Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition announced for Switch

[pokoko]

Mnementh said:

pokoko said:

I never said anything about most of that.  I only pointed out a truth.

In fact, I don't understand why people act as if "port" is intrinsically a negative in the first place.  A port can be better, worse, or equal.  It's simply a technical description.

I don't care if a game is given that label or not.

I care, because I'm a programmer. Porting means taking a completed software and adapt it to a new platform. An unreleased game isn't completed.

And here in the gaming sales context this distinction is also important. An port of an old game usually sells less than the original release. A multiplat-release has not the same restriction (although it may perform better on some platforms and worse on others, but a port of an already released game always gets a sales-penalty from the start). So let it seem as if this labeling is unimportant is wrong. In the context of these forums - gaming sales - the distinction is indeed very important.

It's not wrong.  The sales penalty you described is because of a later release date, not the act of porting itself.

Bayonetta on PS3 is a port of the 360 version developed by Platinum but it released at the same time and was the better selling version.