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Chrizum on 29 October 2016
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JWeinCom said:
Chrizum said:
This is worrying to say the least. Sony and Microsoft involve third parties when developing their consoles. Nintendo keeps third parties in the dark and hopes they'll be on board after a promotion video. Publishers are not customers, they are businesses Nintendo should be cooperating with.

This basically means publishers at this time hardly have any games for the Switch. Most will take a wait and see approach, and with no frontrunners, third parties will stay clear yet again.

It's only worrying if you're determined to interpret it that way.  The list of third parties they have is already pretty respectable, including more or less all of the major developers, and several large developers who had not published anything for Nintendo for years, if ever.  So, to say publishers hardly have any games is a flawed assumption at best.

Considering that these guys already know what the Switch is and, presumably, have devkits, then it's pretty likely that the developers coming forward are more minor developers and indies. 

It's quite possible things don't turn out the way Nintendo wants, but as of the information we have, there is no reason to be exceptionally concerned about third parties.  They certainly seem to be doing much better than they have in the past.

Must admit I missed the word "additional" in the title, so perhaps third parties do have some games ready for the launch period. However, that list of partners doesn't mean anything. It just means they have devkits and are able to develop games, not that they will. Remember EA with their "unprecedented support"?

I really hope Nintendo has learned from their mistakes and really invest in their relationships with publishers (I don't just mean money) but I remain sceptical.