Game Developers Conference (GDC) shows increased interest in Switch.

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pokoko said:

JEMC said:

"5% Developers still think the Switch will sell less Worldwide than Wii U." - They're either trolling or are extremely out of touch with reality.

Good results for Switch and its games. Having a bit more than 1/3 of the devs interested in the platform is a good sign, and that 3/4 of its games perform good or very good is even better.

Xbox numbers surprise me. I thought they would be higher than Switch and almost on par with PS4 given how both share a lot of multiplats.

And good numbers for PC!

 

The bad news is that 1 out of 10 upcoming games will have loot boxes.

Xbox numbers are higher than the Switch in terms of concrete support.  I don't really know what to make of the "interested" category.  

I wouldn't worry that much about the "loot box" percentage.  Probably a lot of them are mobile developers.

The Xbox has been on the market what, 3 more years than Switch? Of course it has to have more concrete support. The opposite would be very alarming for MSoft.

As for interested, who knows. Maybe they're thinking on the game after the next game as the OP said. Or maybe it's that they wanted to develop for it but they were waiting to see if it was a fad or not and how third party software sells on the platform. We'll see how are those numbers next year.

And I really, really hope those games with loot boxes are mostly mobile. But I doubt it.

Chazore said:

JEMC said:

"5% Developers still think the Switch will sell less Worldwide than Wii U." - They're either trolling or are extremely out of touch with reality.

Good results for Switch and its games. Having a bit more than 1/3 of the devs interested in the platform is a good sign, and that 3/4 of its games perform good or very good is even better.

Xbox numbers surprise me. I thought they would be higher than Switch and almost on par with PS4 given how both share a lot of multiplats.

And good numbers for PC!

 

The bad news is that 1 out of 10 upcoming games will have loot boxes.

I'm starting to wonder if they have legit interest in PC for actual gaming, or general interest in PC because of the low development costs and free beta testers. 

Have you ever tried to be positive? You know, just once every now and then. You would life longer .

Jokes aside, they only care about which platform they'll be able to launch their games and get the most profit with less expenses, and PC is a good place for that. That some games are alarmingly bad is a side effect of that, but having some criteria and doing some research before buying make them only a nuisance.