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Spindel said:
Slownenberg said:

It's pretty crazy how insanely successful Switch is (will at worst be 3rd best selling system ever) given that MH Rise is literally the very first entirely third party AAA game that is actually built for the Switch instead of being some really old port or arriving a couple years late (DQXI) or somewhat old downgrade from current home systems. Literally, the only one, and Switch just passed its fourth birthday! Switch has blown away the competition and has a great library despite the fact that the big games in the library are essentially all first party and indies. Imagine if third parties actually put together a team or two each to build AAA games for a system that will very soon be over 100 million systems sold and is by far the hottest thing in the industry.

I’ve been around here since the Wii days, don’t get your hopes up. 

When it comes to Nintendo, other game studios are compleatley retarded and then blame their failure on Nintendo. 

No I wasn't saying third parties will. I've been playing Nintendo since the NES, and watched it go from the dominant third party systems to an afterthought no matter how well Nintendo systems sell. I fully expect third parties to continue to go purely for the most expensive pretty graphics games and thus allow Nintendo to continue to completely dominant the software scene on Nintendo systems. It just has always surprised me that third parties never came back to Nintendo systems. It's very plain that if they put the same effort into Nintendo systems as they do Sony/Microsoft they would be richly rewarded for it, but they never do, which MH Rise makes pretty clear as the first AAA third party game made from the ground up for the Switch coming just after Switch's fourth birthday.

I think third parties have just gotten it beaten into them that the only way to stand out is to not make good and interesting games, but to make games with the best graphics. And so they've created a market for exactly that on the other two systems. Lots of cookie cutter sequels with top notch graphics fill the top sellers lists on Sony/Microsoft, and they ignore Nintendo's massive success because third parties no longer know how to sell games that aren't just "hey look at our graphics".