{"id":108605,"date":"2020-02-04T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/platinumgames_unsure_astral_chain_will_remain_exclusive_to_switch_ultimately_its_nintendos_call"},"modified":"2020-02-04T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T03:00:00","slug":"platinumgames-unsure-astral-chain-will-remain-exclusive-to-switch-ultimately-its-nintendos-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/04\/platinumgames-unsure-astral-chain-will-remain-exclusive-to-switch-ultimately-its-nintendos-call\/","title":{"rendered":"PlatinumGames Unsure Astral Chain Will Remain Exclusive To Switch, Ultimately It’s “Nintendo’s Call”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Now that a Kickstarter campaign<\/a> for a remastered version of The Wonderful 101<\/a><\/strong> has been officially launched, there’s talk about what other Platinum-developed Nintendo exclusives could potentially be released on other<\/em> platforms. One game that many people would like to play (who don’t seem to own a Switch, we might add) is Astral Chain<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As you might recall, not long after its release in August last year, the game was review-bombed<\/a> by disgruntled gamers who seemingly weren’t happy with the title being restricted to Nintendo’s hybrid platform. It’s obvious a lot of Platinum fans out there would like to see this title made available on other platforms, so what are the chances of it actually happening?<\/p>\n

During an interview with VGC recently, PlatinumGames’ head Atsushi Inaba said it was “too early to say” what could happen, but did clarify it was an IP half-owned by Platinum and half-owned by Nintendo.<\/p>\n

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In the case of Astral Chain, it\u2019s an IP that\u2019s owned half by Platinum and half by Nintendo. So right now it just came out and it\u2019s too early to say.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When further pressed on the possibility of a multi-platform release, Inaba said it was ultimately Nintendo’s decision, as they own the publishing rights, and explained how PlatinumGames’ acquisition<\/a> of The Wonderful 101 rights was an “exclusive” case.<\/p>\n

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Ultimately it\u2019s Nintendo\u2019s call, not ours. They own the publishing rights to Astral Chain so really we have no say in that matter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The good news for Nintendo fans is that Astral Chain appears to have been a lot more successful than The Wonderful 101, which was released during the troubled Wii U generation in 2013. Not long ago, PlatinumGames’ director Takahisa Taura said the company’s latest Nintendo exclusive “sold above expectations<\/a>” and last week it was revealed the game had sold<\/a> approximately 1.03 million copies to date.<\/p>\n

In other words, we don’t think Nintendo would be as willing to let go of this exclusive in the future. What do you make of Inaba’s mixed messages, though? Leave a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that a Kickstarter campaign for a remastered version of The Wonderful 101 has been officially launched, there’s talk about what other Platinum-developed Nintendo exclusives could potentially be released on other platforms. One game that many people would like to play (who don’t seem to own a Switch, we might add) is Astral Chain. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}