A Plague Tale Innocence dev says the Switch isn’t powerful enough for the game

Asobo Studios has said that its upcoming game A Plague Tale: Innocence won’t be coming to the Nintendo Switch, because the system just isn’t powerful enough to do just justice to the developers vision for the game.

Speaking to Gamingbolt, Asobo Studio’s chief creative officer David Dedeine poured cold water on the likelihood of a Switch port of the upcoming action adventure game. ‘It’s really the power of the device. In this case it was the amount of rats we needed to display. We already know that there’s too many rats, too many animations, too many AI at the same time’.

Dedeine didn’t state if Asobo had actually attempted to run the game on the Switch. But he did say that in order to do justice to the vision for the game they had to focus on the Xbox One and PS4, ‘And if we want to give justice to – it’s like there is a large bridge between [it and] Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro. And the Switch, it was too hard to make the same game in such a different context’.

So there you have it, the Switch will be missing out on this title. Whilst this news may dishearten Switch owners, It’s clear the developer felt that the technology wasn’t there and opted not to waste resources on attempting to do so. If you do want to play the game then, it’ll have to be on the PS4, Xbox One or the PC. 

A Plague Tale Innocence is currently in development with no planned release date, other than a vague ‘Coming Soon’.