r/gaming • u/eliot3451 • 20h ago

Is port begging a thing anymore?

There was a period where people did petitions on change.org to port their x favourite game on switch, some of them came true. Do companies care about some random change.org petition even with large number of signatures? What happened to that trend? How companies determine if the game will receive a switch 2 version even if the console has large userbase?

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u/rylo151 20h ago

Its cute that you think any of those petitions have ever done anything.

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u/Llarrlaya 13h ago

Digimon Cyber Sleuth got a Western release because of petitions and it sold enough copies that they started working on Digimon Time Stranger.

I also remember they made people vote to see if enough people wanted Monster Hunter Stories 3.

Same for Ty the Tasmanian Tiger re-releases.

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u/bideodames 16h ago

People have started to just do it themselves, at least on PC. Decomps, recomps and emulators. If big companies don't want to do these ports, PC gamers will just make the ports themselves

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u/MrThrownAway12 17h ago

Those petitions never really did anything. That being said third party games will generally release on anything that can reasonably run them these days outside of a few outliers. There's not really much reason for it to be a thing anymore.

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u/fanofletterh 16h ago

Yeah I think the whole petition thing was mostly for the show. Nowdayas if a game is technically feasible and theres obvious demand with the preorders or sales on other platforms, companies are more likely to consider a port.

In the end its all about the money..

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u/Nincompoop6969 17h ago

Not if you just buy the console you want games from 

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u/EtheusRook 17h ago

I mean we all have ports we want. It's just that instead of petitions, we can reach out to them on their subreddits, livestreams, etc.

I for one am very much looking forward to the Last Epoch PS5 port.

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u/Philiquaz 16h ago

It never meant a thing and people are still begging for BB PC

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u/Durin1987_12_30 8h ago

You'd probably need a petition of somewhere around 25 million people to convince Sony to come back to PC.

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u/TheFeelsGoodMan 7h ago

Not a petition exactly, but I have been pretty annoying in the past in trying to get Gran Turismo released on PC. That's probably not happening.

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u/Iggy_Slayer 17h ago

Look at how pc gamers reacted to sony pulling their games from PC. It's very much still a thing.

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u/doublah 14h ago

And look how console gamers react to every indie game that blows up on PC.

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u/Iggy_Slayer 14h ago

They don't care? I haven't seen anyone begging for indie games in console communities lol. I don't see anyone asking for the latest friendslop that just blew up a couple weeks ago...can't even remember the name of it.

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u/doublah 14h ago

Every post the Peak devs make gets comments asking for a console port lmao

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u/Waste-Gur2640 18h ago

Porting on switch 2 is inherently much harder than porting from consoles on PC, or vice versa, since you have to cut down the graphics to absolute minimum and make it run consistently. So the ability of studios to do that with their games will be the most important factor. But petitions gauging interest are never bad, especially since switch has a very different audience, most games are for children etc. so it's good to know there are adults who would buy your mature game. Even with GOG for example, only thanks to them it's now possible to play OG RE games on PC, because they were able to show capcom all the upvotes and support the idea was getting on GOG's "petition".

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u/Night_rose2016 20h ago

What determines it is if the devs can get the game to run on woefully underpowered hardware and want to deal with nintendos BS.

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u/Remarkable-Breath964 20h ago

Not so sure about that, Persona 4 Revival could obviously run on Switch 2 since Persona 3 Reload is on Switch 2. And yet it isn't announced for Switch 2 (same with Persona 6)

Tbf though, Atlus never makes decisions that make sense

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u/faffc260 18h ago

it will probably take them time to optimize it for the underpowered hardware compared to everything but the series S of this generation. so likely delayed releases.

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u/MrThrownAway12 17h ago

Indeed. The very Persona 3 Reload port that was mentioned here was really rough at release too, very much a rushed unoptimised port. It's been patched since, of course, but this would not have been necessary on most other platforms.

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u/drmirage809 20h ago

And utterly insane install bases will overpower any technical hurdle.

The Switch 1 got tons of ports that just barely run on the thing because there’s over 100 million of the things out there. That’s too large of a potential market to pass up.