zorg1000 said:
DélioPT said:
Yes, Switch is doing very well, but what's helping it won't last forever.
So far it is and people want a Switch for that and of course, Zelda, Mario, MK 8D, etc, the same way they wanted motion gaming.
Both portability and 1st year line-up's effect won't last forever.
When PS5 and XB4 arrive, they will be the new consoles full of possibilities, new experiences in the years to come. And either Switch has what it takes to fight them in their promises, novelty and shiny new graphics or it will suffer.
The power gap might be big enough to make devs decide to focus their resources on the new machines instead of wasting them to port to Switch - or try to.
We can see it having a good library filled with Nintendo games, but good enough to fight new consoles, when most of Nintendo's games already reached most of it's potential consumers?...
Pricing is no longer a big factor to decide if transition will happen slower or faster. People bought the PS4 in droves despite the 400$ price tag.
Power is not a selling factor, per se, but it really is a great marketing tool! And at the end of they day, perception probably sells as many consoles as the actual games.
Also, have you forgotten how much criticismo XB1 got because the version it got of quite a few games weren't on par with the PS4 version?
And for devs, power makes all the difference.
"Also, Switch Is now being sold as 1 per Person and not 1 per Home. Which signal a more portable device..."
That's due to it's nature not the fact that it's being sold and perceived as a portable. It's the opposite.
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You keep using the same argument that Switch will suffer once PS5/XB4 release because devs wont be able to downport games to it.
Please name me a single Nintendo device that was successful because of multiplatform releases.
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If devs can't port to Switch newer games, how won't that hurt Switch's sales?
I don't know if multiplats is the best way to see it.
In other words, when Nintendo had the best - 3rd party support, it sold the most - or a lot (NES, SNES); when Sony had the best support, it also sold the most (every single console).
The exception to this was, obviously, the Wii.
I'm not saying that if Switch gets every multiplat, it will rain supreme. But if it doesn't it will be a very, very, hard road to the top. And so far, history shows that 1st party games aren't enough.
