Obsidian Entertainment’s RPG: The Outer Worlds will not launch on the Nintendo Switch any time soon…

However, the reason behind it is not developer incompetence or the need to crunch the port. The official reason behind the delay is much more frightening. Private Division, Take-Two’s publisher arm, wrote the following on Twitter: „We’re delaying The Outer Worlds on [the] Nintendo Switch due to the coronavirus impacting the Virtuos team working on the port, to provide them enough time to finish development. We’ll now be releasing the physical version on a cartridge. Once we have a new launch date, we’ll let you know!” Let’s take at the good side first: until now, The Outer Worlds was planned to have nothing more than a download code in its physical edition. Now, the game will be on a cartridge, which is nice. However, Virtuos’ headquarters is located in Singapore, and they have several offices in China, meaning they are indeed in a bad location due to the Wuhan coronavirus. Unfortunately, the March 6 release date has been scrapped, as the Nintendo Switch port got delayed indefinitely…

In its quarterly financial earnings report, Take-Two also talked about the 2017-announced The Outer Worlds. The company says that it got more than two million sales, but the Xbox Game Pass subscription system might be distorting the proper sales figure. The subscribers got access to the game on October 25, the day when Obsidian’s „not-Fallout” came out. Sure, they might have counted just the game sales, we don’t know. Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of Take-Two, said that they want to release games where the people are, but he added that the older games, the back catalogue, could work better in a subscription model: „We think subscription offerings are probably better suited to catalogue but we’re willing to take experimental chances when it makes sense. It’s early days for all these platforms.”

The Outer Worlds launched on October 25 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store). The Nintendo Switch port will arrive later.

Source: Gematsu, GameSpot

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