By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
rapsuperstar31 on 28 March 2023
Edit Thread
shikamaru317 said:
rapsuperstar31 said:

American studios have been shunning Nintendo for the past 25+ years and some Japanese studios.  When was the last time EA consistently released sports games on Nintendo's hardware, the biggest game of all time Grand Theft Auto 5 has never been on a Nintendo console.  Do you hear Nintendo complaining or do they innovate and strive to succeed their own way?  120 million units sold, and 3rd parties are still ignoring the Switch.  In just over 2 years both the PS5 and Xbox Series already have more EA games than the Switch has gotten.

That is a slightly different situation. The main reason many AAA western devs who focus on high graphics games don't port to Switch is mostly because Switch's specs are now about 2 generations outdated compared to home consoles. In order to make a game with intensive graphics run on Switch, a studio has to go through a pretty lengthy and expensive porting process that involves creating lower quality assets and making other downgrades to get the game to run on Switch. Some western publishers just don't see it as worth it, some of them have already trialed certain games on Switch and those just didn't sell enough for the publisher to find justification for a long and expensive porting process. Switch 2 could be a major boon for western 3rd party support on Switch, because it's specs will be much closer to Xbox Series S than Switch 1's specs were to base Xbox One. Porting to Switch 2 will be easier between that and DLSS support.

With these Japanese games that skip Xbox though, the difficult porting argument doesn't fly, those same games are already on PS5 which is very close in specs to Xbox Series X, and some of them are also on PC, so lower quality assets from PC low settings already exist which can be used on Series S if necessary. We know that some Japanese games sell fairly well on Xbox, and porting to Xbox is fairly easy, and yet we have quite a few Japanese devs still skipping Xbox even though Xbox Series lifetime sales in Japan are already more than 3x Xbox One sales.

Then we have games like FF7 Remake, which was supposed to be a 1 year timed exclusive, and yet it has almost been 3 years since the game released and still no Xbox port. Xbox has already suggested they have some proof that Sont is making exclusivity deals with certain Japanese publishers like Square Enix in order to hurt Xbox. If they do indeed have that evidence, that would be proof that Sony is breaking Japanese antitrust laws, you can't just go around paying off developers and publishers to skip releasing on your closest competitor's system.

I can see that with the last few Nintendo consoles, but the Switch can clearly run the ps3/360 version of Grand Theft Auto 5 no problem, and 2 I said the past 25 years.  The Gamecube was just as powerful as the original Xbox and PS2, the Xbox was a brand new brand and it still got almost double the amount of games the Gamecube got.