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TheMisterManGuy on 04 September 2024
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Conina said:
TheMisterManGuy said:

I think what people miss about third parties on Nintendo Switch is that third parties have treated the system like a Nintendo handheld. Which is important considering the Switch is a hybrid. If you compare third party support on Switch to something like the Game Boy Advance or Nintendo DS, then the Switch isn't actually that different from those systems (it's also better in some areas as well).

No, the third parties have NOT treated the Switch asa Nintendo handheld. The support was/is MUCH better!

Let's have a look at the "good games" (MetaScore 75+)

GBA: 173 games

Nintendo DS: 209 games

3DS: 152 games

Switch: 959 games (so far), over 85% of them third party games

Eventually the Switch will have 5x of "good games" compared to the Nintendo DS, 6x of "good games" compared to the GBA.

The Switch has more "good" games because it benefits from the rise of indies, which means more developers making more games. Digital distribution wasn't really a thing on GBA or DS (at least until DSi), so indies didn't exist the same way they do now. And the 3DS suffered from a drop in AAA physical support so that brought it down compared to Switch.

If you compare the type of support the Switch has gotten vs. the GBA and DS, it's very similar in a lot of ways

* Tons of JRPGs

* Unique/quirky titles

* Ports of big console franchises (DS was getting yearly CoD games for a while)

* Re-releases of classic games

The Switch inherits the type of support that Nintendo handhelds had always gotten, and takes a little from their home consoles and other systems too (Switch inhereted a lot of PSP/PS Vita franchises like Disgeia and Atelier for example)