The Witcher 3 on Switch is a good port or not ?

[Ganoncrotch]

Pemalite said:

Ganoncrotch said:

While I agree that of course they COULD have done some of this, added in more power from the get go... it has to be considered that there is a version of the Switch out there right now which is the cheapest of the 3 currently available systems, between ps4, Switch and X1 there is only one system which can be gotten new for $200 and that fact alone means all of the "they could have added..." arguments pretty much all die a death, I think what's included in the Switch for the cost of the machine is very very fair, I highly doubt Nintendo are making any margin on those machines it's likely to be almost all from Software licensing.

If they ditched the Joycons, battery, display, dock and released a Switch TV on launch, they could have had a $150 or less pricepoint on launch, with more powerful hardware.

Besides I am pretty sure the Xbox One S/SAD has hit the $200 USD price points on a heap of different occasions before the Lite even dropped.

Either way, what has been done is done, not going to change with any what-if scenarios, but doesn't mean we can't critique a company's specific actions.

That's the thing though, if it dropped those features then the system would be an nvidia shield TV with a Nintendo logo on it, and I really can't imagine it would have been in anyway near as popular a machine as it is today where companies are wanting to port these kinda games onto it, companies will port to where the buzz and money is at, that's the number 1 reason for the switch getting these games, power is not a factor when it comes to the getting of money, only games which just wouldn't work from a control point of view would not be ported to Switch ever, things like WoW or a game which just needs Mouse/Keyboard play... maybe light gun games, classic ones like Time Crisis I mean, just stuff which can't work because of hardware.

Remove the portable factor and you're talking about a Switch which appeals primarily to just 19% of the users.