Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition announced for Nintendo Switch

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Sephiran said:

h2ohno said:

I think The Last of Us Part 1 would have gone over better if it was Naughty Dog getting used to the new hardware to really knock it out of the park with their first new game the way the 2014 version was for the development of Uncharted 4 on the PS4.  Instead, it just led to another remaster of the 2nd game with no new game from the studio so much as announced 4 years into the generation.  That's ultimately the difference between the rerelease situation on Sony and Nintendo platforms.  Nintendo fans have every reason to believe Nintendo's rereleases are there to give development teams time to finish and perfect new games, while many Playstation fans feel their rereleases are taking the place of new games and are being worked on instead of new games.

Yes, also the fact that given that PS5 gets every major third party game at release, they have no need to pad out their releases with ports and remasters. The fact that most games of any major budget will skip Switch just means that Nintendo is fully dependant on ports and remasters to have regular releases coming to Switch.

That's not it, at least not entirely.  The Switch has had enough 3rd party support that there's never been a problem of needing something to play the way there was in the early days of the Wii U or at the end of the lifecycles of the earlier Nintendo home consoles.  The issue is about keeping the core fans happy, giving people outside the core fanbase a reason to buy your console over the other choices, and keeping the mood good.  Both Sony and Microsoft are failing at accomplishing this in this generation, while Nintendo has finally figured out how to do it right after various bungles in every generation since the SNES, even during the Wii's success.  Third party multiplats are good to have, but they are not the reason people love their consoles or even buy them most of the time.