Marvel’s Midnight Suns Nintendo Switch version canceled

Marvel’s Midnight SunsThe superhero strategy game by Firaxis 2K Games will no longer be available on Nintendo Switch. But the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions are still part of 2K’s plan, and will arrive on last-gen consoles on May 11 — a little later than expected.

Firaxis and 2K did not illuminate the reasons behind the game’s cancellation on a previously promised platform, merely acknowledging “that a Nintendo Switch version of Marvel’s Midnight Suns is no longer planned” in an announcement on Tuesday.

It’s likely that the commercial performance of Midnight SunsThe decision to make this purchase was made due to the challenges of porting Switch-powered games. Marvel’s Midnight Suns wasn’t a hit for 2K parent company Take-Two Interactive, CEO Strauss Zelnick saidearlier this year. Zelnick placed some of the blame on a “release window [that] wasn’t perfect”; the game debuted on PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X in early December.

Marvel’s Midnight Suns will make it to PS4 and Xbox One the same day that the game’s fourth add-on, Blood StormThe X-Men Storm leader is now available on other platforms. These three DLC expansions are available on all other platforms.The Good, Bad and Undead; RedemptionThe’and HungerThe game () will launch on PS4/Xbox One.

Designed by Jake Solomon (former creative director of XCOM) and developed by Firaxis, the studio behind XCOM. Marvel’s Midnight Suns blends Marvel’s roster of superheroes, antiheroes, and supervillains with card-based battle strategy. In Polygon’s review of the game, we said Midnight Suns was “full of rich texture” and “tactically sophisticated card play.”

“Midnight Suns is not XCOM — but that’s ultimately its greatest strength,” our reviewer said. “It’s something completely distinct and entirely exceptional.”