Pachter: "Nintendo should get rid of the Switch console and have only the Lite"

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Agente42 said:

RolStoppable said:

No, Pachter didn't make any statements on the longevity of Switch yet, but it's clear from the behavior of major AAA third party publishers that they had the expectation that Switch wouldn't be around for long; just think of EA and how quickly they moved to a Legacy Edition of FIFA for Switch. If Switch were to be a handheld only, no investor would ask third parties about home console games on Switch anymore, which in turn would make life easier for third parties.

What you can expect in the near future is the full return of the "next gen" moniker to refer to the PS5 and XSX|S only, so excluding Switch despite all three platforms belonging to the same generation. Pachter's statements are an attempt at another form of big segregation between Nintendo and Sony/Microsoft consoles, because what the game industry wants is that all these consoles are not considered to play in the same ballpark.

Analysis always has political content. In the Patcher situation, all the analyses are a political assertion. The AAA major players want to ignore Switch success, on a production scale. But the sales say otherwise, in an investor meeting, normally have anyone asking where the games for the Switch. The narrative only portable is a defensive movement against Switch AAA production. 

'Want to Ignore Switch Success'. 

That doesn't make any sense. That's like saying 'I want to ignore the PS2's success' back a few gens ago. Ignoring not just a viable market but a exploding one....

They didn't ignore the success of genre revivals: if they did stuff like Octopath, Resident Evil 7, and Crash New 4 wouldn't have been made. But whatever happened to the 'Publishers see the shiny new thing and want to be part of it' phenomenon that leads to battle royal, military shooter, etc saturation? 

Is the Switch not shiny enough?