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But I'll give my thoughts regardless. This is their very first foray into full 3D graphics, and the Switch hardware is really weak, optimizing the game to run well on the 7 year old chipset (Tegra X1) is going to take a lot of time and resources, which they can't spare.
Like c'mon dude, don't be an armchair industry analyst when you don't know ♥♥♥♥.
they started development of this game years ago so they should have planned for situations like this.
i would ask them on twitter but Aquaplus don't have an english account.
i agree about aquaplus having access to more data then the public do, but that dosent mean theyve made the right decision. it's more likely these japanese devs can sometimes be very stubborn with their platform loyalities and act aoccordingly. just like atlus refusing to port mainline persona games to consoles even though the deand is there. there are japanese people on youtube/twitter asking about a switch version too.
source?
did they give a reason as to why theyere not putting games on the switch? not releasing a game on switch isnt evidence by itself.
Aquaplus is almost exclusively a Sony developer at the moment; the only game they've released for the Switch was Dokapon UP!, which was actually developed by Sting, not directly by Aquaplus. The decision to make a PC port was likely driven by their desire to expand in the West (since their COO has explicitly said that on Twitter), based on the success that the main three games in the series have seen on Steam.
Every development decision is made based on a risk-reward analysis, and they probably decided it wasn't worth trying to scale down their engine to work on low-powered hardware that they have zero experience developing for. In the end, the reason is always money.
Just switch to a platform that has the game.
i do agree that they did make a decision and doing a PC port day one is definitely the right move for them.
but considering how the switch is selling, they've really missed the boat not releasing any titles on it aside from the Dokapon game, not just for Utawarerumono. I can't see any issue with the Switch not being able to run the earlier trilogy of Utawarere games, White Album 2 etc.
it would help them expand in the west as well, cause westerners love dat switch collecting.
Port it to PC =/= Port it to Switch
There is more labor costs, cause switch CPU uses Arm architecture, besides PC uses X86 which uses also on PS4/5
For such small devoloper as Aqaplus this can be unreasonably.
And there's also can be a lot of resons, why they don't do it.
yep, and aquaplus did already release one game (Dokapon UP) for the Switch so it's possibly not a technical issue, they could have just made a business decision relating to the sales of that (although that is purely speculation, and even if they did, it's not a VN/RPG so that would be silly).
Plus sooner or later they'll have to start supporting it properly, especially because the Switch is the main console for VNs now. So even if Monochrome Mobius or the Uta series is never ported to it, if they ever want to release more VNs to consoles (especially titles liek To Heart 2 / White Album 2), they really only have one viable platform for that. And given the Japanese fanbase want to see more games like those, it's only a matter of time before they're forced to stop milking Uta.