Marvel’s Midnight Suns, the superhero technique sport from Firaxis and 2K Video games, is now not coming to Nintendo Swap. However the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One variations are nonetheless a part of 2K’s plan, and can arrive on last-gen consoles on Might 11 — a little bit later than anticipated.
Firaxis and 2K didn’t illuminate the explanations behind the sport’s cancellation on a beforehand promised platform, merely acknowledging “{that a} Nintendo Swap model of Marvel’s Midnight Suns is now not deliberate” in an announcement on Tuesday.
It’s possible that the industrial efficiency of Midnight Suns and the problem of porting video games to the underpowered Swap are elements behind that call. Marvel’s Midnight Suns wasn’t a success for 2K mum or dad firm Take-Two Interactive, CEO Strauss Zelnick said earlier this yr. Zelnick positioned a number of the blame on a “launch window [that] wasn’t excellent”; the sport debuted on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Collection X in early December.
Marvel’s Midnight Suns will make it to PS4 and Xbox One the identical day that the sport’s fourth add-on, Blood Storm, which provides X-Males chief Storm, arrives on all different platforms. The three previous DLC expansions (The Good, the Unhealthy, and the Undead; Redemption; and The Starvation) may also be obtainable on PS4 and Xbox One at launch.
Developed by XCOM studio Firaxis and designed by outgoing inventive director Jake Solomon, Marvel’s Midnight Suns blends Marvel’s roster of superheroes, antiheroes, and supervillains with card-based battle technique. In Polygon’s evaluate of the sport, we stated Midnight Suns was “filled with wealthy texture” and “tactically subtle card play.”
“Midnight Suns isn’t XCOM — however that’s finally its best power,” our reviewer stated. “It’s one thing fully distinct and fully distinctive.”