Earthion Launches Next Month, Mega Drive Version Pushed Into 2026

Oh that themed M30 controller looks cool!

I wonder why they've pushed the MD release back so far?

@Aloe Probably too ambitious and it needs tweaking to run as good as the other versions? I mean I love the MD, obviously, but that's some ancient piece of tech!

@Scollurio I highly doubt this. The game has been from the ground developed for the MD. If they would develop it for a modern system it'd look (and play) completely different. More likely for financial reasons - they want MD owners to double dip, which they wouldn't if they'd release the original version first. All other versions are simply ports of a MD game.

Ug - that Mega Drive news sucks. Was really hoping to wait for the 16bit version, but no way am I waiting till 2026 with it coming to consoles so soon.

@SlangWon Yup - I'M the reason.

@SlangWon isn't it because of the production time for megadrive carts and they don't want the rom floating around?

damn i want that controlle now

How does one come by such a controller? I’d consider getting that

Obviously they can't patch the Megadrive version. So they are going to play it to death to iron out any bugs. I will get both versions anyway.

Are preorders live for the MD version? I haven't seen them anywhere.

@romanista And they realised that now? Come on
Btw, production time for cartridges is not a problem and I highly doubt there will be much patching outside of the PC side.
They know people are impatient and are going to double dip.

Considering that it started out as an MD oldschool shmup the massive delay is disappointing.

@SlangWon what an incredibly pessimistic view. The tweet above describes what the reason is, you're basically saving "yeah whatever dudes you're talking out of your ass". Its also slightly entitled. Btw the physical copies from LRG will also ship 2026.

If you read that whole comment on X, he says he wanna make sure that all the bugs are found and fixed before they make the MD cartridges, since those can't be updated afterwards, like the versions for modern systems.

I'm gonna buy both the Switch, and next year the cart, of this one. I hope it sells well, so he can continue to make more 16bit games, which is his goal.