How many will be Nintendo's forecast for FY2019 ?

[DonFerrari]

Miyamotoo said:

DonFerrari said:

But RDR2, MHW and others AAA not releasing in Switch have nothing to do with they start development before the console was know. Ps4 and x1 received a lot of games that started development many years before they were know.

So even though Reggie wasn’t lying when saying rdr2 started before switch reveal using that as reason for not having a version is BS, the console was know for over 2 years before the game got finished so if it was feasible to release on switch they would from technical point. People put just to much on “scalability”.

Of Course it has, for instance RDR2 development started around 2 years before PS4/XB1 were released, while RDR2 development started around 6 years before Switch was released. Point is that they couldnt release RDR2 on Switch even if they wanted, because Switch was released only 2 years ago (if look launch of game than we talking 1.5 years after Switch launch) while game was in development for 7-8 years. Capcom also said that MHW was in development for XB1/PS4 years before Switch was even announced.

Saying that, RDR2 wouldnt come in any case on Switch.

How many games would you need me to list that took less than 2 years to be adequated to a system? How about all launch window games? All the crossgen? All games launched within 2 years of the machine release?

2 years is plenty of time to make a game still in development to work on a system if the system could do it. But RDR2 already run on low framerate and resolution to make it an easy port available to Switch. Sure they could cut a lot of stuff to make it fit the bill, but sometimes it won't work out. For all we hear on how easy Switch is to make ports to and how scalable engines are currently people just forget that there are ceilings and floors on what is possible. And if they were to make RDR2 work well on Switch, because it is considerably weaker, they would have to use it as base and then the others system would likely suffer.

So no, it isn't because the game started developing 6 years before Switch was revealed, The Last Guardian was similarly timed and still launched for PS4. If we go by how long ago RDR2 started development it was still in the time of PS360 and also plenty before PS4 and X1 got announced, but still it works on both.