 year, we can expect this for july 2019.
Unreal Engine game? EGS exclusive, I'm calling it now.
Yeah, lots of SE games were PS4 exclusive for exactly 1 year before coming to PC. This has became their PC strategy for long.
I guess this was like Ni-Oh.
Console exclusivity and then PC version.
Just published in the west. It's a SE game in all manners.
The question is if Nintendo has the publishing rights on the west or if it's just for the Switch.
yeah that's what i feel like is going on. like other console exclusives coming to pc after a year. not sure if ps4/xbo ports are doable.
Pretty much. It's just tedious to play.
I doubt they only asked for one year exclusivity considering they published the game in the west and handled all the marketing.
They might have re-negotiated the terms allowing SE to bring the game earlier to other plattform for exclusivity on Octopath Travelers 2 ....but even then 1 year would be too short.
i'm only talking about a digital PC port, nintendo won't care about that a whole lot.
they gave sega permission to use their japanese dub of bayonetta in the steam version.
Like Nioh? Why would it be too short?
If SquareE supports PC like that, then why on Earth they didn't release Kingdom Hearts on PC yet?