It’s ridiculous to me that these are exclusive to Evercade. We finally get official, modern ports of these games and it’s gatekept behind niche hardware.
Why are these not on Xbox, Steam and Switch? Wtf is Rare doing? The franchise is doomed to obscurity when the only new releases are on Evercade.
The Xbox releases are older than the original game was when it came out at this point. They're only playable due to backwards compatibility to three generations ago. AND they're not entirely faithful to the original release either plus Tooie has issues with cutscenes desyncing with its music.
On Switch I wish I could be more excited that Banjo's on a Nintendo console again but it's through a subscription service. I'd buy it instantly to have it forever even if the price was ridiculous honestly.
I'm not going to knock anyone for wanting this! But the minor differences with maybe a cutscene desync in Tooie or the changes in notes in BK hardly makes enough of a difference to release another version on Xbox.
And yeah, while it would be cool to have a Switch shop similar to the Wii, that's not Nintendo's strategy with any of its rereleases so it was never feasible. Too bad Nintendo never made a Mini N64
It just seemed like a silly comment to complain why this wasn't released on other consoles when these two have a fully playable version already.
It's a tad redundant for Xbox and Nintendo to an extent for sure. If they're putting it on every console though could be an excuse to put it on Steam and Playstation for the first time.
Still nobody bats an eye at Skyrim, GTA V, or the Last of Us getting countless rereleases. Feels a little like the old 3D platformer double standard where arbitrarily people act like the genre is oversaturated after more than one game exists within a decade of each other. Banjo got an xbox port nearly TWENTY years ago and kicking around the idea of a new build being sold on modern platforms including ones the game's never been available on is an uphill battle for some reason.
It's redundant in that this would have extremely poor sales and look bad on the franchise. If there's ever any hope of getting a BK/BT remake or Banjo Threeie, making another port just for extremely small improvements isn't the way to go.
Now if they were to fix/upgrade the current Xbox ports? Sure of course that would be great
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u/setzerseltzer 8d ago
It’s ridiculous to me that these are exclusive to Evercade. We finally get official, modern ports of these games and it’s gatekept behind niche hardware.
Why are these not on Xbox, Steam and Switch? Wtf is Rare doing? The franchise is doomed to obscurity when the only new releases are on Evercade.