Miyamotoo said:
bigtakilla said:
People expected Nintendo themselves to support Wii U and they didn't do it. Expecting anything from third parties is ludicrous.
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You dont know what are you talking about, Wii U had two Batmans, two Assasins Creeds, two Call Of Dutys, Mass Effect 3, Deus EX, Need For Speed, Watch Dogs...so if Wii U had all those games actually it's totally ludicrous thinking that platform that will be more attractive for 3rd party developers (better sales and more popular platform, easier work and porting for Switch compared to Wii U, games in handhed mode also...), will not have any major 3rd party releases especially if we know that list of Switch partners and supporters is actually much stronger than Wii Us one.
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Yes but those games sold appallingly badly and they performed very poorly on the wii u hardware for most of those titles due to low cpu performance of the wii u. Some third party developers made good money by making low cost development titles for wii u of the right genre, dance, puzzle, platform etc and I think publishers will have a better grasp of the Switch market this time around. There seems to be arguments between no third party and lots of third party titles for Switch but surely the reality will be some 3rd party titles with a few AAA titles that are technically possible and sell such huge numbers on the major formats that there is still good money to be made on the conversion cost and reduced number sold.
There is also the way game sales work. If you have games available early on the release of a new console they often sell well, even poor titles as the person who purchased the console is looking to buy quite a few titles at the beginning so a console might sell with 3-4 extra games then it tapers off in games sold until the console has sold major numbers on the marketplace.
So it often makes sense to support a new console at launch and there may even be a legal requirement based on being provided a development kit but then publishers have to make a choice whether to continue to support which often they don't. You saw this with the wii u and many other consoles of the past.
However again I would state the Switch will get games from both Nintendo's portable game studios and full console studios and development teams plus it will get enhanced versions of android and ios games thanks to its arm processors. Those games will get decent controls and higher graphic fidelity plus its capable of easy conversions from xbox 360 and ps3. Also third party support is likely going to be great from Japan where the portable format is so important. I personally don't think it will get or need third party games from the pc, ps4 or xbox one and you wouldn't want them anyway because they will be rubbish versions.