Miyamotoo said:
But it does, Wolfenstein 2 announcement is announcement of new game, not announcement of port/remaster of some old game, fact that will come later to Switch doesnt change that fact. I don't remember that about first 5m, but actually it's pretty important how you start, if you have very successful 1st year probably you have very successful platform, it's much easier to continue momentum than need to save platform. No next year we will not have those games, but we will definatly have some other Nintendo heavy hitters. 3rd parties are not that important for Nintendo platform, Nintendo games are what is selling Nintendo hardware, neither Wii or 3DS didnt had exatly strong 3rd party support, and even late 3rd party ports are OK for Switch beacuse they offer something that PS4/XB1 dont, full handheld play. I understand what you wrote, and you wrote they didnt show any Q1 game, even its fact that Spring is also in Q1, and they showed Kirby like Spring game. And again, focus was on games that will be released next few months, not next 6 months. There is more than enuf time to later anancue Q1/Spring games. |
The problem with ports is that, when they arrive, if not really close to the original release date, most of the sales have been done.
When Wolfenstein 2 arrives the game will have released on 2 platforms for at least 2 months and has seen an holiday period.
I say at least 2 months, but it's probably a few more months.
It is important how you start, but history showed that that it isn't enough. What matters is how move along.
And in that regard, yes, Switch has had a great year (great, innovative concept + several system sellers). But that is 2017.
We know very little of 2018; we have no real idea if Switch's success is enough to warrant better 3rd party support next year and beyond.
Actually, the hardest tests (if 3rd party games can sell well) are yet to arrive: Fifa 18, NBA 18, Skyrim, Doom.
If these games sell well enough you can bet that instead of ports we will get multiports, but if sales aren't that great (not the same as bad), we might just keep getting ports after ports.
I know there's time to announce more games, i just find it strange that they chose to start announcing games that are coming in (at least) late March and not in January, February.
It's the order of reveals that i found odd.
It's nothing big, just... strange.
