GameIndustry.biz article on how VI's success on the Switch led Fireaxis to take VII multiplatform

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The article mainly talks about VII, so I figured it would be best here:


The key points:
* PC players were double dipping for portability
* current gen hardware is just PC hardware anyways
*Behavior Interactive are the port makers with Fireaxis being directly involved
*The team apparently enjoyed making multiple level of detail assets for making the Switch version of VII because of the challenge.
* COVID delays because the Fireaxis team can throw ideas out better together.

This one needs a quote:

"You're going to find these things like abandoned fighting pits, trading encampments… you can catch thieves," Shirk says. "And when you find them, the narrative system presents a decision that you need to make based on what you've found. It might be that you find relics, and you could go off and find the tribe that left those relics there, or take them back and put them in a museum. There are these story bits that are scattered throughout that world. Additionally, each Civ leader has a primary quest line that is tied specifically to them historically.
 
So, Behavior Interactive is who they worked on the ports with, but handled much more in-house.

My thoughts on having a hand-held platform is that if I really wanted to take Civ on the move I'd get a Steam Deck or Asus Ally ROG. The Switch is suboptimal and has been since its inception. The Switch 2 is reportedly coming soon, but I doubt it will be on par with the competition. It will continue to make sales on its ability to be both a TV console and handheld with Nintendo's revered stable of game series.
 
My preferred way of playing Civ on the move is the iPad.

It plays really well with the touch controls and the pencil tbh.

On;y thing it unfortunately did not have was the leader animations
 
I am just SO pleased Aspyr is gone.
This news made me think about buying Civ VII on Switch. Denuvo free it might even run better than on many more powerful (and expensive) devices, and much longer too.
 
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