Spongebob SquarePants: The Patrick Star Game has now launched across seven platforms, stretching across everything from the Nintendo Switch to the most powerful PC rigs. As a quirky physics sandbox game, developer PHL Collective had a huge challenge to get the game running perfectly on its lowest-powered platform. In an interview with VideoGamer, The Patrick Star Game’s production director Chris Rose urged developers to not “abandon” the Nintendo Switch in the face of more powerful hardware.
With a massive install base and surprisingly powerful tech, the director sees new games coming until 2030. Keep supporting Switch While the Nintendo Switch 2 is seemingly on the way in the near future, Outright Games is still aiming to bring as many titles as possible to Nintendo’s 2017 handheld. Despite its hardware being trounced by smartphones, the huge user base means publishers will continue supporting the hardware as long as possible.
“My free advice to anyone who wants to make a kid’s game is young kids, especially if they have older siblings, will get hand-me-downs off the last generation of console,” Rose said. “There are going to be 143 million hand-me-downs out there in about a year, two years’ time..
. That is 143 million potential customers for you. Yeah, don’t be so quick to abandon Switch or Xbox One.
” With over 100 million PS4s, 60 million Xbox Ones and the huge install base of the Switch, there’s countless gamers that won’t be upgrading to expensi.
