Have you considered making a switch port?

[DJDiceZ]

The game may benefit a lot from it, as it kind of undersold on PC. Also, a paid DLC that gives the game a decent ammount of new content would probably work well aswell.

[Matt.o]

We def have been contemplating Switch. Maybe one day!
Other than that, there is no dlc on the horizon right now :(
We are an incredibly small team and we cannot afford to stay on one single project for too much time

[DJDiceZ]

I see, i understand, it's good to know at least, thanks. I know there's people who'd much rather get a game like this on switch than PC. Oldschool collectathon 3D platformers are certainly bound to resonate more with switch players than PS or XBOX players. Hope your next endeavor succeeds!

[1singur]

Originally posted by Matt.o:

We def have been contemplating Switch. Maybe one day!
Other than that, there is no dlc on the horizon right now :(
We are an incredibly small team and we cannot afford to stay on one single project for too much time

There are 150M Switches out there, you'd be fools to ignore such a large install base.

[DJDiceZ]

Originally posted by 1singur:

Originally posted by Matt.o:

We def have been contemplating Switch. Maybe one day!
Other than that, there is no dlc on the horizon right now :(
We are an incredibly small team and we cannot afford to stay on one single project for too much time

There are 150M Switches out there, you'd be fools to ignore such a large install base.

Yeah sorry but that's not how this works. Of 150M switches, only an insignificant fraction of that would get the game. There are more than 130M steam users (not PC mind you, which would be counted in billions instead) but the best selling games of ALL time have only half of those sales. It can takes months to port the game to switch if not more. Studio actively loses money during that time. Making games is VERY costly and could easily cost them more than they would earn from thousands of sales, which is a much more realistic number than 150M.

Assuming everyone buys the game full price which would not happen in reality, they would not even earn a million. Hell, it might not even make it past 5 digits. Think a million is a lot? Think again. Steam takes a cut. Unity needs to be paid. The publisher usually takes a cut. The governement takes a cut. The employees need to be paid. Other software and such needs to be paid. And more. Each of those things can each easily cut down the profits by 10~30%.

Let's say for a year of work, that ends up earning you 10k to 20K if you have a bad year, are you gonna make do with that?

What this studio would actually earn, neither of us have any idea, it all depends on who they hire, how much they pay them, what tools and software they use, the cost of their technology, artistic direction, gameplay style, etc... Meaning only them can decide whether it's worth it or not, but what's for sure it's that it's not a "no brainer".

[Ikagura]

More platforms is always a nice boost.

[e Zinc]

Counterpoint: Shovel Knight sold really, really well on Switch compared to Steam. If they only released on Steam, Yacht Club Games might not exist.

I remember seeing the numbers on their blog post a while back.