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

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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.

The 80 million install base is irrelevant for the type of ports you mentioned. Because you could never bring those titles to the original Switch. Nate said the type of games you might expect to see would be games like Madden. However, I doubt that's the game he heard about because he doesn't want to give the name of the actual title. Likely at first there would only be a few games in the launch window but as the pro model gains a larger install base you will see more titles come.  This is of coarse my opinion. I believe the main reason Nintendo is doing this model is so that it can gain revenue from more 3rd party ports. Its not like their own games wouldn't continue to sell well on the OG switch.