curl-6 said:
Why would third parties, who can barely be bothered making games for the entire Switch userbase, spend the time and resources to port a game that can only be played on a small subset of that userbase? You might get one or two examples, like Xenoblade on the New 3DS, but a Switch Pro would not significantly improve third party support, and even if it did the kind of games that would require stronger hardware aren't what is selling the Switch, so making new Switch hardware for the purpose of chasing third party ports pretty much a pointless exercise. The whole mindset of "Nintendo needs AAA third party support to succeed" has been proven wrong by the Switch's success thus far.
Possible, but at this point highly unlikely. |
I'm not remotely arguing that Nintendo needs third party. I'm arguing that Nintendo looks likely to make a Pro model for the Switch whether it needs it or not, that as the 9th gen goes on that eventually the meager offerings Nintendo gets from 3rd parties will only be ported to the Pro model, and that all of this is fine and you all need to adjust to the reality that will be the Switch Pro because if you really don't care at all about it I doubt it will affect you that much beyond a few games Nintendo makes to take advantage of it and to support it. Stop shoving your narrative onto me, I'm not a "Nintendo needs AAA 3rd party support" guy, I'm just guessing what I think might happen. I'm not trying to pretend I make Nintendo's business decisions for them, or that I begin to understand their logic (I don't most of the time), but I think they're making a Switch Pro and I'm going to buy it if they do, and probably the 3rd parties, whether Nintendo "needs them" or not, are going to make Switch Pro exclusive ports. If I'm wrong and there's no Switch Pro, I'd still bet on the Switch passing Wii. I've never thought otherwise, even when the hybrid console was just a rumor.