A portion of a 4cr interview with Farsight Studios...
4cr: Welcome back Bobby! Great to have you here for a new Kickin’ it with. How are things over at Farsight Studios now that The Pinball Arcade is out on PS4 and coming to Wii U?
FS: Thanks, Antonio! Good to be talking to you. Things are going well. We’re super busy with the Pinball Arcade tables for Season Four, getting the game on Xbox One and 360 (again…), new pinball apps, and a couple other games here at FarSight that in the works. We’ll soon be coming to Xbox One, but Wii U is looking like 2015.
The Pinball Arcade originally appeared on the Switch eShop last month. The thing is, it was only up for an incredibly short period. FarSight Studios had it removed due to a licensing issue. A month later, The Pinball Arcade is back up on the eShop – presumably for good.
FarSight Studios have announced that over 50 of their current tables will be pulled from the Pinball Arcade on June 30th due to a licensing deal ending.
Ok. So they might as well just take the game out of the retail and digital stores, because they are esentially killing it’s appeal by not renewing the licenses. Wow. Well, hopefully Williams and Midway do their own digital games. Id even pay $5000 plus for a full sized digital pinball machine that includes all of the classic tables. Just as long as it’s 4K. Which I think is FarSights biggest issue..
Not keeping up to date with new tables and the newer consoles and taking advantage of 4K, to help sharpen up the visuals. Which, really, would’ve just taken a resolution boost and 16xAF, maybe add some ambient occlusion to make the table some feel more three dimensional.
You should only worry about this if you've never played pinball fx. 😋
The Nintendo Switch will soon be home to a variety of pinball titles and the latest joining them is The Pinball Arcade. The Pinball Arcade news channel just arrived in Europe but the game has yet to get an official release date.
