VGChartz Gap Charts November 2019 Discussion Thread

[zorg1000]

curl-6 said:

zorg1000 said:

Activision-Blizzard support has gotten progressively better and seems to give it pretty good support now. 2017 was just Skylanders then 2018 had Crash N. Sane & Diablo 3 and 2019 had Spyro Reignited, CTR Nitro-Fueled & Overwatch. Basically just missing CoD.

Activision output in general has declined significantly in the last few years, some of their teams went from developing original titles to being just CoD support teams and they have cut back on the amount of outsourced/published titles compared to previous generations.

They are basically just CoD+Crash/Spyro now.

As for the Blizzard side you might say those are just years old ports but those are also the only Blizzard games released on any console since Starcraft 64 in 2000 so kind of hard to imagine support being any better.

Not having Call of Duty of any sort is a missed opportunity though, even if the console titles cant be ported for whatever reason, not having CoD Mobile on it doesnt make much sense. Maybe it will come later.

In a world where Wii got 4 COD ports from PS3/360, I just don't buy for a second that PS4/Xbone COD games can't be brought to Switch, where the power gap is considerably smaller.

That's why I said "for whatever reason"

Those games most likely could be downported to Switch but the reason probably has more to do with the teams not having the time/resources to add another platform to the mix, especially one that needs special concessions.

We have already heard about the CoD cycle being tough on the current teams with Sledgehammer getting kicked off from being the main studio behind CoD 2020 and Treyarch having to jump in and take over which is probably going cause a domino effect with Infinty Ward having to scramble to get CoD 2021 out in time.

In order to get the main series on Switch it would probably have to be an outsourced late port and at that point the question is, "will CoD 2018 sell well on Switch when CoD 2019 is about to be or already on other consoles?"

If they dont expect it to sell at least a few million than they probably don't think its worth the opportunity cost.