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Yooka-Laylee Gets Nintendo Switch Release Date

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Backers rejoice! Almost seven months after other systems, Playtonic's crowd funded collect-a-thon Yooka-Laylee finally drops for Nintendo Switch on the 14th of December. It comes boasting polish and optimisation for play on the go, as well as support for playing with a single Joy-Con across each of its eight multiplayer minigames for an optimal fun to budget ratio. This release is exclusively digital, with plans for a Switch physical edition unknown at this time.

Will you be picking this up when it launches?

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The price has been revealed to be £34.99 on the UK eShop, in line with the retail price on Steam.

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i couldnt care less about john tron deal or whatever, like it matter afew jeberish on a game seriously, for me what matters is a phisical release and no phisical no buy, i will probably get the ps4 version since it has a phisical release.
 
Kinda late for this to release for the Switch at this point... not to burst anyone's bubble though ;)
 
It's all about opinions, and it looks like the situation that happened ultimately became a divider for how to handle it.

Playtonics removes the voice actor, gets hate for it.

Gears for Breakfast keeps the voice actor, gets hate for it.

Looks like there's no winning, just like there's no winning the argument that rapidly developed right now.
 
Xzi said:
This is nothing new, it's been going on with Facebook since it was founded. You post dumb shit publicly, and you get shitcanned. You keep your dumb shit/dumb opinions private, and you likely won't be punished for them. It's really quite simple when it comes down to it. Making JonTron's failures in this situation all the more obvious.

You're free to have your opinions here, I just think there are better reasons for not buying the game. Calling for a boycott is absurd, and it's not like it would have any effect at this point anyway.
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That's interesting, because I distinctly remember a wave of refund requests immediately following the decision before the game was even out on store shelves, which leads me to believe that people cared a little bit more than you give them credit for. You can be okay with a 1984-style world where your political alignment or opinions somehow influence your career despite not having anything to do with the job, I'm not. PT is free to engage in such practices, I'm free to condemn them, that's all there is to it, I don't know why this conversation is still on-going.
 
Jonna said:
It's all about opinions, and it looks like the situation that happened ultimately became a divider for how to handle it.

Playtonics removes the voice actor, gets hate for it.

Gears for Breakfast keeps the voice actor, gets hate for it.

Looks like there's no winning, just like there's no winning the argument that rapidly developed right now.
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From who though. There is going to be hate regardless.

Playtonics and Gears are getting hate but from different people.
The people that are hating on Playtonics are not the same people hating Gears.
And vice versa.

This is like any other thing. Musicians get hate for changing music styles. Its not like haters are being inconsistent and hate no matter what the person does. Typically. But their are some out there that do. But they are minor.
 
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Playtonic just keeps on digging. I mean how the hell do they wake up one day and decide to release the game on the Switch when they canned it on the Wii U, after it was basically promised for a Wii U release. Not to mention the game is ass.
I mean what are the spec differences between the WiiU and Switch? More ram? Yet their excuse for no Wii U version was technical limitations.
 
I really liked this on my PS4 playthrough, was a fun game. I hope it turns a profit and they can make a sequel.
 
SG854 said:
From who though. There is going to be hate regardless.

Playtonics and Gears are getting hate but from different people.
The people that are hating on Playtonics are not the same people hating Gears.
And vice versa.

This is like any other thing. Musicians get hate for changing music styles. Its not like haters are being inconsistent and hate no matter what the person does. Typically. But their are some out there that do. But they are minor.
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That's exactly it, you've got it. That's why there's no winning, unfortunately, and why any argument about this goes no where.
 
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oxitran said:
Playtonic just keeps on digging. I mean how the hell do they wake up one day and decide to release the game on the Switch when they canned it on the Wii U, after it was basically promised for a Wii U release. Not to mention the game is ass.
I mean what are the spec differences between the WiiU and Switch? More ram? Yet their excuse for no Wii U version was technical limitations.
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your kidding right? it has more ram, more cpu and more gpu power basicaly the switch is like a 1.5 more powerful wiiu.
 
There was not really a particular good reason to release on the Wii U when the manufacturer and company themselves were on the brink of abandoning it at the point they thought about releasing it on there.

I actually wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo themselves secretly told developers "hold on, we've got something better in the works."
 
oxitran said:
Playtonic just keeps on digging. I mean how the hell do they wake up one day and decide to release the game on the Switch when they canned it on the Wii U, after it was basically promised for a Wii U release. Not to mention the game is ass.
I mean what are the spec differences between the WiiU and Switch? More ram? Yet their excuse for no Wii U version was technical limitations.
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well the main reason is the unity engine runs like poop on wiiu
 
Jonna said:
It's all about opinions, and it looks like the situation that happened ultimately became a divider for how to handle it.

Playtonics removes the voice actor, gets hate for it.

Gears for Breakfast keeps the voice actor, gets hate for it.

Looks like there's no winning, just like there's no winning the argument that rapidly developed right now.
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It all depends on which side you fall on, the people who actually play the games or the people who never had any intention of playing games and just looking for stuff to complain about (ie: sjw's and liberal media)
Fact of the matter is the actual consumers just don't care, though they did get angry with playtonics (which may or may not have affected sales? with all the mixed to negative reviews its hard to tell)
The consumer would rather just keep politics out of the games and not have the dev's even bother with it, its probably why wolfenstien II was such a sales flop
 
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Joe88 said:
It all depends on which side you fall on, the people who actually play the games or the people who never had any intention of playing games and just looking for stuff to complain about (ie: sjw's and liberal media)
Fact of the matter is the actual consumers just don't care, though they did get angry with playtonics (which may or may not have affected sales? with all the mixed to negative reviews its hard to tell)
The consumer would rather just keep politics out of the games and not have the dev's even bother with it, its probably why wolfenstien II was such a sales flop
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I could see this. Good post!
 
I was gonna get it, but then after the JonTron's controversy and them removing Jon's voice from the game, I gave up on getting this game, regarding where it gets its inspiration from.
 

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