| src said:
Switch is underpowered by 2 gens at this point. The entire video game industry, tens of thousands of developers, aren't all going to say, lets all go back 8 years in tech, scale back all our games just to appease Japan. Especially in a time where technological advancement is increasing in pace, with more powerful chips needed for ray tracing, higher resolution, frame rate and the computing paradigm that is AR/VR. DS did more than the SW yet most global publishers focused on cutting edge tech to advance the medium and made a killing with online titles. |
Your DS argument is broken in two ways firstly it's only a portable not a hybrid so online to it was a non issue it wasn't competing against the platforms that relied on it and secondly selling 30m units did have an effect look at the number of games released on DS compared to its actual competitor PSP this even goes further when we look at the successors of these two platforms that further backs my point as DS set the precedent and 3DS followed through and built on it both times beating out more advance tech this is what's going to happen again with the NS successor the way Sony have surrendered the region. The irony of the PSP and Vita is that you're arguing world wide publishers but it was only the Japanese ones who gave them any kind of chance the world wide publishers avoided them like the plague.
The Japanese aren't going to scale back their games they'll flat out build on the NS as the lead platform and port versions for other platforms if need be until the successor arrives, Falcom are an example of this who have recently announced they'll focus on NS more with their in house development, this was a company whose President in the past was notoriously anti-Nintendo mind you the reality of their situation is the push for the west is a venture for a few and like many developers they don't have such resources to be able to sacrifice the home market in doing so.
