Hades 2 will be a Nintendo Switch 2 console exclusive at launch

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/hades-2-will-be-a-nintendo-switch-2-console-exclusive-at-launch/

(Console exclusive means it's coming to Switch + PC, but not on other consoles on release)

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Sanctus@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 1y (7 replies)

That seems like a questionable move tbh

very_well_lost@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I suspect that Nintendo is offering them more than enough money for exclusivity to make it no longer 'questionable' for Supergiant, at least from a financial perspective.

Sanctus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I'd imagine the Hades IP makes good money on Steam. It must be a guap unless I am dead wrong.

very_well_lost@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Hades 2 is only console exclusive to the Switch 2; it's also releasing on Steam.

Sanctus@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

Ah, yeah I didnt gleam that from reading the word console a million times in the article. Thank you. It makes sense now. Nintendo money + Steam sales.

Stovetop@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)
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Sanctus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The only thing I know about Hades is its on Steam and every character it shows is chiseled as hell.

RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Every character in the first game is hot. Every character in the second game is also hot.

Then there's Dionysus.

SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 46 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I needed to check. "console exclusive" means it's coming to pc and both switches.

sauce (kotaku)

straightjorkin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Oh both switches?

SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

in OP's link, scroll once, see "latest update"

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 1y

I'm sure they're getting a ton of cash from Nintendo.

I'll stick to the steam deck and recommend it to anyone who asks.

madjo@feddit.nl · 31 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Great, but I'll keep playing it on my steamdeck. With your console exclusivity.

Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I just got mine a week ago. I haven't turned on my PC since lol

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

When I got my deck, my instant library of things to play due to old Humble Bundle purchases was staggering.

My backlog would take several lifetimes to complete, and I still by new games because "sale!"

I need to DL all of them before society collapses and there's no access...

"But there was time now..."

thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

$1-10 now is preparation for the future

ekZepp@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y

Considering that 99% of other "portable consoles" on the market are actually handhelds pc, which can download it fron Steam... No. It won't be.

AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 1y

Having already purchased the Steam early access version, I was ready to be pissed off until I read further in.

Koen967@feddit.nl · 15 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Does the Steam Deck count as a PC or as a console?

ampersandrew@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1y

In this case, it counts as a PC, but given that you have to ask the question, I think that speaks volumes.

simple@lemm.ee · 20 pts · 1y

PC.

JakobFel@retrolemmy.com · 2 pts · 1y

Both. The future isn't in consoles, it's in console-like PCs. Just wait until Valve drops the Fremont, I believe it'll change absolutely everything.

ColdWater@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

PC, because console has less games than PC

mj_marathon@programming.dev · -6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The dictionary definition of "console" would include the deck AND gaming PCs.

4am@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

The line in bluring, but the Deck can run Windows if you want, it’s a PC stuffed into a controller (and that’s not a dig at it, either)

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Methinks that's why Silksong has taken forever to come out. Will likely be a console exclusive as well for a time

ampersandrew@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

We already know it's going to be on Switch 2 and Xbox, including Game Pass day 1. It's not going to be exclusive, but at the very least, Microsoft paid handsomely for it.

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Oh meaning PlayStation will have to wait then

ampersandrew@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Microsoft is bringing their own games to PlayStation at this point. It's possible it's kept off PlayStation, but I doubt it. Team Cherry knows what their game is worth, and that would be a massive buyout.

zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 1y

Silksong hasn't taken much longer than og hollow Knight. They just announced it too early

JakobFel@retrolemmy.com · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I hope they're prepared to have a fraction of the success they would have if they didn't continue the absurd concept of console exclusivity.

4am@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It’s also on steam, like already you can buy it in Early Access

I don’t think many people who aren’t to Hades are like “aw fuck I can’t play it on my PS5??”

The three Xbox users are in shambles though

JakobFel@retrolemmy.com · 4 pts · 1y

Ah, didn't know that it's on Steam. Well, there's that at least. Still not a fan of console exclusivity either way, though.

JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Boo you whore.

Glad I have a PC. Again.

HollowNaught@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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H_dev@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

im pretty sure I have it on steam as early access and im waiting for the full release to finish the story....

TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl · -28 pts · 1y
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