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Soundwave on 06 February 2017
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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

Japanese and indie developers will support the Switch if it does decent no matter what. The only big Japanese games the 3DS doesn't get is Final Fantasy mainline because the majority of that fan base is on the Playstation and Metal Gear Solid which is probably a dead franchise now anyway. 

So two whole whopping franchises, one of which is now likely dead. The rest of the notable Japanese IP will be on Switch. 

Nintendo support is a given, I don't really sweat it too much. Hell might be better if Switch has a traditional 4-5 year cycle so we can get Switch 2 with better hardware sooner, but the same Nintendo games will come, I'll just be enjoying them on a better chip, which doesn't seem like any kind of downside for a real Nintendo fan since you're going to eventually have to buy the Switch successor anyway. 

Mhm. The words I used in my post, they mean something. They aren't just there to hit a higher word count.

Priority from Japanese developers and virtually no indie game developer who will ignore the platform.

The traditional 4-5 year cycle you talk about is the one of the N64, GC and Wii U. Three systems that had dreadful years 4 and 5.

So lets just cut out the bullshit console cycle excess, which is a shitty year 5 usually and usually half of the first year is shit too because there's the usual 6-7 months worth of drought. 

I'd be perfectly happy with a Switch that is just 4 years of solid releases wall to wall and then on the better hardware. Cut out all that bullshit period. 

As much as people bemoan the Wii U and all that, the fact is they're going to be able to play Zelda BoTW in 900p with the option of playing on the road anywhere they want in a month's time. That doesn't happen if the Wii U doesn't fail, other games like Mario Odyessy would likely be on the Wii U too and likely would be worse off for being so due to lesser hardware. 

At the end of the day this worked out better for consumers. Maybe not the result Nintendo wanted, but we are getting to play these games on better hardware than we would have otherwise and Nintendo still has plenty of money in the bank, so really who cares.