Whilst they may be more Arcade than the others I mentioned, they are both still very different. Competing with Mario Kart (or similar) is hardly 'competition' for Ridge Racer. Its not having to compete with the likes of Forza, GT, Project Cars, DriveClub, Assetto Corsa, or any of the other Racing games that are on these consoles. If anything, this shows that Ridge Racer has gone from the Arcades, to Consoles and now is a mobile game and as such, Nintendo Switch is very much a possibility. In fact the last Ridge Racer game released in 2016 on mobile iOS and Android platforms (Ridge Racer Draw and Drift) and the previous Ridge Racer Slipstream (2013) was also on iOS/Android mobiles.

The original Ridge Racer was a launch title for the original PlayStation, made Ridge Racer V as a PlayStation 2 launch title in 2000, and subsequently Ridge Racer DS for the Nintendo DS, Ridge Racer for the PlayStation Portable, Ridge Racer 6 for the Xbox 360, Ridge Racer 7 for the PlayStation 3, Ridge Racer 3D for the Nintendo 3DS, and Ridge Racer for the PlayStation Vita - that's quite a lot of platforms that launched with a Ridge Racer title.Īs for Handhelds, as I have already mentioned, Ridge Racer has appeared on the DS, 3DS, PS Portable, PS Vita as a launch game, it has however also appeared on Windows Mobile and most recently (more recently than any home console/platform) on iOS and Android. In fact, Ridge Racer became synonymous as a launch title for various platforms. Ridge Racer 6 was a XB360 launch title and didn't come to PS but then RR7 was released on PS3 but not the 360 as a launch game for that console. Ridge Racer though has also been on N64, Game Cube and both Xbox and Xbox360 too - although the Original Xbox game was more a 'spin-off' than a 'Ridge Racer' game - R: Racing Evolution but the 'Ridge Racer' name returned on PS3/XB360 and PC. Whilst Ridge Racer may be associated with the Playstation, it was in fact originally an Arcade game - as in the traditional Arcade cabinet game that was then made for console - like Out Run for example.

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