| Wright said: It doesn't matter, because it caused struggle within people. You think it might be clear that they were on board, but not everyone was as happy, especially when people didn't buy things from other developers like "unprecedent support" from EA in regards to the Nintendo Switch. People simply were cautious because there was no real reason to think Bethesda would carry on a great support, in lights of their comments afterwards. No previous history (sans two Wii game published back in 2008) also made it easier to think Bethesda could cop out at any point. The current mismanagement of EA as support goes on Switch hasn't surprised people, after all. People are giving Bethesda a free pass because, well, they've announced games. People don't care that it's a 2011 enhanced port that never made it into any Nintendo console despite the Nintendo consoles being more than capable of playing the game (you talk about the second Capcom game being easily on WiiU, but it's the same story with Skyrim). People don't care that Doom wasn't there because it is now. People don't care about Wolfenstein 2 coming later because it's now coming, even though it already came elsewhere. Bethesda saw potential after the initial response from the public, which is why they later ported Doom (a game that had already released), and they confirmed a launch of Wolfenstein 2, which takes more time than everything else because they clearly weren't thinking of porting it to Switch at first. Same story with The Evil Within 2, whose developer expressed interest on releasing on Switch but nothing is confirmed yet. Capcom might get hate, but it's a temperamental hate fueled on the fact that they were simply too cautious with the Switch, which led them to release ports rather than new games (ports, which is something Bethesda is releasing too). They've just said 2018 will have Capcom support, and people seem to carry with the hate. Outside Resident Evil 7 and Okami, I'm not sure what people were truly expecting from Capcom this year, unless the Switch audience really demands those two games desperatedly. And since the Switch audience is in love with games that were never released on Nintendo, regardless of age (see, Skyrim from 2011), Revelations 2 is coming to the Switch, so I dunno what people want at this point. |
No it does matter because we know Bethesda are straight talking when it comes to their plans you trying to tell us otherwise doesn't change that the main people who are cautious and all are the same mob who have questioned the Switch even to today, if the reveal has Skyrim in it then it's clear the game is on the platform, Bethesda also aren't EA.
No one is giving Bethesda a free pass you're trying a bit too hard to knock them, Skyrim Remastered is the same game on X1 and PS4 so is Doom and Wolfenstein all games built for platforms people were saying the gap is too big for multiplatform yet here we are with Bethesda shooting all of that down now look at Capcom's best effort USFIIHD a game that was out even before the original Skyrim is 10 quid else where while sold at full 50 quid on Switch while telling people this is a test while also not releasing Okami, Megaman and so on the effort is not even comparable. Fact is reason they've said 2018 has games coming is because Switch is too big for them to faff about with anymore and they've seen their competitors like Namco, Ubisoft, Koei etc... all do well with out the nonsensical test PR.
They're reaping what they've sown.
