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AngryLittleAlchemist on 29 September 2017
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NATO said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

The way I see it, there is honestly very little the Switch can do in it's first year to guarantee good-great third party support. It's simply very challenging. I don't think that giving it a bit of a pass compared to the X or PS is that bad, which is why I would consider it more so good then great or bad. 

Also my position on indie games has changed greatly thanks to Sonic Mania(even though it's not an indie game) and the Switch, so i'm not sure how to feel about the dissaprovel of indie games as good support. Some stuff like Golf Story or Steamworld Dig 2 is pretty cool to see.

I dissapprove of the third party support a whole, because while some good titles are making their way over (where the fuck is risk of rain though?), there's a lot of crap, and a lot of games being ported over just for the sake of tapping into the new market for additional sales now that their titles sales have peaked on other systems.

As you say, it happens for every early device, but as I said above, in those cases the support isn't impressive either, it's just predictable.

X company porting Y game over to Z system, months to years after it launched on other platforms is not about being super nice to Z systems fans, or to show your support for Z system, regardless of what the developer/publisher says, it's about milking the most money out of an existing game.

When big developers come forward and say, WE FULLY SUPPORT Z SYSTEM AND LOOK FORWARD TO A LONG AND HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP WITH Z SYSTEMS CUSTOMER BASE, what they're actually saying is, hey we're going to release our games on your systems too, if we butter you up before hand you're more likely to buy our shit.

As the WiiU has shown, those words and promises don't mean shit unless the resulting game sells enough for the publisher/developer to make decent enough profit to continue to do so, those promises and words sure dissapear fast when the sales come in below expectation.

So my take is, I don't care what any publisher/developer says, I care what they do and how what they do changes over the years.

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

Ewww why do you and Hynad have the same avatar now? Gross.

Because I'm parodying this.

Also don't use "gross", it makes you sound like an entitled lefty.

I know what you're parodying but still. What does "gross" have to do with being on the left? Lol. 

I mean, I guess what you're saying makes sense.