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Evilms said:
CGI-Quality said:

Although their presence isn't as strong as it is on the PS4, there are quite a few AA multiplats that have made their way to the Switch (and, I would assume they're selling enough to justify a continuance). 

I know, I'm just pointing out that on PS4 there are so many games that people are forced to make a choice. On Switch the question is not asked people mainly buy Nintendo games on it, because not too much choice for AAA third party.

Just in 2018.....Monster Hunter World, Far Cry 5, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Call of Duty Black Ops IIII, Red Dead Redemption II, Battlefield V, Fallout 76, FIFA 19, NBA 2k19, Madden NFL 19 (yeah i know some of them are on Switch too but not even close at the same level), ....

And just in the first half of 2019....Kingdom Hearts III, Resident Evil 2 Remake, Sekiro, The Division 2, Anthem, Devil May Cry 5, ....

The competion a game like GOW has to face in PS4 is not even close to an exclusive Nintendo game on Switch. Most of those games launch even in the same month. When you buy Switch AAA games it's usually the only game of that level in that month, and most probably is the first one in months to lauch too. a PS4 owner, usually can't afford to buy 6 or 7 games in a period of 2 or 3 months (like it happens every year in the holiday season), so some people are going to buy game A, others are going to buy game B and others are going to buy game C (and most of them, because they want that other game, are going to wait a price cut to buy that game), while on Switch is more easy that most users buy game A at the same time. 

Edit: and the reason exclusive games on PS Vita didn't work, was because the console did not have good AAA games like PSP, PS3 or PS4 have, period. If PSV had a The Last of Us kind of game, a God of War, a Spiderman, a Horizon, and the support of 3rd parties with as successful games as in PS3 or PS4, PSV would've been a success like PSP too, but it wasn't.

If the next PS5 launched with the same support for 3rd parties as Switch, i'm pretty convinced the exclusives like GOW 2, Spiderman 2 or Horizon 2 would sell the same, but PS5 would drop like in half the sales....That's what makes PS home console much more succesful than Nintendo ones...., and it's that 3rd party support.

Last edited by colafitte - on 21 May 2019