Publisher Tells Nintendo To Pull Its Own Game From Switch 2 eShop while it waits for backwards compatibility patch to go live

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Limited Run Games has asked Nintendo to region Gex Trilogy from merchantability via the Nintendo Switch 2 eShop, until there's "clarity" connected erstwhile a spot volition beryllium deployed to code a occupation with the game's backwards compatibility.

In a connection posted to societal media, Limited Run said it did not expect the spot to get this week owed to delays with its approval, thing it linked to yesterday's US nationalist holiday. So, successful the meantime, the steadfast said it had instructed Nintendo to propulsion the crippled instead.

Limited Run said it had faced Switch 2 backwards compatibility issues with a fig of its games primitively released for Switch 1, and portion a caller Switch 2 firmware update had improved this concern for the "majority" of its titles, GEX Trilogy was inactive impacted. The institution had past tried to lick the contented with a spot — and it is this spot the developer is inactive waiting to beryllium approved for nationalist release.

"Since we bash not person clarity connected erstwhile GEX Trilogy connected Switch 2 volition beryllium fixed successful firmware, we submitted our ain spot past week to close the issue," Limited Run said. "Due to the Juneteenth holiday, spot support this week is delayed, but we expect to beryllium capable to contented the spot aboriginal adjacent week.

"In the meantime, we person asked Nintendo to region the crippled from the Switch 2 eShop. Thank you for your patience arsenic we enactment with Nintendo to resoluteness these issues."

The steadfast has suggested players cheque to spot if different titles from the institution are so present moving arsenic intended — a database of which you tin spot below:

  • Clock Tower: Rewind
  • Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection
  • Tomba! Special Edition
  • River City Girls Zero
  • A Boy and his Blob Collection
  • Rocket Knight Adventures
  • Shantae
  • Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection
  • Xtreme Sports
  • Trip World DX
  • Felix the Cat
  • Rendering Ranger R-2: Rewind

Gex Trilogy is simply a postulation of each 3 of the wise-cracking, snarky gecko's level adventures: Gex, Gex: Enter the Gecko, and Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko. It released for PC, PS5, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, Xbox Series, and last-gen consoles connected June 16. The archetypal Gex archetypal released each the mode backmost successful 1995 for the 3DO and aboriginal ported onto the archetypal PlayStation, the Sega Saturn, and PC. It spawned sequels successful 1998 and 1999, but steadfast Square Enix hasn’t released immoderate caller entries since — hence the excitement for this remaster.

Nintendo Switch 2 is disconnected to a beardown start, with 3.5 cardinal consoles sold, but an investigation connected the console's motorboat week income paints a mixed representation of however good games not made by Nintendo are present selling.

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