The cult-popular “unite action” superhero-’em-up was a commercial flop on Wii U, maybe, but the prospects of Switch, PC, and PS4 versions are much more… wonderful. Sorry, not sorry.
First launched in 2013, Hideki Kamiya’s Wonderful 101 was loved by reviewers, but its sales numbers on Nintendo’s console missed expectations (much like the sales numbers of Nintendo’s console, I guess). Now going with a second-time-lucky Kickstarter campaign, PlatinumGames has already banked almost $1 million over its $ $49,890 cash objective – no doubt boosted by Kamiya’s promise to block backers on Twitter.
“The Wonderful 101 is a game that unfortunately didn’t reach the audience we hoped, so it’s always been a title that we wanted to revisit at some point in time,” executive producer Atsushi Inaba tells Polygon. “And we’d spoken with Nintendo about releasing it on the Switch and other platforms, and we wanted to try publishing it ourselves. Nintendo gave us the okay, so a lot of things came together – the timing and the licensing from Nintendo that gave us this opportunity to self-publish. However, as PlatinumGames is a developer and not a publisher, we want help to make this a reality, so we thought the best way to do this would be to create a crowdfunding campaign where the users unite.”
Game’s out in April.