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Phantasy Star Online 2 Cloud Switch Game Launches in Spring 2018
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Sega announced on Saturday during a livestream event that it will launch Phantasy Star Online 2 Cloud, the Nintendo Switch version of the Phantasy Star Online 2 game, in spring 2018.
The release will be a cloud game, allowing players to connect to a network and play with data stored in the cloud. Players will not need to download game data. Basic gameplay will be free, but some in-game items will be available at cost.
Sega released the free-to-play Phantasy Star Online 2 role-playing game for Windows PC in Japan in 2012, followed by a PlayStation Vita release in 2013, and an Android and iOS release in April and May 2014, respectively. The game launched on the PlayStation 4 in April 2016, alongside the game's "Episode 4" update. The game has more than 4.5 million registered users.
Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation, a television anime series based on the game, premiered in January 2016.
Source: Dengeki Online via Gematsu
