The Switch and PlayStation 4 versions of Metal Black S-Tribute have been canceled, according to their publisher, City Connection.
A producer at City Connection announced during a livestream yesterday that their emulated Saturn version of the classic horizontal shoot-em-up for the Switch and PS4 would be scrapped because an arcade port of Metal Black already exists on those platforms — from a different publisher, Hamster.
They were originally planned to release next week on Feb. 1 alongside Xbox One and Steam versions.
City Connection said it still plans to move forward with releasing on Xbox One and Steam but at a lower price of US$7.99 to match Hamster's arcade releases on Switch and PS4. Based on previous S-Tribute releases, the publisher likely planned on selling the game for about $15.

Hamster and City Connection seemingly didn't know about each other's projects, despite both of them working with the same licensor — Taito — and City Connection announcing its intention to release the Saturn version of Metal Black way back in April last year.
Hamster, meanwhile, didn't announce its arcade version until the day before its release in November — seven months after City Connection's announcement.
The producer on the City Connection livestream reconfirmed that their other S-Tribute title releasing Feb. 1, Bust-a-Move 2 Arcade Edition & Bust-a-Move 3, is still coming to Switch and PS4 in addition to Xbox and Steam. That’s despite a Hamster-published arcade port of Puzzle Bobble 2 — but not 3 — already being sold on the Switch and PS4.
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