Well, looks like next gen didn't kill Switch third party support

[Darc Requiem]

burninmylight said:

bowserthedog said:

None but its a completely different situation.  3rd party games were built from the ground up to run on the base xbox and ps4. Cross platforms games come to the Switch if they can run on the switch. With a more powerful pro model there will be a huge number of games that can now run on Switch. Sony and Microsoft also had policies against making exclusive games for their pro models which Nintendo has a history of not doing. The 3ds had no such policy.  Nate Drake on restera has already confirmed that there will be 3rd party games that come to the pro model and not the OG switch.

I have a hard time believing that any major/AAA third party games would come exclusively to a pro model that can't sell to 80+ million existing users. I know the wording is "3rd party games", which carries a very wide range, so that could just as easily mean obscure indy titles that made up the majority of N3DS exclusivity.

There is no way that games like Final Fantasy VII and Cyberpunk is going on it exclusively, except that Nintendo ensures publishers that the Switch 2 will also play them natively without any extra work necessary, and isn't that far off.

Nintendo and other publishers are the only ones that can confirm this. Not saying Nate Drake is wrong or spreading misinformation, but until an official source says it or shows it, or Nate Drake obtains some indisputable evidence, it's a rumor.

Any game exclusive to the Switch revision would be a game that can't run on the current Switch hardware. They are not cutting off 80 million potential customers unless the game simply won't run. Capcom tried to port RE7 to Switch. They couldn't get it to run well enough so it didn't get released. Unless you count the Japan only cloud version.

Last edited by Darc Requiem - on 10 March 2021