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GOWTLOZ said:
I'm fine with ports myself but its funny people want more ports of older games on the Switch while PS4 was criticised for doing the same xD

I never wanted ports of Wii U games myself.



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Jranation said:
GOWTLOZ said:
I'm fine with ports myself but its funny people want more ports of older games on the Switch while PS4 was criticised for doing the same xD

I couldn't remember how people reacted about PS4'S first year, but the difference is that the Wii U only sold less than 14million, while the PS3 have sold over 80million. 

 

In my opinion it makes more sense for Nintendo to port Wii U games. And it also allows us to play those Wii U games and 3rd party games on the go like never before. Obviously Nintendo and third party devs sees this as a good opportunity to port games. 

Sales of previous console doesn't matter. 7.1 billion people didn't have a PS3 so you could say the remaster would appeal to those people :)

Like I said earlier PS4 remasters feature better graphics and framerate for us to play the superior version of the game like you want to play the portable version. See how it goes. There is no defending one and criticising the other.



GOWTLOZ said:
Jranation said:

I couldn't remember how people reacted about PS4'S first year, but the difference is that the Wii U only sold less than 14million, while the PS3 have sold over 80million. 

 

In my opinion it makes more sense for Nintendo to port Wii U games. And it also allows us to play those Wii U games and 3rd party games on the go like never before. Obviously Nintendo and third party devs sees this as a good opportunity to port games. 

Sales of previous console doesn't matter. 7.1 billion people didn't have a PS3 so you could say the remaster would appeal to those people :)

Like I said earlier PS4 remasters feature better graphics and framerate for us to play the superior version of the game like you want to play the portable version. See how it goes. There is no defending one and criticising the other.

So what is the problem here? The PS4 got those ports early on, but now it is getting and have gotten lots of awesome games = Very High Sales. The Switch could do the same. And maybe that is why people are defending it. 

 



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Jranation said:
GOWTLOZ said:

Sales of previous console doesn't matter. 7.1 billion people didn't have a PS3 so you could say the remaster would appeal to those people :)

Like I said earlier PS4 remasters feature better graphics and framerate for us to play the superior version of the game like you want to play the portable version. See how it goes. There is no defending one and criticising the other.

So what is the problem here? The PS4 got those ports early on, but now it is getting and have gotten lots of awesome games = Very High Sales. The Switch could do the same. And maybe that is why people are defending it. 

 

I think his beef is that he feels like Nintendo is getting a pass for doing ports while Sony didn't.  My view is this: if a port sells at least close to what the original sold then it was worthwhile; if a port sells like shit then it was a waste of time and deserving of ridicule.  Wii U ports are worthwhile to me because each of them are probably going to outsell their Wii U counterparts and for all the criticism the PS4 remaster of TLoU got, it was worthwhile since it's going to eventually outsell the original.

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wombat123 said:
Jranation said:

So what is the problem here? The PS4 got those ports early on, but now it is getting and have gotten lots of awesome games = Very High Sales. The Switch could do the same. And maybe that is why people are defending it. 

 

I think his beef is that he feels like Nintendo is getting a pass for doing ports while Sony didn't.  

The problem though is that its not true, both recieve/recieved alot of criticism for having ports.



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nuckles87 said:
GOWTLOZ said:
I'm fine with ports myself but its funny people want more ports of older games on the Switch while PS4 was criticised for doing the same xD

Since I was one of the people who made those criticisms of the PS4, let me highlight the differences. The PS4...

A. Didn’t have loads of quality exclusive experiences in its first year to justify a year one purchase. I bought a PS4 on launch day, and a year later I was playing both an Xbox One I got as a Christmas gift and my Wii U far more than it. The only quality exclusive that system had year one was Infamous Second Son. The Switch, meanwhile, had: Splatoon 2, Mario + Rabbids, Super Mario Odyssey, Xenoblade 2, and Kirby Star Allies will be missing the year one deadline by mere WEEKS. 

B. Isn’t portable, meaning that PS3 ports to it inherently have less value. If you value portable experiences like I do, then the Switch is great because it has LOADS of exclusive portable experiences. Zelda Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8 DX, Sonic Mania, Doom, and Skyrim are all GREAT portable experiences and practically transform how I play them versus regular console versions. And the same is still true for these upcoming console ports.

Ports of games like Last of Us on PS4 didn’t do much for me, despite their quality, because I had already played many of these games in the exact same fashion just a few years prior, and being able to play these games in the same way with slightly up-ressed graphics didn’t really mean much to me. So far as I’m concerned, that’s what backwards compatibility was for.

You pretty much nailed it. The only benefit of the PS4 updates are they look about 4% better while the Switch offers substantially more freedom, and already has the back library of killer games. Not to mention, the games being ported from Wii U are from a console most players had never played - apparently (according to articles which explain why the Wii U failed) in the US, most people thought it was a controller for the Wii and didn't even know it was a console.



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This is pretty much what happened with PS4 and Xbox One thought 2014. Many publishers didn't think those systems would take off like they did and were in no rush to get their big games out. That's why we ended up with a lot of remastered games.



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They can at least make another 2D Mario game. Some ports are fine, but unless NSMBU is like 20$, it just seems a bit greedy.



Jon-Erich said:
This is pretty much what happened with PS4 and Xbox One thought 2014. Many publishers didn't think those systems would take off like they did and were in no rush to get their big games out. That's why we ended up with a lot of remastered games.

The majority of 3rd party support for PS4/XBO in their first 2 years were indies, ports/remasters & cross-gen titles so not all that different from NSW 3rd party support in 2017/2018.



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KLXVER said:
They can at least make another 2D Mario game. Some ports are fine, but unless NSMBU is like 20$, it just seems a bit greedy.

I wouldnt mind a Wii U Mario Collection

New Super Mario Bros U

New Super Luigi U

Super Mario 3D World

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

All on 1 cartridge for $59.99

I know it wont happen but would be nice.



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