Japan Sales Week 49 Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - December 3-9, 2018

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colafitte said:

RolStoppable said:

Must be the language barrier. You initially said that "Switch is not allowing third parties to flourish," so that implied that third parties have tried, but failed. If your point was all along that third parties aren't spending big on Switch, then your original statement should have been "Third parties aren't allowing themselves to flourish on Switch."

Well, i said that because i felt it was implicit. "Switch as a hardware is not allowing third parties to flourish..." because whatever the reason. In my opinion, and is just that, my opinion, it's because the hardware limitations compared to PS4/XBO put a lot of pressure on 3rd parties to make different games that have to look similar to PS4/XBO relatives, so that's an added effort; Online service not being on par with the other two is a problem too; Nintendo first party games are so good, that other games can't receive the same attention, etc...

Then that's ultimately on third parties to make games on Switch. Nintendo can do all they can to court third parties, and, so far, they have with ports at least. Money hatting and all that won't work in the long-run.

Plus, the Switch is what it is. It could not release in 2017 with PS4/Xbone hardware while remaining portable at $300 due to tech not being feasible at that time. It is what it is. It's now up to third parties to create teams that will make Switch games. The Switch has an install base and momentum unlike the Wii U ever did.

 

Also pretty cool seeing the Labo kit #3 creep up the top 20 charts.