By Sickr on October 9, 2024

In a new interview with Video Gamer, PHL Collective, the company behind the recently released The Patrick Star Game, has committed to releasing games on the original Nintendo Switch system. The Patrick Star Game's production director Chris Rose said in the interview that he believes they will support the system until 2028, or perhaps even longer, and that he urges smaller developers not to completely abandon the platform for the Switch 2 due next year. That's because Nintendo's console, which released in March 2017, will continue to have a large install base and it has the target audience for the company's colourful games.

"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. 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."

"So make sure you support the ones that are out there and still actively engaged with, because not everyone wants to go out and buy the brand new [console] for a younger child. But we know that there are loads of kids gonna be playing their switches for at least another four or five years, if not longer. So that's why you have to support these consoles."

"I would be amazed if we're still not supporting Switch come like 2028, for example, maybe even longer than that," the director explained. "If someone said to me in 2030, we need this to come out and switch, it wouldn't shock me. Again, there's 140 plus million of them out there."

"It's a bit like PS2, right? The PS2 support went on for a very long time. they would just keep porting football games onto PS2 'cause there were just so many of them there, and they would keep selling them. So it's one of those things where if someone said to me in 2030, 'by the way, this needs to support Switch', I wouldn't be surprised… it's such a juggernaut of a machine and I wouldn't even be surprised if it ends up breaking 200 million units by then."

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