Unrelated but neat detail, I never noticed how trade routes will park at the harbor. Now I realize my situation may not reflect everyone’s experience, but portability and ease of access can remove a big obstacle that could prevent players from playing one more turn. For two minutes or two hours, it doesn’t matter. I’m not restricted to a single room in my home, and I don’t spend the two minutes getting a game loaded that I would on PC. For me it feels much less intrusive than, say, going over and starting a game on my PC. You can whip it out at a family get together, pass the time during a long flight, or just have a few more minutes to beat that darn boss while someone else uses the TV. I don’t think I’m the only one that has seen a coworker pull a Switch out on a lunch break or on a commute to work. From its launch in March 2017 to June 2018, sold 19.67 million units! One of the reasons for its continued success is the system’s ease of use and portability.
So with the barrier of time, let’s take a look at the Nintendo Switch and Microsoft’s “ Play Any where ” initiative and how they could end up helping us play more Civ 6 and 4X games in general.Īfter the largely unsuccessful Wii U, the Switch has shown that there is quite the market for a portable gaming device. I don’t think my experience is unique as we get older our commitments to family, work, and other responsibilities seem to multiply. Fast forward to life now and, while I can spare some change to buy a game that might excite me at release and have a impossibly large Steam library, I just don’t have the time to play all the games I would like to. I had hours at my disposal to sink into old school RTS games or favorites on my Nintendo 64. I don’t know when my life switched, but I can remember a period of my life when I was much younger and I had more time than money. To begin, I want to look at two platforms and how they are pushing gaming forward, specifically by making games more accessible.
While each of the previous pieces offered exciting ideas on how to improve the gameplay, I want to bring something less flashy but, dare I say, more important to Civ 6 and the 4X genre as a whole. As you may have noticed, we at eXplorminate have posted a couple of pieces about Civilization 6 and our thoughts on what the future could (and hopefully should) hold if Firaxis is going to take the game to the next level.