NetEase Hong Kong’s free-to-play battle royale game, Knives Out, has had great success on Nintendo Switch.
The company celebrated the game’s 300,000th download on Nintendo Switch.
#荒野行動Switch版 ダウンロード数30万突破！ユーザーの皆さんのご支持、ありがとうございます😆
これからも続々と新しい内容を実装しますので、今後ともよろしくお願いします！#荒野行動 pic.twitter.com/j5YNpYJEIP
— 荒野行動-『KNIVES OUT』公式 (@GAME_KNIVES_OUT) November 2, 2019
About Knives Out
One game that’s not made the transition across to the Nintendo Switch device yet is the original battle royale game, Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (commonly abbreviated as PUBG).
Chinese developer NetEase stepped in to release its own free-to-play battle royale title, Knives Out.
By the looks of things, the Nintendo Switch version is a fairly standard port of the iOS and Android originals, fit with microtransactions and some muddy visuals.
Regardless of the existence of other, more popular mobile battle royales, folks still seem to be playing and enjoying Knives Out. Perhaps it’s doing something neat and different?
As of November 3, 2019, the Nintendo Switch version of Knives Out is only available in Japan.
