| curl-6 said: Personally, I feel like Prime 4 and Legends Z-A being crossgen makes logical sense, as the former needs to sell as much as it can to recoup its troubled development and was announced as a Switch 1 game already, and there's still a huge base of Switch 1 players who need something to play this holiday. |
Here's the thing with the two cross gen releases: (i) Metroid Prime 4 is an identical situation to BotW and Twilight Princess. It was promised for Nintendo Switch (and Wii (resp.)) all the way back in 2017 (and 2004 (resp.)), and Nintendo is following through. (That and I cannot imagine Retro is doing great financially, having not released an original title since Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and having scrapped a game that was in development for several years. The addition of the Switch 1 userbase probably helps the higher-ups and devs sleep at night.) (ii) Pokémon never releases exclusively on a system with a small installbase. Often Game Freak will hold off an extra year or two before releasing on a new Nintendo system. (And that's not even mentioning the fact that Legends Z-A is not a mainline entry, but a spinoff.)
That said, I don't anticipate we'll see many more cross gen releases besides Tomadachi Life and Rhythm Heaven.
