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oniyide on 04 November 2016
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Wildcard36qs said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:

This guy gets it.

I don't want to sound like a broken record, but who is waiting for Switch to play Mass Effect and Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto? If people want to play those games they have many places to play them. 

The formula here is simple. Step one: Nintendo makes games people want. Step two: Nintendo creates an inexpensive, accesible ecosystem in which to play those games. Step three: consumers buy the cheap system to play the desired games. Step four: other game makers notice growing hardware sales and start making games for the system. A rising tide lifts all boats.

A lot of folks on this forum seem to think it should work the complete opposite. 1) Reach out to other game makers to satisfy their demands, which 2) will result in an overpowered, overpriced system, which 3) will cause hardware sales to sputter, which 4) will lower software sales for both Nintendo and third parties. A falling tide sinks all boats.

I agree with you guys to a point, but the outcrys of everyone for Nintendoom has always been lack of 3rd party support. And sure 3rd party support technically means that if a developer makes any game for Switch, but what most people mean when they say they want 3rd party support is equal treatment and effort (ie. the same AAA games). When you have 2 consoles that are near enough in power, you can spend a lot of money on a AAA game and port to either one and PC without any difficulty. When you have an outlier, it takes more effort and more money which then means there is less incentive to do so. This gets us in the situation of the Wii U. The only way this will not happen again is if the Switch takes off and has a huge userbase that will guaratnee sales for these developers (like the Wii did).

I agree with the strategy Nintendo is taking on making a cheap, accessible device that will appeal to a broad demographic, and hopefully the world does too. I personally do not play many multiplat AAA games. I have a high-end PC for those, so this again doesn't affect me as much, but I know it will affect a lot of people who can afford only 1 console. 

IMHO i think most of those people are full of crap and just lookin for any reason to hate on Ninty, they were never interested in getting a Ninty system. Hell look at those games that did release on Wii U that were AAA multiplats they all flopped hard.