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Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Game's Switch Version Ships in the Americas Next Summer
posted on by Karen Ressler
Bandai Namco America announced on Monday that it will release the Nintendo Switch version of Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization in summer 2019, with the Switch edition of Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet Complete Edition following shortly after.
Bandai Namco Entertainment also began streaming trailers for Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet Complete Edition and its new "Dissonance of the Nexus" expansion
Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet Complete Edition will launch in the West for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam on January 18. The edition will include all of the previously released DLC for the game and the new "Dissonance of the Nexus" expansion pack, which will also launch separately on the same day.. "Dissonance of the Nexus" will add four playable characters: Sachi, Seven, Yuna, Eiji.
The "Complete Edition" will launch for PS4, Xbox One, PC via Steam, and Nintendo Switch in Japan on January 17. Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet launched in Japan on February 8 for PS4 and Xbox One, and in the West on February 23 on the same platforms. The game launched on Steam worldwide on February 23.
The game developed by Dimps is a third-person shooter role-playing game based in the fictional "Gun Gale Online" virtual-reality massively multiple online role-playing game. The fictional game is featured in the Sword Art Online II television anime series as well as the Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online anime. Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet is the franchise's first game based in Gun Gale Online. Original light novel creator Reki Kawahara supervised the game's original story. Players' choices and interaction determine the course of the story. Players can create skills and abilities and utilize new weapons.
Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization shipped for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in Japan in October 2016, and in North America and Europe in November 2016. The game later received a PC release in October 2017.
Source: Press Release
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