Report: Japanese Third Parties Unconvinced Of The Switch Are Now Scrambling

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Nautilus said:

Darashiva said:

I'm guessing the main issue the companies had there was that Nintendo was stressing the fact that the Switch wasn't going to replace 3DS or take its place, so a lot of them probably just expected the handheld market to remain mostly with the 3DS, instead of moving onto the Switch, at least initially. This is naturally just speculation, but that could very well have played a part in their thought process.

If thats the case, then they are dumber than forum dwellers.If we already knew that was PR talk by Nintendo by the time the first trailer was revealed(and mind you, many companies close to Nintendo, like Square and Capcom, already knew what the Switch was), then those same companies should have suspected as much.And as Rol said, the same happened to 3DS, so thats probably not the reason.

I remember that some western 3rd-party (smaller ones) talking about they were excited to develop for a handheld, while at the same time Nintendo told everyone that Switch is a home console. So developers got it. I doubt the japanese devs were less smart.