Nuvendil said:
Ah but the significant upgrade problem being faced by Sony and MS is not currently an issue for Nintendo. By 2022 much less 2023 the tech will be there for them to make a very, very substantial jump within the same form factor and see very strong real world performance gains. So while they need to wait until then, they don't have to wait as long past then. Sony and MS are locked into a long gen because they need the next jump to be significant and diminishing returns has made that harder and harder. The problem Nintendo is facing is that they have positioned themselves as a hybrid. Whether people on this forum acknowledge that, that's what it is marketed as, that's what the majority of people use it as. And part of that deal is it being strong enough to be serviceable in tv mode. And the Switch is. Barely. And a part of that strategy is Nintendo is pursuing renewed third party support from companies who have no interested in the handheld space and are looking at the Switch as part of their console strategy. These aspects of the Switch and Nintendo's strategy mean that what happens in the console space matters. If the PS5 comes out and puts the Switch impossibly behind the market standard to the point third party support evaporates and perception of the Switch brand begins to decay, they will need to move on. The Switch and Nintendo do. not. operate. in. a. vacuum. And while they can do a hell of a lot of work with their internal studios and they are beefing their studios up, they cannot exist as an island unto themselves. The Switch will be supported for as long as they feel it is viable and advisable. Then the support will stop. They would love it to be 7 or 8 years. But they certainly won't press that if it can't. And I do not believe it will. |
Switch will only have more and more third party support. It won't have the big AAA but it's already not having the big majority of them, just a few. I really don't think the Switch is selling this well because of that but in a big part is because of Mario Odyssey and Zelda, which are groundbreaking quality games playable on a portable device. As usual, Switch is new so games will get a little better over time and we might have a Switch pro or whatever to had some fps or make every game 1080p or something. We have to take in count the third party support Nintendo receives from their successful Home consoles and their handheld devices. Devs were scared to jump on the Switch but seeing how it's doing now and how well games of every genre are selling, it's a given there is a lot of teams that haven't put out a game on it yet that are currently working for their piece of cake.
And once PS5/Xbox incertnamehere comes out, it will be again a pretty expensive platform to work on vs a cheap console with an a huge install base. So I don't think studios like Ubisoft, Capcom, Level-5, Namco, etc will give up on the Switch to take risks on the new consoles. They will probably do both on a smaller scale on switch, of course. It would be crazy for studios like Ubisoft that reaches (eventually) 2 million copies on a Rabbid game but don't support it anymore while it's making almost as much as big AAA game lol.
But also, Nintendo only have 1 system to (fully) support since pretty much mid 2017. We will see more games coming from them and I really don't think after 2018 we will ever see a month with only a port.
Only time will tell. But even if in the worst case scenario the Switch gets left out, look at the 3DS. Just because it'S cheap it's doing amazing sales. Switch will have killer pricing and bundles for the holidays.
