Pyre dev on why it hasn’t ported the game to Switch
Posted on February 28, 2019 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch eShop
Not too long ago, Supergiant Games brought over a couple of its older games to Switch. Bastion and Transistor can both be found on the eShop. Pyre, however, is missing in action. Why is that?
Supergiant writer and designer Greg Kasavin explained the situation with USgamer. The team appreciates the fan interest in Pyre on Switch, but a port isn’t a simple task. Supergiant is instead putting all of its effort into Hades, the company’s next true game.
Kasavin stated:
“Pyre on the Switch is something we really appreciate the interest in. It’s one of those things where it would be lovely if we could just wave a magic wand and have that be a thing but it just, and I would never excuse make around the technical challenges around it, but it would already be done if it were simple.”
“As a small team of fewer than 20 people, all of those decisions to bring our games to new platforms carry significant opportunity costs where it’s like, ‘hey we could drop what we’re doing and work on another version of Pyre, but it’s going to mean that we don’t work on Hades.’ And after working on Pyre for three years, we really wanted to go on and move on to the next thing.”
