Aspyr Media Says a 'Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2' Mobile Port "Isn?t on the Horizon"
It was just shy of five years ago that Aspyr Media brought BioWare's classic 2003 Star Wars open-world RPG Knights of the Old Republic [$4.99] to the iPad in an enhanced mobile version, and even ten years after its original release it was (and is) still one of the best Star Wars games ever created. Later that year Aspyr added in iPhone support for KOTOR on mobile, and since then the game has been a fairly huge success in the mobile gaming world. That success of course brought questions as to whether we'd see its sequel, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords, eventually hit mobile as well. In May of 2015 an ESRB rating and listing for KOTOR 2 on mobile got everyone all excited, and the following July Aspyr asked fans to vote to show their enthusiasm and level of interest in a mobile port of the game. Spoiler alert: People really wanted it. Fast forward to late April of 2016 and a significant price reduction to the original KOTOR on mobile led us to speculate that KOTOR 2 might be on the horizon. It also coincided with Aspyr releasing an absolutely massive update to the desktop version of KOTOR 2, which would have been a prime reason to leverage all of that work into a mobile release. Well, here we are several years later and KOTOR 2 on mobile still hasn't happened, and based on a note on Aspyr's blog this week, it might never happen.
The blog post is simply to let fans know what Aspyr will be up to with Star Wars Day (May the 4th Be With You) coming up tomorrow. I...
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