Level-5 CEO: All future main titles to be released for Switch, and more.

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NintendoPie said:

Train wreck said:

I don't see what difference producing games for a 23 million selling 3DS will change to a multi-million selling Switch in Japan. Switch development doesn't mean IP expansion. They really need to focus on westward expansion of their IPs as their current portfolio is in decline in Japan.

The Switch can easily outperform the 3DS in the West. There's your "westward expansion."

Not to mention, L5's IP decline in Japan is due to their own stupidity and mismanagement of those franchises, not due to whatever platform it's on.

The interviewer just asked the wrong question.  Level 5's Switch development was a given.  The more important one, to me, is what they do with their IPs going forward, especially in the west.  Westward expansion means more than just the Nintendo switch will sell more than the 3DS.  It requires investing in making their games more appealing to the west, akin to what Square Enix is doing with Dragon Quest XI by adding VA or expanding the budgets (development and advertising in Capcom's case with Monster Hunter World) and expanding platforms (which both did with Xbox and PC for MHW and PC for Dragon Quest).