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Jumpin said:
Hardstuck-Platinum said:

Then why do all the third party developers have the PS5 as their main platform for development? Are the publishers just too stupid to know who's market leader and don't know what platform to develop their games for?

Publishers are neither stupid nor do they all have PS5 as their main platform. In fact, there are significantly more games available for Nintendo Switch than PS5.

https://www.mobygames.com/platform/playstation-5/ - PS5 has 3,318 games

https://www.mobygames.com/platform/switch/- Nintendo Switch has 12,168 games

And VGChartz recently posted a story of one of Playstation's longtime exclusive publishers backing off exclusivity: https://www.vgchartz.com/article/463501/square-enix-we-cant-be-exclusive-to-a-single-platform/

But, none of your red herrings are relevant. What is relevant is that Nintendo Switch currently holds, not just a leading, but a majority 58.4% marketshare and are therefore the market leader - https://www.vgchartz.com/

IT'S NOT A RED HERRING. It's a valid point. I can't believe you just took the total number of games on PS5 and Switch and tried to use that to disprove my point. Switch has been out for 3.5 years more. Of course it will have more, geez. You also posted a link about exclusivity, when i never said anything about exclusivity. I was only talking about lead platforms for development. I