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curl-6 on 23 September 2025
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firebush03 said:
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.

Yeah Nintendo would piss off a lot of people if they told those who'd been waiting for Prime 4 since it was announced for Switch 1 over eight years ago that "lol, you have to buy a Switch 2 to play it, tough luck."

And yeah, I expect that any first party game announced from here on will be a Switch 2 exclusive, with Tomodachi Life or Rhythm Heaven (whichever comes out last) being the swan song for Switch 1 Nintendo support.