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Nuvendil on 30 October 2016
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Darwinianevolution said:
Nuvendil said:

Actually, those mobile devs are probably not interested.  Their games are built around the freemium dominated market and poorly suited to the premium dominated market of dedicated gaming platforms.  Mobile games ported to Steam for example have done pretty dang poorly.  And of course not a single solitary one of those mini consoles that used the Android marketplace have taken off or really appealed to these devs because, again, entirely different marketplace.  And I high, highly doubt there's any Android marketplace or App Store marketplace on the Switch.  Like, I *very* strongly doubt it.

I still think the Switch needs the support of apps. It's a tablet, and it's going to need, at least, the social apps to make it appealing as a tablet for the casual gamer interested on it. Plus, small PC indies port their games to the Vita frequently, so there would be no reason to not do the same with the Switch.

I don't think they need app support.  For one, apps have never, ever aided a dedicated gaming device.  Amazon Fire gaming box, the Shield products, the Ouya.  All dedicated hardware dependant on apps, all failed.  And PC indie is a different beast all together than mobile indie.  And Nintendo only needs to be appealing to casuals as a tablet if that's hat they want.  Looking at their reveal video, that's not at all what they want.  The whole video frames it as a purely gaming device, no one even touches the screen, and the target audience was definitely your gamers, not your casuals.  And they are very wise to do that because 1) the tablet war is a bloodbath they REALLY don't need to be in, 2) casuals are fickle as Nintendo already knows, and 3) as a tablet design, it would suck, being - from what we have seen - too heavy, thick, and big to grab your run of the mill tablet casual.  Plus, Nintendo has always stood against the idea of markets eroding the value of games and the mobile is eroded value incarnate.  They'll want to keep that freemium infested madhouse as far away as possible.