Third party sales on Switch

[rjason12]

VAMatt said:

rjason12 said:

Hell it would be cool if they had a semi pre-order system like kickstarter, where people could put down like 1-5 bucks each and if the VC game reaches its target, everyone would pay the difference they owe and get the game when it launches.

Yes, something like that would be cool.  But, I'm not sure why it would need to be reserved for VC games.  Why not do straight Kickstarter style campaigns for any games that the devs are on the fence about making?  It works for companies that nobody has ever heard of.  Why not big names developers?  

Only thing I can see is that people don't like giving big companies more money than they think they deserve. It's like "hey so-and-so why don't you make all these games that sell like shit so that I can be happy". It's a great way to gauge interest in a title though and know exactly a locked in amount of sales. I also think that companies with legacy games/consoles should have a special ordering system where you could custom order old consoles/games to be special made and sold to you, some people would pay tons of money if they could get an official repro system/game from companies like Nintendo and Sega.