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curl-6 on 27 June 2023
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IcaroRibeiro said:
curl-6 said:

Mistakes doesn't have to mean Wii U level mistakes. Could be 3DS level mistakes where you can salvage it.

You need to give people incentives to upgrade. Would Switch have been as successful as it was out of the gate if all it's first and second year games were crossgen with 3DS?

Very likely yes, BOTW was a cross gen launch title after all. Switch also launched with no major Pokemon game, 3DS indeed had a mainline Pokemon schedule to release couple of months before Switch debut

People upgraded regardless

Many of the cross gen titles are titles that started being developed by the original hardware and end being released on the new hardware to increase the library. With Switch 2 being backwards compatible, there are no reasons to not release as many cross gen games as possible

Granted, some games are developed with a vision that cannot be fully executed on old hardware must be left behind. Such games take a bit of time to be developed and we probably aren't seen many of them being release at launch. The safest and most consumer friendly route is to release cords gen titles in the first and second years. On the first 2 years a successful console is likely to be capped by production and stocks anyway

On the third year with a healthier production lines Nintendo can start to unleash many of their very strong exclusives, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Splatoon, etc 

You're forgetting that there would be no games like BOTW on Switch if it was entirely crossgen with 3DS. Crossgen has limitations.

There's no point in them having an intentionally weak first two years when they can win big from day 1.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 27 June 2023