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

[The_Liquid_Laser]

Mnementh said:

DonFerrari said:

Strange since some months ago there were people swearing that the cartridges weren't more expensive than BD (like couple dollars difference)

Dunno who said that. But actual developers and porters talk about the cartridges as problem. Here Abstraction Games about the port of Ark Survival to the Switch:

He continues: "Performance is not really the issue. The issue instead is in the size of carts. The 32GB carts are expensive, you shouldn't be wanting to do that. So we need to fit everything on 16GB, whereas the standard game on PS4 is much, much larger. It's a crazy ratio we're talking about."

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-03-21-how-they-got-ark-survival-evolved-working-on-switch

Thanks for the link.  That is an interesting article. 

I also found this statement interesting:
"Switch is not as powerful as a PS4 or Xbox One. Everyone knows that," Egas says. "Having said that, the difference isn't as big as the general perception would have you believe."

When you combine that idea with your quote above, then it seems like a lot more games are going to be ported to the Switch.  However the cost of 32GB carts needs to come down first.  But performance isn't the issue, and when the cost of carts comes down then it won't be much of an issue either.  Obviously, some games like RDR2 are just ginormous and will never come to Switch.  But he seems to indicate in that article that there are a lot of games in the 16GB-32GB size range that could be ported over.

Last edited by The_Liquid_Laser - on 26 October 2018