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Miyamotoo on 05 February 2019
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potato_hamster said:
Miyamotoo said:

That's not exactly true, games like Fortnite, Skyrim, Doom, Wolfenstein, Diablo 3, Dark Souls, Mortal Kombat 11, Civ VI, main Final Fantasy games (despite they are old ports)...are big deal for some people.

Also, 3rd party support is improving with time, but seems you fail to see that, comparision below clearly shows that.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=238576&page=1

Let's see. popular game, old port, old port, old port, old port, fighting game, RTS, old port.

Besides that, not exactly a long list, and the vast majority of it are old ports, many of which have little replay value. That's exactly my point. Like great, The Switch is the best option in 2019 to play games you could have played on your Xbox 360 years ago. How is this going to move as many consoles as Pokemon and Smash Bros did last year?

As for your post, you took a snippet of announced games from two different years, compared the number (many of which, again, are old ports), and decided that was enough to say that "third party support was increasing". Sorry man, that's now things actually work. If you want to pretend that any of that list makes the Switch a much more lucrative buy in 2019 to your average prospective buyer when titles like Smash Bros, Mario Odyssey, BotW, Mario Kart etc. weren't enough to compel a purchase. Well, you're welcome to think that, but I won't,

But point is that some of those old ports in full handheld mode is game changer for some people.

Its not long list because Switch is still less than 2 years on market. Games like Fortnite, Diablo 3, Skyrim, CiV 6, Mortal Kombat 11 have great reply value, while FF games for instance are very long games. We are just at beginning of February, ofcourse that we probably don't know even 20% of Switch 3rd party games that will be released in 2019., in most cases 3rd party games for Switch were announced around 3 months before launch. Offcourse that not single 3rd party game can move consoles like biggest Nintendo IPs can, but point is that Switch is getting some great and diverse 3rd party games (despite good part of them are old ports), and that Switch 3rd party support is incrasing in any case.

I very clearly compared announced Switch games for 2019. and games that were announced in same period for 2018. and that comparison clearly shows that in same time period 2019. lineup of announced games was around 3-4x stronger than was in same period for 2018. And, yes that list clearly also shows increasing 3rd party support. Thats lists clearly show that 2019. has much more announced games (including 3rd party) than 2018. had in same time period, and that was my point, but you can twist that whatever you want.