Studios like Panic Button, Virtuos, Saber, etc are gonna be in a new golden age with the release of Switch 2, they'll be so many games to port they'll never have to worry about their next gig.
Slownenberg said:
Expect to see much more third party support for big games on Switch 2 as compared to Switch.
After the Wii U, third parties were not starting working on games when Switch came out, so it took years before Switch starting getting even some major third party games, and despite Switch's popularity third parties were extremely slow to decide to start supporting it so support barely picked up throughout the Switch's life. With Switch 2 there are probably numerous big third party games already in development or being ported over as we speak. Plus Microsoft keeps signaling they are essentially starting to go third party and we should see them supporting Switch 2 with some games.
Also Switch 2 should be a bit more capable of handling current console games than Switch was for last gen console games, and add to that likely a bunch of PS4/XB1 ports will be coming Switch 2's way as well, which of course includes current gen games since many console games the past few years were cross gen.
I wouldn't be surprised if within the first two years Switch 2 gets more AAA third party support than Switch had in its entire lifetime. |
While I agree with most of this, I wouldn't say support for Switch 1 "barely picked up", if you compare 2017 to 2019-2022 the difference is huge.