Faelco on 27 February 2017
| Asriel said: I don't see how this restricts the hybrid nature of Switch. Surely the point of a hybrid is that it can do both 'either' as well as 'and'? Either portable or home, or portable and home. Partially though I guess that's down to Nintendo positioning the Switch as a home console you can take on the go, which is a message I expect will change later this year. |
By "limit the hybrid interest", I mean the "start your game on your TV and finish it on the go". If more games are exclusive to a mode, the nice transition between TV and handheld is useless. You could have a handheld library, and a home console library, but without being able to play one library on the other mode. Wasn't that the point of the Switch?
Obviously this answers the question "what about touchscreen in TV mode?" and should be only about touchscreen. But this possibility exists for any dev. I always thought that quite a lot of developers would do minimal work for the TV mode and just display the handheld game on the TV. But they can do even more if they really don't want to put any work in the Switch version of a game.
