The point of the Switch for Nintendo was to stop splitting the userbase of its games and to get everyone piplelined into the same ecosystem, and cross-save/play can accomplish that.
Without it, GF and Nintendo execs have to answer some hard questions about whether they potentially release a third game to an aging console that already has millions and millions of users, or the newer, more advanced console that may be hot right now, but doesn't quite have the same base, but could use the help.
With it, no prob. Then it becomes like Apple's ecosystem. Apple doesn't care whether you buy an app or game on your iPhone or your iPad, as long as you buy it from the App Store. The devices are working in tandem with each other instead of duking it out in the same house.







