The official South Park account tweeted out a mysterious message this week that seemed to tease an upcoming partnership with Nintendo. Many believed it was a tease that the upcoming South Park: Fractured But Whole would be coming to the Switch, but it seems it was all a misunderstanding.
A representative from South Park Studios via Comedy Central confirmed to IGN the upcoming game won’t be coming to the Nintendo Switch. Ubisoft, the company making the game, did not wish to comment on the prospect of the South Park game coming to the Nintendo Switch.
It would seem that South Park was just referencing the episode where Cartman tried to cryogenically freeze himself while he waited for the Nintendo Wii to release when they put the tweet out.
The release date for South Park: The Fractured But Whole was originally scheduled for December 2016 but was delayed to the first quarter of 2017 before an Ubisoft third-quarter earnings report put the Fractured But Whole release date at fiscal 2017-18. That puts the release date window anywhere between April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018.
One would have hoped the extra time in development would give Ubisoft time to put the game on the Switch, but as South Park Studios said, there are no current plans for the hybrid console.
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- tactical combat
- great environmental puzzles
- seamless adaptation of South Park
- engaging boss encounters
- Coon and Friends parody was already stale
- sometimes more referential than funny on its own
- several game mechanics feel extraneous
