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greenmedic88 on 18 May 2017
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SpokenTruth said:
GoldenHand80 said:

What worries me is that Nintendo Switch has already shown its peak performance with Zelda. We all know that every year developers tend to push their games to the limits to utilize the full potential of hardware. PS4 and XB1 hardware still got a lot to offer for developers. Unfortunately, this isn't the case with the Nintendo Switch and we're likely going to see third party developers rapidly abandoning this platform. As a result, the sales of Nintendo Switch are likely to decline in its second year as it won't have a diverse library of games such as the ones on PS4 and XB1. In other words, I'm expecting the Nintendo Switch to have a similar fate to that of the Wii U.

So a Wii U game is peak performance for Switch?  And because of that, 3rd parties will abandon the console?  And because of that, people will stop buying a Switch?

He really had me convinced until you rephrased the statement like that. 

Now it just sounds batshit crazy. 

But in all seriousness, 3rd parties will have to do more than just mobile ports of their games if they want to gain any sort of traction within the Switch ecosystem. $50 Bomberman ports aren't quite going to cut it and I'm quite sure most developers are well aware of this. 

I have my suspicions that games E distributed via the Nintendo Store may be the best bet for 3rd parties unless they develop something clever specifically for the Switch that takes advantage of what the platform has to offer in a way that can actually compete with Nintendo's own offerings.