Perhaps someone should list all the multiplatform AAA games of 2018 and see how many Switch gets?
I'll start, January
Monster Hunter: World
Perhaps someone should list all the multiplatform AAA games of 2018 and see how many Switch gets?
I'll start, January
Monster Hunter: World
Had a look for the AAA console multiplatform titles of 2018 perhaps someone can find a better source
https://www.stuff.tv/features/most-anticipated-games
(bold is available on switch)
Red Dead Redemption 2
Fallout 76
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
Battlefield V
Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Hitman 2
Darksiders III
Starlink: Battle for Atlas
SoulCalibur VI
Mark of the Ninja Remastered
Just Cause 4
Mega Man 11
Spyro Reignited Trilogy
Team Sonic Racing
Taiko No Tatsujin
not sure how much AAA some of these are
This statement is still very much true. The Switch is hitting a roadblock on power. Games are having to be extremely savvy just to get a port on the system. Many games are not on entirely on the cart, and require massive updates to have the game function at all. This is not a Day One update, this is the games are too big to fit on these proprietary carts, think Spyro Trilogy issue but worse because BluRays are cheaper. The system is hitting power road blocks you usually don't see till a system is winding down, 4/5th year. While the Switch has already seen better 3rd Party support than the WiiU, I suspect that well will run dry pretty soon, unless they come out with a more powerful version.
I will say that Nintendo has a certain perspective though that is true and more 3rd Party Devs realize it. Power doesn't make a good game, creative developers do. Nintendo has NEVER prided on raw power. They create their consoles based on the idea of what kind of experience they can craft. By this point, we should be realizing the shrinking returns on Bleeding Edge visual games and the return of the low poly pure fun experience. Hyper realism doesn't make Crysis sell any better. Fortnite reigns supreme in the gaming industry right now and it could be done on PS360. Minecraft is one of the best selling games of all time and looks like 20 year old voxel game. Our Nostalgia driven era pines to go back to basics.
I think the gaming industry is about to hit a glass ceiling on how much longer pixel ratio can be used as a selling point of superiority. What happens when we finally achieve complete photo realism? Are the games then better? Is the amount of time and effort put into achieving this kind of goal even worth it financially? The Switch may be underpowered.....but we are also reaching a time where hardware prowess doesn't matter.
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GProgrammer said: Had a look for the AAA console multiplatform titles of 2018 perhaps someone can find a better source https://www.stuff.tv/features/most-anticipated-games (bold is available on switch) Red Dead Redemption 2 Fallout 76 Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Battlefield V Assassin's Creed Odyssey Hitman 2 Darksiders III Starlink: Battle for Atlas SoulCalibur VI Mark of the Ninja Remastered Just Cause 4 Mega Man 11 Spyro Reignited Trilogy Team Sonic Racing Taiko No Tatsujin not sure how much AAA some of these are |
(underlined is not available on PS4 and XB1)
Fortnite
Just Dance 2019
Civilization VI
Crash Bandicoot Trilogy
FIFA 19
NBA 2K19
Your list contains some games with lower sales expectations like SoulCalibur, Spyro and sadly Darksiders (why does this game series not sell 5M+), but leaves out big hitters like Civilization?
Mnementh said:
(underlined is not available on PS4 and XB1) Fortnite Just Dance 2019 Civilization VI Crash Bandicoot Trilogy FIFA 19 NBA 2K19
Your list contains some games with lower sales expectations like SoulCalibur, Spyro and sadly Darksiders (why does this game series not sell 5M+), but leaves out big hitters like Civilization? |
People do not take PC-oriented games seriously despite many of them (yes, even the non free to play or non microtransaction ones) selling gangbusters.
It'll only get worse when ps5/xb2 comes out. Yeah Switch isn't powerful enough for a lot of the big games (red dead redemption 2 for example), but ironically Titanfall 2 is a game that could have actually worked.
A very layman's way of looking at it is, if it runs at 60fps on PS4 they can surely get it to run at 30fps on switch. It's the 30fps PS4 games like Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Red Dead Redemption 2, Far Cry 5, Mass Effect Andromeda and Witcher 3 that the Switch's power is an obstacle.
Titanfall 2 runs at 60fps on PS4, they could have ported it to Switch.
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
People do not take PC-oriented games seriously despite many of them (yes, even the non free to play or non microtransaction ones) selling gangbusters. |
Well, people on this site, which is heavily console oriented. I'm also on some german forums, and usually console gaming is belittled and ignored there.
Switch's third party support is already past Wii U's so I have nothing to say about this statement still holding up today.
As for the future, 3rd party exclusives (e.g. Bayonetta 3) will pick up the slack left by any gap by the Xbox Two and PS5 leave behind that will have to wait until the Switch 2 releases to close.
I think people forget that 3rd party Wii U support is taking more than half of the systems lifetime to even get a port of Minecraft. In comparison it was much less of a wait before Switch got the current most popular trending game Fornite on it, actually being able to benefit from the height of it's popularity.
GProgrammer said: Had a look for the AAA console multiplatform titles of 2018 perhaps someone can find a better source https://www.stuff.tv/features/most-anticipated-games (bold is available on switch) Red Dead Redemption 2 Fallout 76 Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Battlefield V Assassin's Creed Odyssey Hitman 2 Darksiders III Starlink: Battle for Atlas SoulCalibur VI Mark of the Ninja Remastered Just Cause 4 Mega Man 11 Spyro Reignited Trilogy Team Sonic Racing Taiko No Tatsujin not sure how much AAA some of these are |
Assassin's Creed Odyssey is available on the Switch.
OTBWY said:
Assassin's Creed Odyssey is available on the Switch. |
*In Japan, via the cloud.
Are suddenly a lot more Nintendo Fans ok with cloud gaming?