Global Hardware 8 December 2018 (Smash Week)

[Bofferbrauer2]

DonFerrari said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

As long as PS4 and XBO are getting ports, Switch will also get ports as the extra cost is more than outweighted by the extra sales. If the Next-Gen consoles release late next year, it would mean that support is guaranteed until at least 2023, at which point the Switch would be over 6 years old and sales should start to drop anyway by then. I'm expecting a successor for 2024-2025 anyway, so it wouldn't matter much in any which way.

When PS5/X2 get released ports for PS4 and X1 will drop within a year or two depending on the sales of the HW and SW. And the fact they are willing to go to the lower power PS4 because its 100M userbase (and X1 benefits because of close level of HW) will probably buy a lot of SW doesn't mean they will want to drop even further to get the lower sales of Switch on that same game (for the ones that are already selling good on Switch sure they may get it, but that isn't what we are talking here).

Switch already don't get most AAA 3rd party now, and won't get them on PS5/X2 gen with a Switch Pro even if Switch Pro gets same capacity of PS4/X1.

PS360 got ports until 2016, over 3 years after the release of this gen even though the PS4 was selling like hotcakes. They may get less ports, but the ports won't stop that early.

Switch is getting more and more ports. The publishers were wary after the colossal flop of the Wii U, and took a while before jumping on the Switch ship. EA for instance is reportingly porting the Frostbyte Engine to the Switch, thus allowing all their games to run there. Who would have expected a port of Mortal Kombat 11? The slew of Final Fantasy games announced during the Direct last year? The publishers know they missed the train early on and are now scrambling not to miss it again. In other words, more and more ports will come.

@bolded: That doesn't make much sense, and especially no business sense. Why would you port games for replaced hardware but not go a bit lower to garner clients of a console that's still selling, and most probably selling pretty well even by then? As long as games will be ported to the XBO, you can be damn sure they'll take the extra step to port to Switch too, as there's just more to gain there by then.