| Soundwave said: There was lots of wowing over the Wii U early on "unprecidented support" from EA got Nintendo fans into a tizzy, then COD: Black Ops 2 being announced was a megaton, then Bayonetta 2 in collaboration with Sega was a huge deal. This is an actual gif from summer 2012, prior to the Wii U's launch:
This is just laughably embarrassing to look back on now. To be honest the Wii U third party support from Western devs was not that bad. COD, Assassin's Creed, Batman Arkham, FIFA, Madden NFL, and NBA 2K represented probably 6 of the top 8 third party IP in the business at the time and it had other stuff like Zombi U, Rayman, Deux Ex, Need for Speed too. The problem was a lot of these devs bailed after about 1-2 years of support. I think Switch will be missing some of those listed above. Probably no COD or Madden NFL at launch I'm thinking (EA has said only one game, and that probably means FIFA, that also means no Battlefront, no Star Wars, no NHL, no Need For Speed, no Mass Effect). My guesses are basically YES for Switch: Skyrim, NBA2K17, Dragon Quest XI, Sonic, Just Dance, FIFA 2017, Monster Hunter XX, Batman: Arkham Knight port, Resident Evil 7, Kingdom Hearts 3, Tekken 7, Metal Gear Solid V port, Minecraft. NO for Switch Red Dead Revolver 2, Call of Duty, NHL 2017, Battlefield, Mass Effect, GTA VI, Star Wars Battlefront, Need For Speed, The Witcher 3. Maybe not exactly like that, but I think for every "big" IP the Switch gets, there will be one missing. |
There are some points you keep ignoring, fact is that developers seems more positive about Switch than they ever been for Wii U, Switch even has Bethesda on board that one of most hard core 3rd party developer out there and don't support any Nintendo console from NES. Also that list of Switch 3rd party partners is bigger than Wii Us list.
Also it seems that Nintendo this time actualy trying to have 3rd party on borad for Switch, Take-Two said: "Nintendo making a great effort to support third-party developers”, and we know with Wii U there was tons of problems for 3rd parties, like OS and online capabilities wasn't ready on launch time, Nintendo did not provide proper paper work and all info for dev kits and full specs, they had bad comunication with 3rd party...
Also fact is that Switch has very modern tech and hardware with newst and most modern tools and APIs, and support for evre modern engine on market, and all that makes developing and porting for Switch more easier and actualy posible (Wii U didnt suport U4 for instance) than it was for Wii U.
Wii U actually had decent 3rd party at launch, but biggest problems for those 3rd parties who supported Wii U on launch was terrible sales for Wii U and very uncertain future for console, and we know that just after 1st year Wii U was considered for faile.
With all above on mind and almost fact that Switch will sell much better than Wii U and it won't be considered for failed after 1st year, it realistic to expect that Switch will have better 3rd party support than Wii U in its 1st year (and Wii U 1st year 3rd party support actualy was decent), offcoures nobady expect that will have exatly same 3rd part support like XB1/PS4.
Wii and Wii U had CoD and NFS, so Switch can easly have them also.
I will just add that Luara Kate Dale and Emily reported that few 3rd parties are playing "wait and see" with Switch, that basicly means they waiting to see how exatly Switch will perform and how much it will be popular before they start suporting Switch. Also Kimishima said, that after Switch reveal trailer, list of Switch supporters is even bigger because after trailer more developer were on board for Switch.
