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superchunk on 22 January 2017
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VAMatt said:
zorg1000 said:

That's not how that works at all. 80 games being in development as of January 2017 does not mean it will only have 80 games by the end of 2019.

AAA titles may take 3+ years to make but things like ports, remasters, most indie games, most Japanese games, most kid/family games are developed in much less time than 3 years.

Actually, that is basically how it works.  I could have worded my post a bit better.  More like this - 80 games in development now means the library is going to be devoid of big games, and likely far behing the XB1 and PS4 in number of small games at the 3 year mark.  

superchunk said:

Please tell me you don't actually believe that nonsense?

Yes, I definitely believe it.  

Nautilus said:

Wut?He sadi that there are over 80 titles in development AT THE MOMENT.What it means that at this moment, those are the titles comming to the Switch, not those are all titles comming to it.Nothing stops developers from porting/developing more games to it.Not to mention that there are many games that take less than three games to develop.

Technically you are correct.  But, in reality, not all of the 80 games in development will make it to completion.  

That 80 number is certainly the best one Nintendo could justify putting forth.  So, while its true that some indy games can come to market in less than 3 years, I think it is safe to say that no AAA or AA games that could possibly make it on to Switch (say, 2018's CoD or AC games) were left out of that number.  So, I'm comfortable with my statement, if we exclude the smallest independent games.  I suppose there could be a bunch of 2 hour long 8-bit style games.  

 

We only know about 50% of the 80 games currently in devleopment. So this talk about a disparity between PS4/XB1 and NS is absurd as you have no idea if any of the yearly 3rd party titles and/or bigger games are part of that list. You also are not accounting for what 3rd parties will learn about porting to NS between now and E3 (when I expect most/all of these and more games to be announced). 

E3 will be interesting this year as it will definitely spell out NS for at least 2017 and 2018. Next years E3 will be the final say in what to expect NS to continually recieve through its life.