What holds the team back from console development is simply that Novaquark is still a small indie team without the resources and manpower to switch over to also developing things for a console, much less a controller interface. It’s important to ensure that one version of the game (the main one) is getting all necessary resources instead of half of the resources it needs. However, since the hardware specs are robust enough to support the game… it’s not inherently off the table for the future, just not for right now.
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