The biggest problem with 3rd party ports on Switch...

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Busted said:
I understand exactly how you feel, and the most adecuate thing I can think of to defend switch ports is that as there are a lot of people who own the switch and other console(s), there are also a lot of people who only own the switch, whatever the reason for that be, it is never a bad thing that those ports are there for those people, and if there wasn't money to be made they wouldn't be there at all

I agree whole heartedly, I would love to see all 3rd party games on Switch.  However I feel the factors mentioned above might have something to do with why so many games skip the Switch, due to diminishing returns.  As a consumer, I see the reason.  But as a publisher, if there was money to be made, most games would not skip the Switch.

zorg1000 said:
Just to clarify, your main issue is number of games and price of games compared to PS4, right?

Dont you think being on the market for a little over a year vs almost 5 years is the main reason behind this?

I would agree with you, had all of the games that I bought not been released over the past year.  With that in mind, the games that swayed me are perfectly comparable to the Switch's 3rd party offerings.

Shaunodon said:

I think you've missed the whole point of portability. It's nothing to do with value for money, most people who work won't have time to sit at home and play through Persona 5, Monster Hunter World, Assassin's Creed Origins, and Dragonball FighterZ. They want them on Switch so they can fit them into their schedule while out on the go.

"...as my backlog on PS4 is now too massive for me to keep spending money."
It sounds like you've just written a laborious story about how you bought a bunch of games for less money, that you'll probably never get through anyway, rather than just wait a bit to pay more for a Switch version you can play anywhere and finish any time you like. That's why Japan loves portable systems, they're busy people.

Should've just bought Persona 5 and put the rest of your credit towards pre-orders.

I did not miss the point.  It is why I bought...

 

Disgaea 5

Dragonball Xenoverse 2

Skyrim

Resident Evil Revelations 1 and 2

DOOM

Lego City

 

...all on Switch instead of PS4 during year one.  It was the very reason I was going to get Dragonball FighterZ, Ys VIII, and Wolfenstein 2 on Switch as opposed to the PS4 Pro (before my trip to gamestop of course).

 

The thing is, the next games I will buy are...

 

Red Dead Redemption 2

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Torna

Smash

Spiderman

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

 

...at the beginning of next year all together.  I can assure you I will likely have the games I bought beaten by then, so why pre order games when I want to play the ones I bought already?  The point was to spend all of what I got at gamestop as I preorder everything on Amazon due to a 20% discount as a prime member.

 

So you see, had I simply just preordered everything at gamestop, I would have lost money in the long run.  So I instead used the credit to buy games I skipped during the first year of Switch that I wanted to play but never got around to.