wombat123 said:
That's the first thing I thought when I saw this rumor (if it's true). Kind of reminds me of EA and ME3 on the Wii U for some reason even though the situations for both are different. |
Yeah, I hate when companies try to use and old port of a game on a new system as any sort of metric as to how the rest of their games will sell and whether they should put them on the system too, it's so dumb and makes no sense.
"We don't know how much our new games coming out might sell on this new system, so let's port a years old game that everyone has played at this point and is nothing special on this new system and see how much that sells then decide".
-Game bombs because it's old and everyone played it a long time ago.
"Oh man, our old ported game that, again everyone played years ago, DIDN'T sell well on it? Guess that means our future games won't either, so don't bother bringing them".
Same could be said with Skyrim Remastered on the Switch, I think if that game bombs on the Switch, especially since it's not even close to launch, then possibly Bethesda isn't gonna bring anymore future games to it such as maybe the next Elder Scrolls or Fallout after that. I think they would have been better off porting Fallout 4 honestly, at least that games not too old.
I could see it maybe being from a developers perspective something like "Oh, well we don't wanna spend a lot of money on this system since who knows if it will sell well so let's just port something that won't cost that much money for now and see from there", but it's still dumb imo since that's not a good basis at all for whether they should bring future games or not.
I hope i'm wrong, since Nintendo having both Bethesda and Rockstar support would be fantastic, but only time will tell.
I hope eventually if companies want to 'test the waters' on a new system they can at least put a new game on it instead of just using an older port.
