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potato_hamster on 21 October 2018
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Jumpin said:
potato_hamster said:

Third party games like what? Multi-platform third party games with high production value that would be expensive to port? Because the argument is about  - "big games". Not the hundreds of third party shovel ware third party titles that flooded the Wii's library, that individually had mediocre to poor sales but when combined added up millions. Individual, high production, multi-platform titles, in general, never sold very well, and again, that's what this thread is about. Not Mario and Sonic at the Olympics or Boom Blox.

If you're going to say that a game like Red Dead Redemption 2 doesn't appeal to as many Nintendo fans as it does fans on other platforms, and thus it's unsurprising why these games aren't appearing on the Switch, then you're really not arguing against me, are you?

And it's a testament to how terrible the AAA third party devs are when their market researched formulaic games got stomped by smaller, yet more creative and experimental, studios who released "shovelware" type games expanding the scope of what a video game could be, and finding success; while the AAA studios fail with their big budgets and market researched formulas.

So in this very thread you have two groups of Nintendo fans:

One calling them idiots or having a bias against NIntendo for not bringing their top, high budget titles on Nintendo platforms and not giving their audience a chance to support these games with substantial sales, and another calling them idiots who are completely out of touch with Nintendo's audience and are foolish to think the games they aren't porting to Nintendo platforms wouldn't sell well on Nintendo platforms, and instead should observe the "creative, experimental, quirky" games that do sell better on Nintendo platforms, that you know, these third party publishers have historically made instead.

Like, you do realize games like Boom Blox are made by EA, right?

P.S. I'm sure EA felt super that they never bothered porting Assassin's creed to the Wii, but 50+ games like "Get Fit with Mel B",  "My horse and Me: Riding for Gold" combined to outsell what they projected Assassin's Creed would have.