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Norion on 18 May 2025
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Hardstuck-Platinum said:
Norion said:

No it wouldn't have. It would've sold some Wii U's but almost everyone would've just played it on the PS3 or 360 that they already owned or later on got it for the PS4, Xbox One or PC. Do you think GTA 6 is far more valuable than Mario, Zelda, Animal Crossing, Splatoon and Smash Bros and the rest of Nintendo's franchises combined? Cause if the PS5 can survive without all of those with no issue the Switch 2 obviously doesn't need a single game when it has all of that and a lot of third party support.

Also you don't need to be a Nintendo fan to recognize that the Switch 2 is in a good position, just simple analysis is enough to figure that out.

It's not in a good position though. The only big AAA third party game it's getting that wasn't on PS4/Xbone is Borderlands 4 I think, and that's worrying. Why is there no Dragon age Veilguard, dragons dogma 2, monster hunter wilds etc? 

Also, Yes GTA 6 is more important than all of those first party Switch 2 games, because you don't need to buy a Switch 2 to play those franchises. Of course you'll need one to play the newest versions, but I think most people will just stick with their old Switch to play them. That's the feeling I'm getting from the reception to Switch 2. With GTA 6, I'm seeing a major urgency to get it. they drop a trailer and it breaks records in terms of viewership. I've never seen anything like this before in media entertainment.

It's also gonna get Star Wars Outlaws this year and the other two parts of the FF7 Remake trilogy are strongly implied to be planned for it. With how much stuff has been cross-gen it doesn't make sense to discount those games since it clearly matters that stuff like SF6 is coming to it and it's gonna have a much better start third party wise than the Switch so I guess that was in an even worse position by your logic.

And for the bolded come on man that's absurd. The Mario franchise alone is bigger than the entire GTA franchise and it's not close. The number of Mario games sold on Switch is higher than how much GTA V has sold and that's just one single platform while GTA V has been on a lot. Mario Kart World will sell a lot of systems like how the next 3D Mario will and that's just two out of countless Mario games it'll get. Add all the other series I mentioned and it's not even in the same universe in terms of impact.

Last edited by Norion - on 18 May 2025