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curl-6 on 30 August 2024
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Chrkeller said:
curl-6 said:

Sales will make a bigger difference than power overall.

The Wii U missed out on many PS3/360 games it could have handled because the sales weren't there, whereas the Switch got many ports across a much, much bigger power gap cos the sales justified it.

Sure, but the Xbox isn't exactly killing sales nut gets 99% the same 3rd party support as the ps5...  because porting from one to the other is super easy. 

I get your point that sales matter, which is fair.  But so is ease of porting.  The Xbox will continue getting games like RE9 because porting is super easy.

The switch 2's hardware absolutely will be a major factor in how many games it gets from 3rd party.  

Power is certainly a significant factor, sales potential is just a bigger one in my view. In terms of power specs, there's no way in hell Hogwarts Legacy should be on Switch, but the sales potential was there, so the devs crammed an elephant into a hatchback to make it happen.

Meanwhile, quite a few Japanese games that could have run on Xbox One and Xbox Series skipped those systems because they didn't think the audience was there.