Redout dev shares status update on release date
Posted on April 15, 2017 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch
Wondering when Redout will be heading to Switch? It may not be too long until we receive a final date. Developer 34BigThings wrote in a blog post that an announcement should be made “soon”.
Going into specifics as to why it’s taken so long, 34BigThings explained that the initial PC release required a great amount of resources. This resulted in “less allocated time, more assets, regression bugs, more optimisation work” on consoles. In the end, “PC gamers got more stuff early, console gamers will get a polished game with the same content.”
34BigThings wrote:
“So when? WHEN?”
You know we’ve been cautious in announcing release dates, after that initial period when we kept promising “next month”. We are maintaining the same meter of judgment here, so we’ll hold announcements until we’re 100% certain – which by the way will happen soon™.
“Yeah yeah but it’s been forever, are you stuck or something?”
Definitely not!
Those who played Redout on PC know how dedicated we were in supporting the game, adding new content and releasing whatever we could achieve in reasonable time – cockpit view, a whole new world, soundtrack, artbook, and more will come. All this had a little impact on console porting: less allocated time, more assets, regression bugs, more optimisation work. But that’s a tradeoff we accepted and if we could o back, we would do exactly the same thing. PC gamers got more stuff early, console gamers will get a polished game with the same content. Everyone wins.
“Why can you preorder the game if you don’t even have a launch date?”
That’s right, you can already preorder physical copies of Redout for Xbox One, PS4 and Switch.
That’s because for 66% of these platforms we are wrapping up the final testing phase, so we are confident we can move on to printing and shipping in a few weeks – again, we’re not announcing a date here. Suffice to say, we are not too far from printing those physical copies.
