Global software, week ending 18th Nov

[DonFerrari]

Lonely_Dolphin said:

torok said:

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:

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!

They aren't? EA is voted almost every year as the worst company in the world.

We have people all the time complaining about Capcom making re-releases of SF with different names to incorporate the DLCs in a new package (while still allowing you to just buy the DLC).

We have day in and day out complain about mtx, lootbox, etc..

We have had some cases of Nintendo games doing this (like you put pokemon, but also Fire Emblem) and Nintendo fans excused it.