Ace Combat 7 Producer Comments on Switch Port Possibility; Explains Why it Became Multiplatform

Ace Combat 7 Producer Kazutoki Kono wants the whole world to be able to play the game, but feels that the Switch doesn't have enough horsepower.

[naruga]

i dont know about the purists but i ultimately enjoyed and loved Assault Horizon entry , no matter if it received hate because ditched the semi-fantasy world and most of the simulation feeling of previous entries...it was AAA to the bone with unbelivable soundtrack and action

....imo Assault Horzon was the proper evolution of the series instead of returning back to this classic form that lacks a lot of excitement in comarison to AH ....and i dont mean the more anime-esque world that i really like but the gameplay mechanics....and all these come from a huge fan of fighter jets and military vehicle simulation games

[Princess_Pilfer]

You know AAA games are generally garbage right? All style and no substance, and often not a lot of style either.

Ace Combat is campy, melodramatic military hero stories, and a slightly sim leaning arcadey fighter pilot game. They can take that "AAA to the bone" full blown arcade nonsense and go do something different with it, but it doesn't take the place or proper Ace Combat.

[NapalmSanctuary]

I tried my hardest to like AH but there just wasn't anything to grab onto. Forced DFM segments, forced gunship & attack heli missions, immersion breaking pre-canned quick maneuvers, extremely shallow mission design, lame story, no aces to hunt and easy ranking system even on hardest difficulty (The harder the difficulty, the easier it was to get an S rank. How fuckin stupid is that...) so absolutely no replay value, which is one of the primary drivers of value in an AC game. About the only positives I could find in it were the soundtrack and the occasional worthy opponent in online dogfight. Lack of a Strangereal setting was the least of that game's problems.

AH wasn't an evolution of anything. It barely qualified as a game. It had more in common with a Dragon's Lair arcade game from the 80's than it did with AC. It certainly wasn't worth anywhere near the $60 price tag.

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

Before you Switch haters come in here celebrating

"doesn’t think"

KEYWORD: "THINK"
Meaning they have even tried seeing if it could run it.

[Abriael]

i don't think too, and so does anyone who has eyes and has played the game.

[slavish0]

Its not coming to switch like most games get over it 😲

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

I don't even want the game so it not coming Switch doesn't bother me one bit. +
But when a developer say they don't think it can run then that their problem.

[freshslicepizza]

"they want the whole world to be able to play the game, and one platform is not enough for the whole world."

Good, now if most people followed this philosophy there wouldn't be so many arguments.

[AspiringProGenji]

"Life isn't always fair, get used to it"

- Bill Gates

[Rimeskeem]

Doesn't MS have far more 3rd party content "exclusivity" at this point?

Sony has their first parties.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Maybe I was out of the loop when they pushed the game back to next year.

I thought the game was multiplatform and the VR exclusive. Since the previous game was multiplatform, I don't see this as an issue. Even if the VR was on all 3 headsets, that would be great having wingman jet missions or battling in the clouds 2 vs 2 like macross zero
https://m.youtube.com/watch...

Just finish the game and make it good like 2,3,4 and 5.

[NapalmSanctuary]

I'd love to play a good Macross game. Last one I played was last year (Macross 30), had to import it. Was pretty cool but it didn't have yaw control for realistic control settings. Arcade controls did the job well enough, though. On the plus side it had almost every craft from every Macross series except Macross Delta.