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curl-6 on 13 March 2024
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Norion said:
curl-6 said:

Hogwarts Legacy on Switch was massively cut down graphically, yet it still sold really well despite arriving 9 months late. I'm not saying pretty graphics can't be a selling point, but clearly they are not the be-all end-all, otherwise the Switch would've been another Wii U. 

And you can have good graphics these days without spending a triple-A budget anyway; look at AA titles like Hellblade, Plague Tale, Lies of P, Hifi Rush, It Takes Two, etc.

The amount it sold on Switch is small compared to PC and PS5/Series X/S so that's not a good argument against what I said. My point is that reining in budgets is an issue for AAA game makers like Square since spectacle is a big part of the appeal of those games thus doing so would lead to a decline in sales. Do you not agree with that?

Actually sales of the Switch version of Hogwarts have been outpacing the Xbox version despite Switch being massively worse graphically. If high end graphics really were the main selling point, the Switch version would have flopped.

If you're primarily selling your games on spectacle to the point where you struggle to make your money back, then maybe you should rethink your strategy.