Hi there Kitty Island Journey is broadening past Apple Arcade, launching on Nintendo Change, PS4, PS5, and PC
Hi there Kitty Island Journey is extending its attain as plenty of video games have pulled out of Apple Arcade
Apple Arcade unique Hi there Kitty Island Journey gained’t be an unique for much longer, because the title will get set to go cross-platform in 2025, increasing onto Nintendo Change and PC.
The growth was introduced within the newest on-line Nintendo Direct presentation yesterday, June 18th, revealing that the title will probably be a “timed console unique” on Nintendo’s {hardware} earlier than branching out even additional onto PS4 and PS5.
Notably, the presentation didn’t acknowledge Hi there Kitty Island Journey’s existence on Apple Arcade, or the truth that the sport first launched in 2023.
Hi there, new platforms
Hi there Kitty Island Journey duties gamers with exploring an island to search out supplies and craft new gadgets, fixing historical puzzles, and supporting Hi there Kitty and associates on their mission to renovate an deserted theme park.
Naturally, the sport leverages Sanrio’s common Hi there Kitty model, a globally recognisable IP from Japan. Apple Arcade touchdown Hi there Kitty Island Journey as an unique was an enormous win for the subscription service.
The transfer to pastures new means that Island Journey hasn’t discovered the degrees of success Sanrio and Subblink have been hoping for such a excessive profile sport and, as such, a rollout to different platforms delivers extra alternatives for the model to shine.
With out microtransactions or in-app purchases within the app, Sanrio has clearly decided these alternatives are most definitely to bear fruit on console and PC, fairly than a broadening to all iOS and Android house owners. In any case, free-to-play is king on cell whereas premium, pay-upfront video games are the norm on console. It’s due to this fact unsurprising to see a sport with out in-app purchases prioritising the latter.
Fashionable Kitty
Hi there Kitty Island Journey isn’t the primary Apple Arcade sport to current itself elsewhere. The 2019 motion platformer Fallen Knight really left Apple Arcade solely this January, however stays accessible to gamers on PC and Nintendo Change.
Mad About Pandas’ Hitchhiker additionally began off as an Apple Arcade unique in 2021 however rolled out on PC and console solely a month later; it left Apple Arcade this January too, evidently preferring to promote as items on different {hardware} than be a part of a subscription service.
Farm it!, World of Demons, and Epic-owned Wonderbox have additionally been pulled from Apple Arcade this 12 months, contributing to an rising impression that subscriptions are shedding the battle for online game dominance.
