Pillars of eternity, The epic role-playing game from Obsidian Entertainment, first released in 2015, will no longer be pasted on the Nintendo Switch. In fact, the publisher says that it can not further improved due to the limitations of the design of the hybrid console. The announcement was made on Tuesday on Twitter.
Originally funded with nearly $ 4 million on Kickstarter, Pillars of eternity was one of the cutting-edge titles in a renaissance of the isometric film genre that includes the Divinity: Original Sin franchise and the Wasteland franchise. Also known as classic computer role-playing games (CRPGs), the break was followed by a real-time title. Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire in 2018. The Nintendo Switch gate of the original game, titled Pillars of Eternity: full edition, was released in August 2019, and was developed by Obsidian and published by Versus Evil.
“It was a huge undertaking to bring us to this point,” reads the announcement by Versus Evil. “Unfortunately, we have reached a limit for what we can do with our updates of the game, and we have exhausted the options left to us from the computer originally regarding the limitations of the hardware we work with.”
Versus Evil further noted that ‘this will leave behind problems reported to us’, a reference to certain features of the game that do not work as expected.
Since its launch in 2017, the Nintendo Switch has attracted a surprising number of computer strategy games, including many CRPG titles such as the nearly 25-year-old Baldur’s Gate. Meanwhile, more modern games – including AAA action games like Control and Hitman 3 – adopted a cloud-based model that flows into the game console to the hybrid console via a network connection.
Obsidian, perhaps best known for his work on Fallout: New Vegas, was recently acquired by Microsoft. As Pillars of eternity, many of his previous titles – including the award-winning first person RPG The outer worlds – remains the full property of the studio.