Gerücht: Erscheint bald die Erweiterung Afterbirth für The Binding of Isaac?

@ChromXsome You cant compare the two. 2D games can be way more system taxing than everything else actually. Dont jusge a book by it cover. Think about it, next gen consoles can run The Witcher 3 at a very respectable graphical fidelity but had to gimp minecraft.

With Isaac, its the sheer number of entities on screen that can even kill the game on PC. Every single shot on screen has velocity, higth, width and animations, several enemys and gibs on screen, layers upon layers of Isaac sprites (every item its basically one more sprite on screen)`etc.

An example that killed the PC version:
Afterbirth introduced Greed mode. A single arena room mode, where you fight of several waves of enemys. Every wave of enemys counts as a "cleared room", thus adding to the charge of your active item.
The new character Lilith relys on familiars and starts with an items that doubles them for the duration of the room.
Pre patch, the item needed two charges. So every odd numbered room (or more often, depending on your other items) you doubled your familiar count. This became so ridiculous, that the PC version outright crashed because it couldnt handle it anymore. Basically, it ran out of memory. And there is nothing you can do about it than to gimp the item (which they did by doubling its cost to 4 charges)

For a console, especally the 3DS and WiiU, those limitations are even stricter. So either you gimp the game or you say "well, it isnt going to work the intendet way"

Again, dont judge a book by its cover. Just because it uses 2D sprites instead of 3D models doesnt mean its less hard to run for the hardware in question.It would actually be easier if it was in 3D, since you could just change parts of Isaacs model instead of layering sprites ad infinitum.