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potato_hamster on 05 February 2019
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Miyamotoo said:
potato_hamster said:

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.


Who are these "some people" that this is a "game changer" for? If those "some people" are "people who already own a Nintendo Switch" then it really doesn't matter is it.

It's not a long list because it's a Nintendo console that doesn't have very good third party support. You can look at these handful of titles, most of which haven't sold amazing, and old ports and think "this is great third party support", but I don't, and more importantly, I don't think a potential Switch buyer looks at games like Fortnite, Diablo 3, Skyrim, etc come out for Switch, and if they're not already inclined to buy one, they're not going to buy one now for the likes of MK 11. Sure, maybe there will be a bunch more old ports coming out of the wood work and appearing on Switch because it can't be that expensive to do so, but I don't think if say, EA announces the Mass Effect trilogy, or Dragon's Age: Inquisition for the Switch I don't think that's going to make a measurable impact in Switch sales for the year.

As for your lists, I have to take your word that those lists are accurate. Based on your track record, I'm not willing to do that. But even assuming it's true, I just don't think there are millions of prospective buyers that looks at that list and thinks "with that upcoming games list, my mind is made up. I'm buying a Switch". Again, by all means, if you believe that's a convincing games list to you to say "the Switch has great third party support", "or, look at all of these old ports and indies! Switch third party support is increasing!", that's fine. But that's not increasing in a way I think matters,  and I can pretty much guarantee it doesn't matter your average prospective Switch buyer either because the Switch isn't competing against the PS3 and Xbox 360, is it?