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Lonely_Dolphin on 08 January 2018
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torok said:
Lonely_Dolphin said:
Not looking good for AAA 3rd party support on Switch! L.A. Noire Switch not even in the Top 30 for it's debut, Doom Switch already dropping, and Skyrim, the only AAA 3rd party I felt had a chance at a million, probably wont get there with that opening. I think it's safe to say Resident Evil wont do much either. We can only hope developer expectations were in check.

I wouldn't say that since those games are old re-releases. Skyrim was ported to basically everything. Doom was released a year ago. L.A. Noire is also pretty old. I would expect the same for RE.

Now, if games released in the same timeframe than the X1/PS4 version sell way less, than that could be a problem. I don't think it will affect the sales of the Switch, since they seem to depend mostly on Ninty's 1st party titles.

In order to get to the point of 3rd party parity between Switch and PS4/XB1, these testing the waters games have to meet their expectations. If they don't, then they're probably done, just like what happened on Wii U. Course I don't know what their expectations are exactly, but Zombi U sold a modest 500k or so on Wii U, yet that wasn't good enough for Ubisoft. Now we're on Switch, an actually successfully system, so I would think expectations are gonna be higher.

DonFerrari said:
Barkley said:
I hope that with the Switch release we enter a new era of pokemon, where minor dlc isn't sold at a $40 pricetag to people who already own the game. If it was anyone but pokemon there'd be an uproar. Ultra should have been sold as a $10 DLC pack to owners of sun/moon. But it's making them money and no one seems to care so I guess it'll carry on. xD

Hopefully it doesn't continue with Switch though because the games will be $60 on there.

Other companies would probably be pitched to the fork as anti-consumer and greedy.

Nah they wouldn't be because they already aren't. Paid online, season passes, loot boxes, etc., have become the norm with time. Though I think Pokemon got away with it from the get go, probably thanks to the novelty and being the first to do this sort of thing. I don't remember hearing "ugh I gotta pay full price again just to have Pikachu as my starter?" rather than "Ah cool I can have Pikachu as my starter just like Ash in the cartoon!" But I was a kid at the time so what do I know!