It's still pretty early on, and these games take time. This is why we're mostly seeing ports and remasters at the moment - they're quicker to churn out, and like the Wii, these devs were caught off guard by the console's success, and hell, it probably took a year or more just to convince many to even START developing for the Switch after the sales didn't drop off a cliff like they expected, which means Q2 of this year at the EARLIEST, just for BEGINNING development.

So it'll probably won't be until late '19-'20 when we start seeing announcements for new major AAA stuff built for the platform. Remember, the vast majority of these developers probably assumed this console was going to be a massive flop, and games these days can take 3-5 years to develop with the monstrous projects they've ballooned into. Still, even when devs start jumping on board, I don't think Nintendo will ever get the support the other consoles get simply because it's just tough for these companies to compete with Nintendo (or at least many devs have that perception that fans of the console will opt for Nintendo games over theirs). This may sound arrogant as a Nintendo fan, but I really think there's truth to it.

Great post, at the bolded though... GBA had a lot of those games :D Doom, Doom 2, Wolfenstein, Final Fantasy's mainline and tactics. No elder scrolls though! But still... the much loved

Was on there.

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I edited post, "or at least very long ago".

GBA... very long ago....

now I feel old, but you're right!

It can't run the games, farcry 5, Fallout 76, Red Dead Redemption 2, etc.

For the games it could run... Idk they just can't be bothered. Though sales of third party games like Wolfenstein 2 are pretty bad. Doom/Skyrim sales were acceptable.

I've been saying it wouldn't get good western support since before launch, some people liked to hang on to false hope.

There are a few reasons that might explain why.

Power discrepancy is probably the most important reason.
And with that, companies have to decide if there's enough reasons to try and port/bring a multiplat. The userbase (demographics, mainly) is there but, if we look at the data we have for the US, only 30% of Switch owners don't own a PS4/XB1. That alone makes porting for Switch less viable (those same 70% users already have the option to buy the better version and probably at discount price).

When we look at the games we have from 3rd parties, things are not that encouraging either.
If we exclude M+R (because of the Nintendo characters), Fifa 18 is the (second) best selling 3rd party game with 1.03 million, followed by Skyrim with 1.01 million (a game that everyone has played a gazillion times) sold.
In third, we have Project Octopath Traveler in with sales of 0.66 million.
And looking down things just get worse.

Now, if the userbase wasn't there, we could say that lower sales happened because of different demographics, etc.
And, we can't exactly say because it's ports or remasters, when Fifa 18 sells a little above a million to 20 million Switch owners.
Even Sonic Forces is above Doom, and not just by a little.

Honestly, the reason might just be that there's no real BIG incentive to buy ports or multiplats on Switch, at least, those that are not Nintendo-like titles.
Though, all of this can change over time.

As some have said, games take time to make, but the annoucements, don't.
If the games were coming we would have known most of them by now.

Actually Switch could run those games if they are scaled down enough.

Wolf2 sold bad on every platform not only on Switch.

Wolf2 sold 0.08m on switch and 1.21m on PS4, the switch version was especially abysmal. Are you really going to dismiss that as "bad on all systems"?

Let's also return to the realms of feasibility instead of "switch can run anything if you take a sledgehammer to it." It can barely run Doom/Wolfenstein, games which run at 1080p60 on PS4.

You don't need to defend the switch in every possible situation. The machine is substantially less powerful than the other consoles which causes issues with porting demanding titles.

No, fact is that Wolf2 sold bad on all platforms, it had very weak launch on PS4/XB1 and had also weak launch on Switch. When you comparing Switch and PS4/XB1 release, have on mind that game on Switch is much less time in sale and didnt had any price cut for game and you have smaller install base, on PS4/XB1 you can buy same game for $20 and its like one year longer in sale on bigger install base. VGZh numbers are far from accurate, but going by their numbers Doom sold 2.7m while Wolf2 only 1.2m on PS4, and interesting enough, with their numbers Switch version of game sold almost same like PC version that again have price cuts and much lower price point and it was much longer in sale.

You do realise that Wii that was much weaker and much more different (tech/architecture) in any case compared to PS3/360, than Switch is compared to XB1/PS4, had couple of ports of PS3/360 CoD games!? When you want to talk about Doom, have on mind that game most of time runs at 830p and below 60FPS on XB1. Every XB1/PS4 game could be ported to Switch, only question is how much would need to be cut down.

I don't defending anything, I talking about facts. Point that "machine is substantially less powerful than the other consoles which causes issues with porting demanding titles" doesnt mean that port cant be done.

So there is none at the moment, got it. All things that you said are very correct and logical for ... your theory only.