Regarding Switch third party support: Developers don't care about power

[vivster]

TheMisterManGuy said:

vivster said:

And I will continue to dismiss the Switch as yet another first party-centric Nintendo console, thank you. Probably because it is, as evidenced by the lack of pretty much every current gen multiplatform AAA game.

Do you think the big publishers ditch all the potential money on a successful platform like the Switch for fun? What is your reasoning for the lack of AAA games if it's apparently so easy to port to?

Read the actual post. Nowhere did I say that the Switch will get every AAA game, nor did I say all AAA games will be easily converted to it. Quite the opposite really. Most of the more ambitious AAA games obviously aren't coming to Switch because you can shrink those graphics down to tablet hardware. However, we will see a lot more HD remasters, mid-budget games, exclusives, and less demanding AAA titles come to the Switch going forward. Yes, we won't be playing the latest Assasin's Creed on the Switch for obvious reasons, but there's still plenty of PS4 and Xbox One content that could be ported over with ease. 

You might want to read your own thread title, but to me it sounds like you're saying developers and even more so publishers care very much about power. And it's not like only a few or even half of all AAA are not coming to the Switch. The vast majority isn't coming to the Switch, which is quite telling where the publisher's priorities are and what they "care" about. You are saying that there will be remasters of older games, which again, sounds like people do care about power since they can only afford to port old games.

I am saying the vast majority of current gen AAA games are not coming the Switch because developers and publishers care very much about power. Do you have anything that suggests the opposite like your thread title claims?

That smaller devs do not care much about the Switch's power because their games don't require it is not really a revelation.