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Nuvendil on 29 November 2016
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Stefan.De.Machtige said:
Soundwave said:

Does that mean those people are actually going to buy NBA 2K though? That's the bigger issue. 

Even the 3DS struggled with this and lost a lot of third party support from its early days. Where are all the 3DS Resident Evil games now? Even got locked out of RE Revelations 2. No more Metal Gear, Kingdom Hearts, Ridge Racer, Tekken, Street Fighter, etc. and baiscally nothing from Western 3rd parties other than Lego. EA stopped with things like FIFA ages ago. 

It's all basically Monster Hunter, Yokai Watch, and a handful of other IP, but nothing else. 

Nintendo's userbase has some complicity here, they don't bother supporting anything other than same old Nintendo franchises and even many of those they don't support. 

A way to deal with that would be for continues bundle with 3rd party and Nintendo's one. Two bundle options could help.

I would have done a continues EA Sports bundle in a long NS switch support deal along side the expected Nintendo ones. That might be a good start for expanding that audience or recapture it.

Nintendo really needs to help promote 3rd party games period.  Playstation and Xbox do this a lot, using 3rd party games in sizzle reel ads.  Nintendo can't just focus the messaging on 1st party exclusives.  If they communicate Switch is purely a Nintendo box, that's what people will treat it as.

As for these statements, proximity to release is a key difference between switch and Wii U.  The Wii U had some good initial buzz, but the vast majority of that was in 2011.  By 2012, nearly every third party had gone silent or changed their tune to critical and skeptical.  We can't be sure why, some rumors suggest the first dev kits were stronger than the final ones, maybe some early PS4 and Xbone dev kits were out and about and those hurt the Wii U's support or maybe it was a lack of effort to effectively sell the device by Nintendo.  All this positivity about the Switch is coming out mere months before launch.  The final dev kits are out, the PS4, Xbone, and Pro are all in devs hands, all the necessary excuses to blow of the Switch are there if they were sufficient for it.