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IcaroRibeiro on 12 September 2024
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curl-6 said:
IcaroRibeiro said:

The point is except by Arms all those games could run perfectly fine on Wii U. I'm sure a few of those titles, if not the majority of them, were at start developed with Wii U in mind and only during the development the focus shift to Switch since Wii U flopped hard 

A game like Octopath Travaler with 3D-HD can run really well on Switch, why should publishers not release this kind of games on base Switch anymore if they are able to run on base Switch? 

Of course, Switch 2 needs plenty of games that can't run on base Switch as well, but if the game can run is acceptable conditions on both it absolutely should be released on both 

It's a very odd mindset console gamers have that companies should stop supporting perfectly fine consoles and move forward. Can't see PC gamers demanding companies to release games that can't run on lower spec PCs just because they purchased fancy GPUs

Whether they could have run on Wii U or not is ultimately immaterial though, because the simple fact of the matter is that they didn't, therefore the new hardware justified its existence with plenty of games available nowhere else.

Again though, Switch/Wii U is not a good example of this phenomenon because there's not a big power leap there due to the change in form factor.

The reason for a hardware to exist is to play games, whether or not they are available elsewhere doesn't really mean a thing. If the library is there, the console justified its existence. What is pointless is a console with small library, like a PS Vita or a Wii U

Wii U to Switch is the good example to prove there is a loophole in your logic. You spent 300 USD to get a console that was running Wii U games in Nintendo Switch cards, exactly what you just said would piss you off if you were a PS4 owner

The absolute majority of developers don't even have money to create games to take full advantage of PS5 specs anyway, namely almost every Japanese developer 

I guess according to console owners they should stop releasing their games on PS5, since their games are still using PS4 graphics