JRPGfan said:
They where lieing or talking out of their arses. If you have to redo the game from the ground up, to make a switch version..... yeah... no way is that easy. |
A console can be easy to develop for because it has good development software and its hardware is supported by a wide range of existing optimised code libraries but that doesn't mean you can port a game designed to work on a more powerful console easily in that case its hard to port games to.
I think it probably will be easy to develop games for but only upto a comfortable performance level of the hardware.
It will punch a bit above its weight though compared to pc's because its fixed hardware.
It's commercial success dictates how many third party games it gets ultimately anyway. Even if the Switch was mega powerful and the easiest console to develop on ever if there is no commercial reason to release games on it then it won't happen. We have seen competent games sell in ridiculously low numbers on wii u and while the wii u has sold poorly its still close to half the xbone userbase and yet xbone titles can sell in huge numbers in comparison.
I own other consoles and I'll only be buying Switch games that it makes sense to buy for me and wouldn't just buy them because they are on Switch. I only bought a lot of wii u games because they were massively discounted just to see what they were like or another reason to play a game I'd previously enjoyed on a another format. If the games had been better on wii u than ps4 or even 360 then I would have gone wii u first but they were mainly a lot worse on wii u.
