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Soundwave on 01 December 2018
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curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:

RE7 isn't really any prize anyway. The games you want are RE2 Remake and RE8. You want to have Kingdom Hearts 3 and FF7 Remake. You want to have Call of Duty series (even in Japan, this sells a lot). You want to have GTAV with online play. If a Pro model can accomodate that easily and make it so the dev doesn't have to jump through 3000 hoops to get the game running acceptably, that's probably worth doing. You don't need to have every game but you want to have some of these bigger IP. 

And we're probably at the point with chip tech where that's possible already, the Apple A12X has got to be a good 3-5x better than the current Switch processor, by 2020 a chip of that class will be a good deal cheaper. 

People don't buy Nintendo platforms for third party multiplats.

Switch isn't like other recent Nintendo platforms though. There are quite a few third party games on the Switch that are selling quite well, look at the NPD Switch top 10 software for last month, 6/10 are 3rd party games, two years into the product cycle. Fortnite is doing great on the Switch and getting its own hardware bundle. 

Kingdom Hearts 3, RE2 Remake, GTAV, Elder Scrolls VI, could all likely clear 1 million+ on the Switch/Pro. That's a decent foundation to build off of and something to grow from. It's not about getting into a pissing match with Sony/MS, but it's also acknowledging there is demand for experiences beyond just "Nintendo games" in the form factor the Switch offers. 

Switch definitely has a little more of the NES, SNES, even N64 DNA inside of it where people are open to more than just Nintendo software. Look at the eShop rankings too, there's always a healthy number of 3rd party titles in the top 20 all the time. 

There are definitely 3rd party multiplats I've bought on the Switch over PS4/XB1 because I want to be able to play those games on the go. I got Cities Skylines, FIFA, and Diablo, and even paid more for those on Switch because I can't exactly throw an XBox One X into my backpack and play it on a plane or train. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 01 December 2018