Am I the only one who finds this ironic?

They probably bought into the marketing campaign of unreal engine 4, truth is that every platform still needs dedication and its own tools. X1/ps4 can do fine because they are too similar to pc, switch is the one that would benefit most of using the proper tools.

They know it's a big deal, I would estimate it's roughly tied up with Steam/PS4 as being close to #1 for platforms. This is why they shifted their resources to get on immediate fixes for the Switch. The performance problems themselves seem to be related to a memory leak problem (from my last understanding of it), which is something harder to test for and often harder still to fix.

And even so, I think it could be selling quite well because a lot of people are having fun with it, too. I saw a poll not long ago about how people were feeling about it and the results surprised me.

Switch was the least of priorities because the only way to make it a priority at all would have been to make it the actual development platform, at the expense of all three other platform iterations, because the Switch is more than a whole console generation removed from the PS4 Pro, Xbox One X and PC.

They had a choice.

1. Cancel the Switch version like they did the Wii-U version and hand out refunds.  This action would have upset many more people than the handful in this forum claiming it would have pleased.

2. Release an unavoidably drastically inferior Switch port.

3. Develop two completely different versions of the game -- literally as different as if developing for both PS3 and PS4 -- with one of those being entirely for a single platform, despite the fact that the custom Switch version would be a very close match for a much easier direct port of the PC-originated version.  Oh, and delay the final release by about another year to make this happen.

There's a very good reason why the Wii almost never got versions of even the most popular games on PS3 / Xbox 360, and that reason is the basic need to create an entirely separate version of the game just for the only platform people still use that's that weak.

sorry but how can anybody defend this situation? The last time the game was presented to the public before release, i think it was PAX, everybody saw the issues of the Switch version. And they lied about the issues being because the Switch units are getting hot. Then they gave the Switch version a one week later release with the explanation that the are using this for optimisation. Also, they released Promo-Videos from the PS4/XBOX One Version of the game for the Switch Version (look it up, here it is:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziyxCRvqeIg). It is only fair to feel ripped off. Most of the people that bought the game have the inferior version and maybe also saw this video regarding the Switch Version prior to release and rightfully thought it would show the Switch Version and not the PS4/XBOX One version.

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I don't particularly disagree I can only assume that the disappointment of a long delay for a highly anticipated console and the potential loss in purchases convinced them to go the route they did but that's just my guess.

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I doubt that it will hurt them since I doubt the issue will be present in any sequel since they know they will want to release on the Switch, particularly since they are working to fix it now.

I mean most people aren't going to hold a grudge 4 or so years particularly if they've spent the previous 4 years fawning over a great game, even if it had a few bumps in it's launch. AC Unity launched in a shit state that didn't stop AC Syndicate from making money.

Im going to hold a grudge.

Let's avoid dog piling people. Switch users have a legitimate reason to be disappointed. It's not going to be vocalized constructively every time, but leave that to our moderators, please.