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Igarashi talks to IGN about the uncertain future of Bloodstained's Wii U version
Coming from an IGN interview with Igarashi...
“Yeah, it's a very complicated problem. The reality is this: As timelines move on, certain pieces of hardware become irrelevant. Sometimes new pieces of hardware come out that make you think about what is the right strategy. And as a creator, usually you want to make stuff for the new hardware. That's the reality.”
However, this was a game that was backed by people, and we made promises to listen to them. They're the people that gave us life so to speak. Any sort of change that we do or are considering that goes outside the scope of the promises we've made must be done with lots of explanation, must be done with lots of care, and must be done with lots of back and forth with them to see what options we have. We must listen to them at the end of the day, and we have made promises.
Unfortunately, some of those don't make as much sense anymore as they did before, and that's also reality. So you're in a very difficult position, and at the end of the day, if you're going to go in one certain direction, you want to make sure that you have support from them But so far we've, I think, been incredibly transparent through all the things that have happened with our backers, and they have been very supportive. So I'm hoping that if there is going to be a difficult decision some day, and we don't know, that we're able to have that conversation. If they say they don't get it, well that's where we're at. And if they say they do get it, well then, we'll be able to do things that are maybe more interesting. We'll see.
With the game's delay into 2018, I really can't complain about how Igarashi is addressing the situation. I'm sure there will be some refunds requested if the dev team can't make a Wii U release happen. I think we're all hoping that the title gets moved over to NX and backers have the option to swap out their Wii U version for the NX option. That's all just speculation for now, but I'm very happy to see Igarashi being so transparent about it all.