In 2024, PlayStation unveiled Lego Horizon Adventures, and surprisingly, unlike its other flagships, it announced that this new spin-off would be coming to PC and Nintendo Switch day and date.
A traditional multi-platform release by Sony is incredibly rare — with Marathon's launch later today marking another notable example — but according to reputable reporter Reece 'Kiwi Talkz' Reilly, it wasn't Sony's decision.
"Lego Horizon only released on Switch because it was mandated by the Lego Group," he explained. "It's not an educated guess, it's info I know. Sony views Nintendo as direct competition."
This is something that fans speculated about in 2024, though Guerrilla Games narrative director James Windeler argued otherwise, explaining that Lego Horizon Adventures on Switch was simply a "natural fit."
"I keep mentioning it, but we want this to be for everyone, and the Switch is really a platform that allows us to broaden the audience," he said in an interview with VGC at the time.
With new reports suggesting that PlayStation plans to pull back from porting its flagship single-player games to PC as it embraces a traditional exclusivity model, this discussion has heated back up.
Even former Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra chimed in,...
