Takahashi: Xenoblade Chronicles X for Switch “would love to think about” and more

[AngryLittleAlchemist]

While I would like a Virtual Console that allows you to buy Wii U games, I'm really sick of hearing about ports and how we shouldn't care that Nintendo is using poorly-upgraded versions of games to sell a console because it makes "business sense".

I've never seen a community before jump down every discussion about ports with "But it makes sense because xxx amount of people missed xxx amount of games!" In fact I remember that when the Playstation 4 first launched sooooo mannnyyy Nintendo fans were calling the PS4 the "Remasterstation 4" and making fun of it because The Last of Us was such a big deal for the PS4 early adopters. But now it's totally fine, even though games like Mario Kart 8 already sold more than 8 million copies.

I frankly do not care if ports are successful, they should almost never be a selling point of a system unless it's an extremely old game. Someone wrote something along the lines of "Yea - Nintendo totally shouldn't port games on Switch, look at how unsuccessful it is!" sarcastically on the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe comment page. To me this is totally missing the point completely. Usually I see Nintendo fans consistently critiquing Nintendo but they just don't budge in this department because, for once in the life of gamers, people care more about the buisness practicality than they do their own value as a consumer. It's especially funny when you consider almost every game that people wanted or thought would be ports were the games that exceeded expectations, titles like Splatoon, Mario Kart 8, and Super Smash Bros. The irony is that a game like Xenoblade X is probably one of the few Wii U games that should be ported for more money and shipped for 50-60$ considering the fact that it has so much content and is fairly new, but now that Xenoblade 2 is coming soon most people would see a value problem in that amount of money.

Personally I was one of those people that bought the Last of Us on PS4 because I missed it on PS3, but I didn't buy a console around it and I think marketing a console around it wouldn't be a good business practice. If Nintendo released these on the Eshop or even released them at stores at a discounted price, it wouldn't be a problem. But it's clear with games like Mario Kart 8 that Nintendo doesn't care about their relative value for Wii U owners, or for gamers who are even aware of their existence. I know it's not my place to comment for consumers and there are certainly some benefits and added value of having ports, but I would hope that Nintendo sticks to their words and, by enlarge, ignore making more ports for marketing purposes rather than fan-service. I would buy Xenoblade Chronicles X in an instant, but I don't want to see the Wii U's failed marketing become the Switch's biggest strength.