Nintendo considering more Wii U games for Switch, against straight ports, approach to IPs

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rjason12 said:

monocle_layton said:

Seriously. Forget the salty fans- if it means more people get to enjoy legendary games such as Mario Kart or Mario Maker, then so be it

Buy a Wii U, I'm allowed to be as salty as I want. Taking away from new games just to make stupid ports.

The concept that ports take away from new game development is fallacious, to be honest. A port requires much less time to create than a new game. Most of the work is already done for a port. That is why most ports are handled by small programming teams and not full development studios. It'd take a dozen ports to equal a full game in time, budget, and overall resources. 


@Topic I want Okami for the Switch. That would be so amazing, but unfortunatley Capcom owns the IP.