I would say the chances of that are exceedingly poor,” he said. “I can’t remember any game other than – there was a GTA made for the DS, which came out in 2009 – I’d be really surprised if they wasted their effort to port anything for Nintendo. I just think that Nintendo has wandered too far away from the mainstream for most of the publishers, so you’re just not getting mainstream games produced for Nintendo consoles- not ones made for other consoles, at any rate.”

           Thank you for letting us know that, Mr. Michael Pachter!

          Link:  https://mynintendonews.com/2016/10/31/pachter-believes-that-red-dead-redemption-2-arriving-on-nintendo-switch-is-extremely-unlikely/

Oh man, if Patcher didnt said that, I would have no idea!

I agree. By the end of the next year, we'll hear nothing from 3rd party devs about new games coming to the system. Nintendo went so far chasing the blue ocean, they won't get the majority of support from anyone else. But this is what they wanted. By 2020 Nintendo will be a mobile only company and that will be the end of Nintendo's story.

Obvious statement is obvious.

So now it's the most likely thing e-

I agree.

It's the path that they've chosen. Changing that path now would require serious effort and money, neither of which Nintendo seems keen on dedicating to western third party developers and publishers--though they will give money and attention to Japanese third party develops and publishers. If I were a Nintendo fan, I think I would be more annoyed about that discrepancy than anything.

Otherwise, many companies do just fine by sticking to a niche.

It's a bit different being a hardware manufacturer than simply a content provider, however. A niche company on iPhone, for example, potentially has access to all of iPhone's consumer base. When your entire platform is niche, on the other hand, you have to continually find ways to bring in new customers to make up for the ones you lose naturally over time. A lack of growth will eventually lead to contraction and brand erosion down the line.

Boy, Pachter should get himself an account here. He has a new thread about him just about every day lately!

Or maybe he already does have an account or 3 here...

Yeah keep hoping dude.

Not buying Switch for 3rd party games, i have a PS4 for that

It's from an interview, so he was probably answering a question.  What else should he do?

In that context, I think you should probably give more criticism to the publication that considered that answer newsworthy enough to have it's own article or the OP who posted pure speculation just because it came from Pachter.