Can we agree Nintendo should go third party, now?

[burninmylight]

BraLoD said:

I think that's the first time I was necrobumped xD
People took it as an attack, as expected, even as the OP never pointed to the Switch failing, at all.
Anyway, I was indeed wrong at the time, as I didn't imagine it would be such a success.
But I still find it badly priced, and it being successful just made it even easier for Nintendo.
It's all still the same, you are paying like a PS4 to play worse ports of some games and great Nintendo games, and the game prices, like the hardware, just never drops, making it quite a pricey system, as expected.

I still stand by my side of it tho, btw.

But yeah, Nintendo is making a shit ton of money with it which I didn't see coming, so no reason for them to stop anytime soon.

Some ports, like Alien: Isolation and Dragon Quest XI are the definitive way to play those games on console. And gamers have shown for decades that they're willing to accept a lesser experience from a hardware capability perspective for the mobility and convenience of handheld gaming. Don't compare a seven-year old console with a foot in its grave to a three-year old handheld at or near the top of its bell curve.

I'll give you the game prices though. Outside of indies, Ubisoft and some mid-tier Japanese publishers, you're lucky to get more than 50 percent off on games in the eShop, and if it's on cart, it gets snatched up with the hurry-upness. I was just shopping for PS4 games for a friend the other day was floored at the prices of some of its greatest hits - I got my PS3 well after the PS4 was in its heyday, so I chalked those prices up to a near-dead system's last hurrah. PS4, despite my earlier comment about a foot in the grave, still has plenty of life in the rest of its body. Gaming on other consoles is cheaper, and it's hard to argue otherwise.