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Kakadu18 on 22 January 2022
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IcaroRibeiro said:
Qwark said:

Timed wouldn't make any sense, but full exclusive to Switch will. It's much cheaper to develop a game for the Switch than for the PS5 if it's a big franchise. They can even port it to pc, like they did with Monster Hunter Rise. This sounds like a more profitable approach. It's not only about revenue generated by a game, but also about the cost of a game. At this moment the costs of making a full fledged PS5 Xbox/PC version aside the Switch version might be to expensive. On PC the game will sell well regardless and Switch will do amazing as well.

PS5 will probably go on to sell a million units a year or less. Whilst Switch still has some 3 to 4 million years in Japan to look forward too. They can always make an OLED lite for Japan.

Just disclaimer, it's not more cheaper to develop to Switch. Cost development depends heavily on workforce, and games with expansive open worlds and high graphical fidelity will indeed be more costly, but you can make smaller budget games for PS5 just like most JP devs used to do on PS4. If anything, games are more costly to develop for Switch, as you need to spend more time (i.e. money) to optimize them to run in a less capable hardware, while on PS5 you can build almost anything and knows it will run fine and with 60 FPS 

That's said I totally think D12 will NOT be one of those games. From what I've saw they want DQ to finally breakthrough in West (look at the first promotional teaser, they are going for a bit more dark cinematography this time):

They also said this game is to define the next 10 years in future of the franchise so they are maybe not that concerned with financial returns, but to invest to fully expand the brand. It will be developed using Unreal Engine 5, I'm expecting something like Kingdom Hearts 3 level of graphical quality, but targeting PS5/Series specs. Enix probably saw DQ11 opened the doors and the next step if to invest on it massively like Capcom did with Monster Hunter, is so Multiplat (PS4/5, Xbox and Switch 2) is the best route for DQ. As this game is not likely to be released before 2024 maybe it can even be a launch title for Switch 2

If a game is developed from the ground up for the Switch it doesn't take more time to optimize.