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Kai_Mao on 26 March 2023
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Soundwave said:
Barozi said:

Those numbers are with Japan though where Xbox is almost non existent. Without Japan, those numbers would probably be closer to Xbox: 30%, PS: 55%, Nintendo: 15% (Guessed of course but obvious that PS and Nintendo would be down and Xbox up in return). Doesn't explain why major Japanese titles are skipping Switch (it's mostly for technical reasons as you already mentioned) but it's certainly a reason for major Western 3rd party games (hardware remains an issue of course).

Btw. RE4 Remake isn't available on Xbox One either. Smaller userbase than PS plus worse hardware.

It is on the Series S/X consoles though. 

If Nintendo got more 3rd party games their share would be bigger, if they could get a number similar to XBox with more titles, that would be a pretty decent chunk of the market for them. Japanese 3rd parties are important too. 

The hardware is the hiccup, it's not easy to create a platform that can bring ports of all major 3rd party titles when you can only go up to like 12-13 watts energy consumption. DLSS should help quite a bit though. 

My only worry is that third parties may not still release big games on the next Nintendo console. After thousands of games on Switch, after selling probably a billion units of software on a console of over 120 million units sold, after some third party successes, I wouldn’t put it past third parties to sorta snuff the successor even with the rumored power and specs.

If the Switch successor gets games like:

- Elden Ring

- modern RE games

- modern FF games

- Street Fighter VI

- Tekken 8

- all the Kingdom Hearts games

- MHW 2 (if that’s real)

- etc.

..then I would be more comfortable seeing third parties perform on the successor. I was hoping for games like KoFXV, Soulcalibur VI, etc. to come to Switch, but they didn’t for one reason or another.

Instead, the Switch sorta had test games like USFII and other old, old ports and remasters. The Switch wouldn’t even get games like Persona 5 Royal, Nier Automata, Monster Hunter Rise, etc., until later into the Switch’s life.

And going by the OP topic at hand, even GTA V hasn’t come to Switch at this point and there are no signs of that changing. I can’t even think it’s more than possible to see GTAV on the upcoming Switch successor even with all that rumored power and specs.

Nintendo and the Switch had to fend for themselves for the most part alongside indies and a few nice smaller original titles like Octopath Traveler and Mario+Rabbids from 2017-2019 (even though games like NMH3, The Witcher 3, Trials of Mana remake, etc., were announced at E3 2019). Not saying it wasn’t justified initially, it is what it is.