Dark Souls Switch delayed to Summer 2018

[ryuzaki57]

nemo37 said:

ryuzaki57 said:
With the Valkyria, DQ delays and now this, it's clear that Switch versions are giving trouble to 3rd party developers/publishers pretty much everywhere. That Bamco's comment on Dark Souls is further evidence that it's difficult to have a PS4-based game run in handheld mode. Longer development means higher cost, and sales prospects for 3rd party games aren't that brilliant seeing COMG and recent records of Switch 3rd software sales, so ultimately that's lower margin for those companies. It will be interesting to see how they will react in 6 months/1 year.

Finally, I don't think your argument regarding sales of third-party titles hold up. We have had games like Attack on Titan 2 that have done fairly well on Switch, and even some late ports like Xenoverse 2. The problem right now is that we have very few major third-party titles that have had simultaneous releases with Switch. We know very little about how such titles would perform on the system.

AoT2 Switch has sold 47K so far, which is less than the 1st week sales of AoT1 Vita alone. Not sure that that can be labeled as "well". 

Pavolink said:  To what recent records are you refering?

Most 3rd party games on Switch have been struggling to reach 50K sold in MC/Famitsu, not even hitting 10K for many of them. I doubt that publishers are impressed.

zippy said: Not seen you in ages around these parts, wonder why you chose to show up today. 

It's true I've been busy in the review section lately. But I'm always here for the interesting debates.