A developer that worked on ARK: Survival Evolved has recently let slip about a Nintendo Switch version of the game. On a forum post they stated:
“We don’t have any current plans for the Nintendo Switch, though I will be closely watching how that console does in its launch.”
The popular dinosaur game is currently available on the PS4, Xbox One and PC but if the dev’s comments are anything to go by, if the Nintendo Switch does well and boasts impressive sales at launch – we can perhaps expect a port to Nintendo’s new console soon after.
Sucks, but oh well!
And not to be that guy but dinosaurs never really existed…
Wait then what are the bones from?
Those were just Reggie Fils-Aimé’s bodies that weren’t ready, duh!
||Further proves just how primitive you humans are, ignoring facts for ignorance…||
||Dinosaurs were far more evolved than you bipedal primates…||
Denying the existence of dinosaurs in spite of the fact we’ve found their remains in the ground for at least 2 centuries now is like denying the fact medical science proves people can be born with the body of a male but the mind of a woman, or vice versa. Not to mention those poor people born with both male & female parts. @.@ But to a religious zealot/nut, I guess they’d just consider those poor people the spawn of Satan or some other delusional bullshit just like they once claimed those using their left hand were the spawn of Satan. Least these crazy people are slowly dying out. lol
Least these crazy people are slowly dying out, like dinosaurs did over 65m years ago! lol *There. Now that last line is funnier!
||I’ll do it four times faster than nature did to the dinosaurs during the late Triassic period…||
alternative facts
Dinosaurs still exist today. All birds are considered dinosaurs by modern standards.
Yes they did! D;<
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lolwut?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Museum_AL_dinosaur.jpg/719px-Museum_AL_dinosaur.jpg
Has anyone here played ARK? Popular doesn’t always equal good. It needs a lot of work, if you ask me (yeah, you didn’t, but here you go): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIP4KrnJPCE
Well of course it still needs work, It’s an early access game on steam lol
Would you pay for a demo that’s been a work in progress for over a year on PC and is still terribly buggy even though it’s spread to consoles in equally unfinished condition? Watch the video and tell me you’d drop good money on this as it is. One one hand, yes, the game needs people playing it for feedback purposes. On the other hand, come on… that’s what a QA team does for pay. You’re more or less paying them to be an unpaid game tester if you buy into the whole thing.
Will this be good if/when it’s completed? Maybe. All I’ll say is I put two hours into this on PC just to see what was what (thanks to a friend who picked it up on Steam) and wasn’t thrilled. Screens that look great are one thing. In motion… this has issues all over the place.
363 hours on my belt. It’s about as decent as Rust for an early access game.
Well, they should finish the game they’ve stared with on PC first…
*started
Exactly…I don’t even see WHY they are even talking about it! Then again, they released a PAID expansion for it…even if its still in early access (beta)
I know I know… They’re wait we say in Norwegian: Drittsekker.
what*
Thats exactly what I was thinking lol.
I have maybe 6 friends who play this on Steam; is it any good?
I tried getting into it on xbox but the graphics and gameplay is trash. You need like a really powerful computer to run this turd and even then it’s bugs galore.
I have a decently high-end gaming PC, and ARK was fun for the few weeks I played. But it definitely could use some work still and is far from being anything considered AAA.
I feel like the developers aren’t in a place to say “I will be closely watching how that console does in its launch”
like… you should be honored if you even had a chance to make it on Nintendo. Don’t act like they need to prove themselves to YOU.
I agree, but that whole “watch closely” is what developers and publishers say when they dont want to say “if it makes us money, we’ll be there.”
Isn’t this game overrated?
I hope not. The Xbox One port is AWFUL. I suspect the Switch version would fare no better.
Yup just like everyone else has said the game looks fun but everybody that’s played it will say it runs like crap on consoles lol since the switch has less power then Xbox and PS It would probly be even worse on there.
In other words: “We know Switch is gonna sell like hotcakes, but we are just taking a few months off before we start developing fully for this system”
}{ Ark is a pretty terrible game… You aren’t missing out on anything… }{
what ??? They don’t see that the Switch is sold out or what ? Do they live in the same world than me or its just me that I’m living in the super mario world lol
Sold out at launch/launch window time frames doesn’t guarantee a long lifespan, gab. Also, it takes time to bring games over to a new system and yes, some devs and pubs are waiting to see sales numbers over time before committing to what amounts to redoing some games from scratch for the hardware. A good business strategy always has to come before “just bring it, it’ll sell!”
That said, ARK is so wonky on everything else it runs on that I hope they do wait until they fix the other versions before even attempting a Switch one.
Yeah, they wait for sales, release late half assed port for premium price and wonder why its not selling.
But anyways I do not give a flying duck about this game on my PC, would not download it even if it was free, and Switch loses nothing of value here.
Third party support is set to failure again. All thanks to late release Skyrim, that is proven seller in the past, and they will use that as a gauge of success.
It will probably not sell a million copies, and third party publishers will shit their pants, rather than ask themselves, why it did not sell as well as it did 5 years and 1 year ago.
Just as a reference, my local retailer is asking 30% more for Switch version of the game, than PS4/xbone version.
My son and nephew play ark all the time and I don’t get it. It has a lot of issues. I’d be fine if it never comes to Switch in its current form. Once all the bugs are worked out I wouldn’t mind it coming.
do they also watch pewdiepie?
Uhh forgive me if I’m wrong but this game needs one hell of a beast rig. Even then it’s beyond laggy. Just see current steam reviews. I see no way even on the lowest setting in 720p this game runs on a Tegra.
im indifferent if this game comes out or not on the switch, what i do care is xenoblade 2 coming to the states and it better as is why i am getting the console on launch because im a cheater and pre-ordered at walmart because im an employee.
This game looks like it might have been pretty cool, if it weren’t a horrible first person game.