Bofferbrauer2 said:
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.
Yes sure, Fifa and other similar games. But go and look at the sale of most of these ports or even their relevance.
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.
Mortal Kombat is a fighting game (one that have done good sales in the past on Nintendo console as well), final fantasy ports of old games not XV. If you really expect games of the caliber of RDR2 on Switch in the future you are for a down.
@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.
Because even now when X1 is relevant HW the Switch port is hard to do and cut a lot of corners. So when X1 is the one that needs a lot of cuts made to get made the Switch will need much more cuts and it may become ludicrous. There were Fifas being ported to PS2 while not being ported for Wii just to remind you.
They will make ports to consoles where they will profit enough.
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