The Nintendo Switch Third Party Support at launch

[MikeRox]

Alkibiádēs said:

MikeRox said:
I'll not get too excited yet.

Codemasters were onboard for 3DS and Vita hyping me for portable DIRT or GRID. We got like one poor port of F1 and that was about it. :/

As you can see from my OP, I'm mostly banking on Japanese third party support, with minimal support from Western studios (though I do hope their position changes if the Switch becomes a success).

That will be interesting. The way I see it. Switch has the right ingredients so far to absolutely blitz the Japanese market. However I can see the PS4's Western dominance being an acchiles heel to it managing to grab exclusivity of even many Japanese titles that the publishers feel could/would do well in the West.

I'd therefore see the Switch getting multi plat releases a plenty, but the lack of exclusives would hamper Nintendo's efforts to get better Western marketshare.

Obviously Nintendo are more than capable of striking deals/marketing/pricing the system in a way where it is more than capable of securing a decent chunk of Western interest though. It'll certainly be interesting to see how it all pans out.

Vita was my dream handheld. Switch actually looks like it can beat it in every way for the reasons I loved the Vita. I just hope it's software lineup is not held back by the same lack of Western 3rd party support.