With it now being April 29 in Japan, today marks the fourth anniversary since Monolith Soft brought Xenoblade Chronicles X to the Nintendo Wii U.
As far as games go, it was one of the few that pushed the Wii U to its limits and showed off what the console could do. Even then, sacrifices had to be made as development was tricky and although the game was meant to release earlier in the Wii U’s life cycle, it just wasn’t possible.
It’s also a game that was so large that it barely fit on a 32GB disc and Monolith Soft actually had to avoid using cutting edge technology, just to make the game possible on the Wii U in the first place.
It’s because of the issues it sustained that it is understandable why Monolith Soft keep saying that porting the game to Switch would be a huge and expensive undertaking.
Because of what was sacrificed, if they did a port, Monolith would actually have the chance to rework the game and implement the things they had to remove. Why settle for a port when you can rework a game and have it line up with your initial vision and of course, implementing such things and a better online mode, is precisely why a port would be expensive.
Still, all of that is neither here or now and since it is the game’s anniversary, here are a series of our favourite illustrations and tweets regarding all things #XenobladeX_fes19:
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https://twitter.com/Not_odayaka120/status/1122517649001340929
祝4周年！ということで、4に因んだ何かをと思ったが特に思い付かず… レベル44のオーバードたちのスクショを笑
いい感じにエネミーのタイプが別れてた #XenobladeX_fes19 #ゼノブレイドクロス pic.twitter.com/q8MIIEqjTh— ぜぐ@バンカラバテンレガシー (@XenoGlay) April 28, 2019
住むならヨルピッカがいいなぁ
ネジリ木とノポン編橋の辺りが第1希望
青い絨毯のあたりも好きなんだも夜の方テレシアいるから探しても#XenobladeX_fes19 pic.twitter.com/eijRhAscXr
— ゆー🥔 (@yumiyoiyoi) April 28, 2019
ゼノクロ4周年おめでとう!!!!
祭初参加です！#ゼノブレイドクロス絶景写真#XenobladeX_fes19 pic.twitter.com/jLh4imBtpH— タンタル (@De4Bo6bCVzU0otp) April 28, 2019
ゼノブレイドクロス４周年のこの日を
おめでたい事で祝うために、惑星ミラの開拓率を100％にしました！数周してましたけど、開拓率100％達成は初めてです。
これもフォロワーの皆さま方のおかげです、本当にありがとうございました！
m(_ _)m#XenobladeX_fes19 pic.twitter.com/PCqCmltreZ— かむ@へっぽこブレイド隊員 (@kamu_talpa) April 28, 2019
い つ も の その2 #XenobladeX_fes19 pic.twitter.com/Oqysg4Z1hv
— リューイ (@ryu_i_kaze) April 28, 2019
去年撮った別段なんでもないスクショ類。ゼノクロのこのスケール感はやはりいい。原初は動画とロケーション被ってた。 #XenobladeX #XenobladeX_fes19 pic.twitter.com/GjdeypT9qG
— Seiran99 (@seiran99) April 28, 2019
4周年絵はまだなのでせめて3年分のお祝い絵#XenobladeX_fes19 pic.twitter.com/qXUuXm56vo
— のめ (@X_SAKUSIFU) April 28, 2019
ゼノブレイドクロス 四周年
おめでとうございます☆
#XenobladeX_fes19
五人のアバターを生み出せて、
ミラでの生活はとても楽しかった……！ pic.twitter.com/FRFEefMdvb— 唯識のビヴ・ロスト (@bivlost) April 28, 2019
Happy anniversary Xenoblade Chronicles X!
