Why is the Switch still not getting big games from 3rd parties? October edition

[Mnementh]

potato_hamster said:

Mnementh said:

I fall in the second group. Just look at Ubisoft. They did it. They try to cater to the audience. It doesn't always work out, but it does sometimes. Just Dance was created by Ubisoft for the Wii audience. And it worked out big time, it was a really big franchise. Only that Nintendo themself was playing at the next garden and gave up on motion gaming eroded the userbase for Just Dance over time.

Switch has a much more classical userbase, but not one that is after the last graphical things (obviously). So games that sell over technical feats - mostly action games and FPS - do sell badly on Switch. That's why it is mind-boggling that Bethesda tries themself at shooters on Switch so much. Doom and Wolfenstein do sell badly on Switch, but Bethesda is unphased. I think a manger is fan of Switch. Or Bethesda wants to be the one company that sells games to the Switch audience. That might work out.

But Switch has a userbase for Platformers, Metroidvanias, Brawlers, RPGs and adventures. Therefore pretty much everything in that categories is ported to Switch and sells great. Only this forum mostly cares about shooters and action-games. Therefore it seems Switch has bad 3rd-party support, while it actually gets pretty decent support, only in different genres.

Yeah, besides that AssCreed is Ubi not EA. Just wanted to say.

Ubisoft arem't the only ones that tried to cater to the audience. EA actually put a lot of effort into it especially in the Wii days. Not only did they come out with new IPs like Boom Blox, but they actually tried to adapt their sports games to make them more appealing to Wii's audence with the "all-play" series. They tired a whole bunch of shit. Some of it stuck, most of it was a bust. They even took a lot of it to the Wii U before giving up entirely, and now their approach to Switch is as safe as safe can be.

And yes, total egg on my face about the Asssassin's creed series.

Yes, you're right, EA tried actually on Wii. And with BoomBlox being a million seller I wouldn't say it was without success.

On Switch already are experiments underway. Go Vacation (Namco), Sports Party (Ubi), Hyper Sports R (Konami) for instance trying to get again at the motion sport games. Civilization shunned so far consoles but tries with Switch.