| adisababa said: Well, it's almost certain now that Nintendo won't be getting good third-party support from the BIG western studios this year and probably never, since games from now on will only demand more power, it'll either be old ports like Dark Souls and South Park or pixel art indies which are just meh. Also seeing that the Switch barely makes it out alive when running Doom (612p 20fps??) doesn't really help its third-party, AAA game capable case. Definitely an underwhelming start to the second year. RIP Switch 3rd party support |
Lack of western AAA third-party games does not mean that the system will not have any third-party support. This year already looks more robust than last year with overall regards to th ird-party support and Nintendo themselves have AAA exclusives to fill the gaps left by the Western devs (provided they maintain a solid release schedule). Also, dismissing Indies (which btw consist of more than just games with pixel graphics) and older ports (which as we have seen this gen with XOne and PS4 and most r ecently with Switch have an audience in the mar ketplace) does not really help your argument as these are all examples of third-party games and these games also have an audience.
I recall in a post last year you somewhat dismissed Switch because it did not have popular Western FPS titles and in some of your predictions you seemed to insinuate that the system would falter because of it during the holidays. Yet that did not happen, which seems to indicate that gamers are fine with the types of games coming on Switch. Heavily graphical games (be they FPS, third-person, or whatever else) certainly have a place in the industry and there are two console platforms that cater to those users. Yet the success of other types of games and portable systems like Switch indicate that people also value games that focus on other things outside of graphics. Yes the Switch does not have the graphical capabilities of the other two systems which means that it will not be the choice platform for graphically intensive AAA western games, but the other two systems do not have the flexibility of Switch nor do they have the exclusives that Nintendo will bring to the Switch. Ultimately players win here, because they have multiple platforms that offer different things.
