Goddess of Victory: NIKKE, the highly sexualised smartphone shooter from Korean developer Shift Up, is celebrating its first anniversary at the moment, which means it’s being promoted heavily all around the world. We figured, with the same studio also working on promising console exclusive Stellar Blade, we’d ask whether a PS5 port of the cover shooter is in the pipeline.
Unfortunately, despite the title launching on PC earlier this year, a spokesperson for the studio told us that there are currently “no plans” to bring the game to Sony’s systems. That’s surprising to us, as developers like HoYoverse have found significant success bringing mobile games like Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail to consoles – and other developers are beginning to catch on.
While it’s mostly an idle game, Goddess of Victory: NIKKE has an arcade-style cover shooting component to it, where you control a team of well-endowed androids and must shoot down cyborg enemies using a variety of assault rifles, grenade launchers, and more. While the gameplay is quite simplistic – and can be automated – we imagine it would feel at home on console.
What’s more, it’s highly likely when Stellar Blade does release, there’ll be a crossover event in NIKKE to help promote the game. It’s possible Shift Up is just keeping its cards close to its chest for now, but it’s also feasible it doesn’t believe the idle gameplay will translate well to Sony’s systems. Would you be interested in playing this game on console? Dress down in the comments section below.
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I feel like a more traditional FPS or TPS with this setting could work. Maybe squad based cover shooting, or even Co-op against huge bosses with each Nikke having unique loadouts and abilities? Sounds like it could be a good time.
Cannot imagine having any hype for Stellar Blade when it’s made by devs that spend their time on an idle game relying on tamer sexualisation than what you’d find in a 00s lads mag.
People play that game for the plot, I swear
@swagbag7 I guess they're still working on it.
@swagbag7 ofc not, if it would release before the end of next month then we would ve had a release date, trailers, marketing etc by now. Seems pretty obvious to me that it wont release in 2023.
"Saucy Shooter Goddess" lol yeah definitely don't have plans to play that anytime soon.
@get2sammyb GIVE US INFO PLZ
@mariomaster96
I mean, yeah. Aside from the obvious "sex sells" character designs, the story decided to take a very "Ghost in the Shell" approach to the narrative. Questioning whether Nikkes are human, whether they deserve to have proper free will and so on. It gets even more interesting when you do each character's individual stories and you find out some repeatedly have their memories wiped as part of a cruel experiment, others coming to terms with the fact that they could die at any moment and how they chose to cope with it... it's a lot more effort than a game like this realistically required.
Saw the words "Stellar Blade" in passing, stopped scrolling and actually read the article, found out it's not about Stellar Blade at all, and the game it's about is not coming to PS5 anyway. What a doozy.
I really hope we hear news about Stellar Blasé considering it’s still scheduled (but looking doubtful) for release in 2023. Maybe an announcement at the Game Awards.
@ATaco Yes, like a The division.
It's better on mobile anyway, for one handed use 😜
That's weird considering Marciana (A character in the game) has a PS5.
https://www.google.com/search?q=nikke+marciana&client=ms-android-oneplus&sca_esv=26fd96ffb2f184c8&tbm=isch&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHsPjBv7KCAxX_SDABHVZwDKAQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=424&bih=795&dpr=2.55#imgrc=Ul4Y-tBjhlQdkM
Hopefully some info about Stellar Blade will drop soon. It’s been a good while since we heard anything about it.
I don't really mind If NIKKE comes to console. To me, it's a question of whether Sony/PlayStation would be ok with releasing it, considering how censor-hard they can be sometimes.
As for Stellar Blade, I still await the game's release.
Saw Stellar Balde in the headlines, expected news like 'delayed to next year' (since it obviously won't come this year) but alas, I jumped too fast, no SB news.😔
Of course they don’t, Mummy Sony doesn’t allow this type of game any more. Have you seen how scantily clad and attractive the characters are?!
Good call. I'd rather they not bring the game over than censor it to hell to get it on PS5.
I tried Nikke because I'm a sucker for anime games and I'm still salty over the shutdown of Priconne.....and it's honestly the most shallow and shameless one I played. I can understand it's popularity but I just wasn't a fan.
I don't want to see any more gacha on PS5. It's not a game model I like. For me Genshin Impact would be so much better if I could buy it has £50 game and have everything at once like a traditional RPG.
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