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baloofarsan said:
AZWification said:

Ten seems like a pretty low number to me tbh.

Sorry! Should have posted the link. I thought it was quite common knowledge for people visiting VGChartz. 

http://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/Tie-Ratio/Global/

I knew about that page, I just remembered  the tie-ratios being a bit higher!



                
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A no brainer. Only a tiny minority of Mass Effect fans would opt to play a highly gimped version of the game. This is essentially a less dramatic wii vs 360/PS3 situation.

EA games I think we might see.
TitanFall remastered
Plants vs Zombies
Unraveled
Maybe StarWars Battlefront games
Need for Speed
Sports games

The Sims 

Original NS titles



Captain_Yuri said:
EA not supporting Nintendo? That is quite unprecedented!

EA is supporting as shown in that list of all the devs supporting the Switch but I guess Bioware themselves wont be, or at least just not this game.



lionpetercarmoo said:
oniyide said:

How do you figure that? 3DS did fine with just that

3DS does fine because its a handheld and little kids don't care about third party support.

Dude. Nintendo is for "little kids"? I thought we had moved past that.



no way that game could run on the switch.
In the really best case the switch will be as powerfull as an iphone 7. But i doubt it. Will most likely use a tegra x1 chip with some tweaks which is way inferior to the a10fusion chip and on a similar performance level then the wii u.



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baloofarsan said:

Third party support of any kind for Nintendo products has a big problem.
The average owner of any console is going to buy approximately ten games during one generation (~5 years).
For a Nintendo console there is a VERY big chance most people will buy:
2D Mario platformer, 3D Mario platformer, Mario Kart, Pokémon, Super Smash Bros, Zelda, Animal Crossing, Splatoon. That is already eight games.

Switch most probably also gets FIFA, CoD and Skylanders/Lego/Just Dance that could sell good numbers.
Other third party games will have a hard time getting big sales on a Nintendo console.

Really good point. In the Nintendo ecosystem, first-party games are highly desirable. Conversely, first-party games on PS4 and Xbox are much less attractive to consumers relative to the third party blockbusters. People buy PS4/XOne for Call of Duty, GTA, FIFA, Madden, Fallout, Watch Dogs, etc. Sure, they also buy those systems for Uncharted, Halo, and Gears, but it's a very different situation from Nintendo. 

It's hard for Nintendo to create a similar environment for third parties (read: "AAA" American and European third parties) on its systems. It would have to 1) make less desirable software; 2) beef up hardware to match third parties' specifications; and 3) spend advertising money showing off exclusives, timed exclusives, exclusive DLC, timed exclusive DLC, etc. 

All of that is playing to Nintendo's competitors' strengths and its own weaknesses. Instead, Nintendo should play to its own strengths, namely its software. Build a cheap, accessible system and turn out games like crazy. Look at the attach rates on WiiU games. Imagine if the cost for entry wasn't $350, but $200. And imagine if WiiU supported the entire 3DS library. That's what I hope for Switch. It will all come down to the price tag though, and whether Nintendo shuts down 3DS in March.



KLXVER said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Well Scorpio doesn`t release until like Q4 or something and MEA is due in Q1, so that would be harder. Besides, I`m not sure why he said Neo as is... WTF is a Neo? Does he mean the PS4 Pro? But I guess that means it`s got extra pixels or something like that there rather than just being the regular version.

That seems weird to me. Does he really think the PS4Pro is still called the PS4Neo?

Its pretty common for devs to still use code names. I knew many devs that still referred to the xbox 360 as "Xenon" because that's what it was called when they were introduced to it.



I know there's a lot of damage control going on here but, guys, Mass Effect is a huge franchise. Let's not act like it's a small IP.



Seeing how ME isn't really the default place to play ME games, it makes sense, though I don't mind it. That's not a series I was interested in anyways. I'm hoping some new interesting titles come to the Switch, and JRPGS. That too.



 

              

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