Sony won’t release Lego Horizon on Nintendo Switch, but someone else will

Not only Xbox’s multiformat plans, but also PlayStation’s seem confusing at the moment. While Sony hasn’t highlighted them in the same way, it has been increasingly focused on PC in recent months and has generally made ambiguous statements about multiformat releases.

This culminated in the announcement of Lego Horizon Adventures (another high-profile game that still doesn’t have a release date) for PlayStation 5, PC, and Nintendo Switch – with Xbox deliberately left out.

Sony has never elaborated on why this is the case, other than the obvious fact that Lego games sell better on the Switch. However, it has now been revealed that Sony Interactive Entertainment will not be a publisher on the Switch, and the reason this version even exists may have more to do with Lego than Sony.

Lego Horizon Adventures on the Switch is not published by Sony, but by the unknown Canadian company Solutions 2 GO.

They’re only involved with the Switch version, as if Sony just can’t bring themselves to deal with a game on a competing format – which might say a lot about their attitude towards multi-format releases.

“We are incredibly excited to partner with Sony Interactive Entertainment to bring Lego Horizon Adventures to a global audience on the Nintendo Switch family of systems,” Solutions 2 GO said in a brief statement. “This partnership underscores our commitment to delivering high-quality entertainment experiences to retail customers around the world.”

Surprisingly, there’s a precedent for this, as the former PlayStation-exclusive baseball game MLB The Show is also being released on Switch and Xbox—not by Sony, but by the MLB organization itself. In fact, it’s only at their insistence that the game is available on multiple formats at all, as it was originally a PlayStation exclusive.

It’s likely that a similar exception will be made for Lego Horizon Adventures, as Lego will be aware that the majority of its target audience, both in terms of the game and the toys, uses Switch.

Sony CFO and former interim PlayStation boss Hiroki Totoki had previously hinted that first-party games for the PlayStation 5 would be released on both PC and “other platforms” in the future.

He never clarified what he meant, however, and the subject was never raised again. However, it seems increasingly unlikely that he was alluding to general plans to release games on Xbox or Nintendo formats – although there are occasional exceptions to the rule.

On PlayStation 5 and Switch, former Xbox exclusives like Pentiment are published by Microsoft itself, but that’s apparently something Sony doesn’t want to do with its multi-format releases.