DonFerrari on 30 May 2018
The_Liquid_Laser said:
RolStoppable said:
It's first and foremost about politics. AAA publishers want their business centered on PS and Xbox, so PC and Nintendo routinely get the short end of the stick. That's not going to change, so you are very wrong about Switch not missing out on many games.
The thing is that Switch doesn't need those games, so it's of little consequence that it won't get them. |
Yes, this!
But to elaborate some, big third parties don't want to compete with the little developers. So, they would prefer Sony and Microsoft make high powered consoles to make development costs go up. This drives the little guys away so that the big companies have less competition. Then Nintendo comes along and makes a console where every developer can succeed. Big companies don't want this at all, so they don't want to support Nintendo unless they absolutely have to in order to profit.
But the Switch is at an interesting point, because most Japanese companies are really more in the AA or less range, especially if you are measuring by development costs. So most Japanese companies are going to heavily back the Switch. This is doubly true because it is also the best selling console in Japan every week. The Japanese developers are going to back the Switch in a big way. Generation 9 is not going to be hardcore vs. casual, but instead East vs. West. Although smaller Western devs are going to back the Switch too, so I really think Gen 9 is going to landslide toward the Switch.
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