Ka-pi96 said:
Soundwave said:
The problem with Nintendo going third party outright is I don't think they'd simply be as good of a company that way.
They wouldn't bother to try ideas like Splatoon or ARMS or bring back niche IP like Kid Icarus or Pilotwings or Punch-Out! etc. etc.
It would just be Mario/Mario Kart/Smash/Pokemon/Donkey Kong/Kirby/Zelda and maybe Metroid once in a while over and over and over again, just like companies like EA only make FIFA/Star Wars/Battlefield/Madden NFL/NHL, etc.
When you don't have any responsibility to a hardware platform, you have no real responsibility to growing the user base.
It's not like the Switch games look awful or anything, Zelda and Mario and even ARMS all look quite pretty. Would I prefer them running on a 1 TFLOP system at least? Sure. But I do like we are actually getting a real trade off this time in portability ... now I can play these games on long flights, to me that's a big plus, whereas the Wii/Wii U were underpowered for the sake of a controller, and that wore off real quick.
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Some people already accuse Nintendo of that though. And while they may be wrong, so is your accusation of EA doing it.
Titanfall
Plants Vs Zombies
Mirrors Edge
EA Sports UFC
Unravel
Peggle
All new franchises, smaller games or both that EA have made within the last few years. Just because their main franchises are the ones most people know about doesn`t mean that others don`t exist.
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Half of those games arent new IP created by EA, they were acquired.
Peggle released in 2007 & PvZ in 2009 and were existing franchises when EA bought PopCap, 10 UFC games released between 2000 & 2012 from various publishers, EA just currently has the license, Mirror's Edge originally released in 2008, none of those are new IP in the last few years.
Titanfall & Unravel are the only two that apply.
