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Civilization VI was ported to the Switch last year, and it was a surprisingly great port - the controls and UI were extremely well adapted, and the performance was great. Civilization VI went on to do very well on the Switch; which leads me to my question of, why in the world is it not on PS4 and Xbox One yet? The control and UI adjustments are already made, and a port to PS4 and Xbox One is surely easier than one to Switch was, I presume. If the Switch port's success is any indication, there is an audience for these games on consoles. So what gives?

On a similar note, given the Switch's built in audience for turn based games, as the success of Wargroove, Valkyria Chronicles 4 (relative to all other platforms anyway), Fire Emblem (inevitably), or Civ itself shows, why is XCOM/2 not on the Switch in any capacity? I can see 2 being very taxing on the system, but Enemy Unknown/Within are an obvious shout (they were even on Vita!). So why not?

Why is 2K/Firaxis keeping its series split up across consoles like this?
 

Imran

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I had heard about XCOM on Switch a while back. Maybe its continued development was contingent on L.A. Noire and Civilization sales. Could still be on the way, could be canned, but 2K is certainly aware of it.
 

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Civilization VI was ported to the Switch last year, and it was a surprisingly great port - the controls and UI were extremely well adapted, and the performance was great. Civilization VI went on to do very well on the Switch; which leads me to my question of, why in the world is it not on PS4 and Xbox One yet? The control and UI adjustments are already made, and a port to PS4 and Xbox One is surely easier than one to Switch was, I presume. If the Switch port's success is any indication, there is an audience for these games on consoles. So what gives?

On a similar note, given the Switch's built in audience for turn based games, as the success of Wargroove, Valkyria Chronicles 4 (relative to all other platforms anyway), Fire Emblem (inevitably), or Civ itself shows, why is XCOM/2 not on the Switch in any capacity? I can see 2 being very taxing on the system, but Enemy Unknown/Within are an obvious shout (they were even on Vita!). So why not?

Why is 2K/Firaxis keeping its series split up across consoles like this?

XCOM is interesting since Kingdom Battle did well and it's a lite version of that battle system.
 

Youngfossil

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Isnt it mostly Touch screen on switch? They have a tablet version, they probably just didi that.
 

cw_sasuke

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X-Com is likely happening - they might want to deliver something a bit more special than just straight up ports because of the sales potential on Switch.

Civ not on other consoles is weird - maybe they dont think there is that big of market on those consoles unless its priced very low.
 

Damn Silly

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XCOM 2 on Switch I could see being difficult because that thing can really chug on XB1 and PS4.

No idea about Civ 6 the other way though.
 

Hu3

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How xcom preforms on ps4 I don't think I'll even run on switch. It's just bad, such a good game. And I believe they haven't figured out how to acomodate the controller for civilization for ps4/Xbox
 
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XCOM 2 on Switch I could see being difficult because that thing can really chug on XB1 and PS4.

No idea about Civ 6 the other way though.
It could just be the first game, it doesn't have to be XCOM 2 to be fair

How xcom preforms on ps4 I don't think I'll even run on switch. It's just bad, such a good game. And I believe they haven't figured out how to acomodate the controller for civilization for ps4/Xbox
The controls were already adapted with the Switch port.
 

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Please review our rules on port begging. Let's not have threads for every third party game not on x platform.
 
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