Dulfite said:
I suspect only games that would never have come to Switch without cloud would do the cloud route. If they can make it native to Switch, I would think they would as with cloud they are crippling sales potential by eliminating those that either don't have good internet or prefer to play out of the house with no internet. I'd be out if that was what 3rd parties did regardless, but that doesn't make business sense. For instance, MH Rise is coming natively, and has a userbase of 60-70 million to sell to, whereas if it came via cloud I'd imagine many tens of millions of potential buyers wouldn't be able to get it. Therefore, I like to think if the games are coming via cloud only, then that is literally the only way that developer was able to financially bring the game to Switch and we are therefore getting games we wouldn't have had in the first place (which is always a good thing). |
Yer i get it for Switch, the odd game that would not be possible unless it was gimped. But if this becomes the norm for say Switch 2, then 3rd parties will be even more lazier than they are now. Just load up a PC build on the cloud and add switch control support then we will never see a native game again. For me this is bad because I like to collect my games. I hardly play anything out of the box these days till years later.
I would much rather Nintendo focus on making the next gen switch something that is capable of running native 1080p in portable mode using DLSS to upscale it to 4k then go down the cloud path.
