Rogerioandrade said:
My thoughts exactly. When I finished reading the article, I just thought .... what the heck? Did they forgot the 3ds? Did they forgot the games they did for the 3ds? The 3ds had very good third party support, specially Jrpgs and indie games, I just couldn´t believe that companies simply forgot about that device. To me, it would feel just natural that companies would move their projects for handheld games to the Switch |
Yes, yes they did.
To be fair, the major Japanese publishers and developers have for years shifting their focus from handhelds. A few like Square Enix, Level 5 (mainly their family friendly titles) and a couple that are more mid tier still support the 3DS with the occassional title or have a Vita title which is either later ported or released alongside a PS4 counterpart but their focus have shifted from handhelds, to more mobile games and console games due to the stronger home console markets outside of Japan. I mean compare the DS library and that of the 3DS in terms of volume and you can see how there was both a shift in terms of Western and Japanese third party support.
The Switch also was marketed completely differently from most other big consoles so even if developers were aware of it long before the public, you can see why after the failure of the Wii U and disappointing last years of the Wii that they would be hesistant on the system. It is foolish that they didn't have more then a few ports set up for the initial schedule but business executives are not all geniuses that know their industry or what will work.
