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RolStoppable said: What this means in the big picture is that Nintendo's trajectory of absorbing Sony's third party support - a trend that started with the DS in generation 7 - is bound to continue. More and more Japanese developers and publishers are running out of options to refrain from developing for a Nintendo console. |
A lot of Japanese third party devs have put their hopes in capturing Western audiences instead of going over to Nintendo. Games like Dark Souls, Neir: Automata, Nioh, and Monster Hunter are all going multiplatform, or at least getting a PC release. But you're talking about AA devs leaving Sony's PS2 and heading to Nintendo's DS in the mid 2000s right? At this point I think almost all the relevant AA devs have already switched to Nintendo. Obviously developers/publishers like Falcom, Namco Bandai, From Software, and Sega aren't going to jump ship to the Switch. Those companies are all aiming for AAA graphics, and western audiences. They can do AAA graphics better on PS4/PC than they can Switch, and the audience of those two platforms will be bigger than Switch. So what third party support is Nintendo going to steal from Sony?
I mean I would love to see Nintendo return to the glory days of the SNES, but I just don't see them getting all that Japanese third party support when the PS4/PC offer bigger audiences.
Edit: Ok, Falcom isn't exactly a AAA developer so maybe they will switch to Switch.
