Ganoncrotch said:
Miyamotoo said:
First, some people need to realise that Switch is a quite different compared to XB1/PS4 in plenty of aspects, going from hybrid concept, to power and architecture, time of release and install base (that's rapidly shrinking when we talking to XB1, and next year probably Switch will have bigger install base), and point that most of 3rd party didnt released their big 3rd party games on Nintendo platform from SNES. So, only with that on mind its very obvious why Switch still dont have strong 3rd party support when we talking about big 3rd party games, and why most likely never will have strong 3rd party support when we talking about big 3rd party games.
With all that on mind, its obvious that Switch is not best suited for current gen big 3rd party games, that doent mean that Switch will not have any current gen big 3rd party game, it means that people need to have realistic expectations when we talking about big 3rd party games on Switch,
Saying that, actually Switch for now has solid and positive 3rd party support for Nintendo platform, for instance we never before (or very long ago) had games like Skyrim, Doom, Wolf2, Diablo, CiV, mainline Final Fantasy games (even if we talk about last gens ports)..
Also, some people need to realise that big 3rd party games takes time for development, all this years big 3rd party games were way back in development before it was very obvious that Switch will be successful platform with strong install base (IMO that become obvious at beginning of this year), for instance RDR2 is something like 7 years in development, so that's definitely one of reasons why Switch still dont have some big 3rd party games.
Second reason is that current size/availability/costs of Switch carts are problem for some 3rd parties, especially when we talk about big 3rd party games that would need 32GB or even 64GB carts, Vern (know insider from Resetera that knows plenty inside informations when comes to 3rd party project for Switch) said that he know that some unannounced 3rd party games are delayed because problem of size/availability/costs of carts, but luckily, WSJ reported that Switch will receive 64GB cards in 2019. and logically in same time we can expect that prices for 32GB and lower sizes will go down also.
So with all that on mind, Switch continue getting increased 3rd party support and I expecting more big 3rd party games that we had this year in any case.
I actually made a thread before, that Switch will have best 3rd party support than any Nintendo platform after SNES, and I still stand behind that. |
Great post, at the bolded though... GBA had a lot of those games :D Doom, Doom 2, Wolfenstein, Final Fantasy's mainline and tactics. No elder scrolls though! But still... the much loved
Was on there.
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