| HintHRO said: I get nothing but Wii vibes from the commercials showing happy people with their motion controls and lack of third party support. They could've named the system Wii U2. |
I get more of a 3DS/Vita/Wii U vibe, meaning that it will get franchises and games that Japanese publishers believe willl sell well in the Japanese market but won't get games that depend heavily on the western market to succeed -- at least until Nintendo (or another company) has proven that there's a legit market for western 3rd parties on the Switch.
With a typical Sony/Microsoft console, western 3rd parties know exactly the types of people that are going to buy it and what games they'll enjoy but with the Switch, they are going in blind because they have largely ignored the handheld market (and Nintendo platforms in general since the Wii) so they have no idea how the Switch audience will respond to traditional western 3rd party AAA games. Japanese 3rd party publishers on the other hand have a good idea what games will sell well on the Switch because it'll practically be the only game in town in Japan when you consider the declining console market over there and the fact that the 3DS and Vita are on their way out. For them, if the series traditoinally sells well in Japan, it will sell well on the Switch. It's why I understand why Final Fantasy XV isn't being ported to the Switch because the series now depends a lot more on the western market than the Japanese market to succeed. SE isn't going to take the risk of investing sizable funds and resources to port FFXV over to a platform when they don't know if the game's target market will be there. They already got burned with the XB1 version of FFXV doing that considering most of the XB1 userbase just want to play FPS, racing, sports and sandbox games.
