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MercurySteam thinks Spacelords would be a good fit for Switch, but nothing is in the works right now
Raiders of the Broken Planet is getting a major overhaul. The game is going free-to-play, and it's getting renamed to Spacelords. Could the game be coming to Switch as well? Here's what Mercurysteam's Director Enric Álvarez had to say.
“We think Spacelords would especially fit into the Switch’s catalog. I think Switch players would go crazy with a game like this. Yet, you know what? We’re an independent, small developer. Spacelords is self-financed, and when we asked ourselves like a year ago if we would add the Switch to the platform roster, we thought “oh, that would be a great idea, but maybe it’s too much for us.
Imagine Spacelords’ development: four campaigns, a storyline with cutscenes, events, big bosses, etcetera, and different platforms to be working with. We simply couldn’t put a new platform on top of the others.
So yes, this game on Switch would be very interesting, but simply put we didn’t have the capacity to include it.”
To take things a step further, Álvarez said that a port to Switch would be a challenging undertaking for any company. It sounds like there is indeed interest in bringing the game to Switch, but quite a few hurdles to overcome before it happens.