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Miyamotoo on 11 December 2017
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MrRoops said:
Miyamotoo said:

Switch is around 9 months on market and still has instal base less than 10m, of course that not single one 3rd party game didnt cross a million. PS4 and XB1 are different because 3rd party games are actually on first place system seller games for those platforms.

Multiplatform port don't need to sell more than 1m in less than 10 months or to be sell on pair like on PS4 to be considered success or to make profit to dev. And like I already wrote, most of 3rd parties that released games on Switch commented how they are satisfied about sales of those games and promised actually strong support.

Yahh I don't put much weight behind pr statements.

It doesn't matter what PS/xb is or is not to 3rd party games, if switch is to get legit 3rd party support they are competing with Playstation and Xbox for that support.  For the resources of 3rd parties, and the question is quickly raised aren't they better spent on PS/Xb.  

Sales will dictate the future support, and it's just not looking all roses.  

Well there is no point to say that they are satisfied with sales of game if they are not, and to promise much stronger support if they dont intend to do that, and we already seeing how Capcom in just last 2 weeks announced plenty of Mega Man games and Street Fighter Collection and they today again said they are planning to port even more games to Switch, same thing said SQ and Bandai Namco said they are working on 3 Switch exclusives for 2018.

Again, multiplatform ports don't need to sell more than 1m in less than 10 months or to be sell on pair like on PS4 to be considered success or to make profit to dev. And of course that regardless games, some devs would love to release its game on 3 successful platforms instead of 2 successful platforms, beacuse they know they sell more games and make more profit in that way. And we already seeing that Switch is getting more and more 3rd party games, next year Switch will have much more 3rd party announcements than we had this year.

Popularity, sales and install base of Switch and sales of those 3rd party games on Switch are dictate support, and currently 3rd party games on Switch are doing good and Switch itself is doing great, and that's why companies are promising much stronger support.

Last edited by Miyamotoo - on 11 December 2017