Wait until E3 and the holiday numbers before making any doom and gloom calls

Every CoD could be ported.  Every.  Single. One.  None of them do anything complex at all.  It would require scaling but the games are not complex. 

And yeah, every Sports game could be ported and so could Overwatch.

And btw, so could Titanfall 2, for the same reason as CoD, regardless of any unprofessional snearing is tossed around about the game.  It's not complex.  Certainly no more than the original which had a perfectly good 360 version.

Well yeah they put many of the main CoD games on Wii and even a couple on DS despite one developer on MW said Wii could not even run the menu. Wii got MW2 and others.

Great thread Johnw1104. I think people need to shut up and wait until E3. You've addressed two really important issues. The last Nintendo direct covered a long period of 3DS releases so I think people can expect Nintendo to have minimal 3DS exposer at E3. They likely have a lot of big things in store for the Switch and I think people might be surprised to find out 3rd parties are likely going to be part of that. Which goes to your second really important point regarding NDA's. The CEO of Bethesda can't say what version the game is, EA is saying we'll talk another day regarding a Switch release for Battlefront II, and listings for Assassin's Creed: Osiris/Egypt were up and now I think they have been removed. Interestingly enough Assassin's Creed games are normally revealed around this time before E3. Out of Battlefront II or Assassin's Creed I think the later will be the most likely, I don't see why we can't have both because the concept of the Switch is a perfect fit for Battlefront II.


Personally I'll just say it. Wait till E3. If Nintendo executes their presentation right, they have the potential to bag it this year.

the OP is mostly right when looked at logically. Even if 3rd party devs WERE going to jump onto the Nintendo bandwagon again, they wouldn't do it immediately. They'd wait until the Switch had been out for a while and was proving that it was killing in sales.

also there sort of is a fallacy around here where people seem to believe that Nintendo DOESN'T have third parties at all- they certainly do when it has come to handhelds in pretty much every generation.

Particularly the big Japan developers will undoubtedly be pushing big software onto the Switch (Capcom, Square Enix, etc.). I think its fairly likely we see some other big stuff pop up too, I mean its a pretty positive sign that Bethesda is putting their FIRST ever title on a Nintendo console with SKyrim remastered in the Fall. and that EA is at least putting their newest Fifa game on the Switch.

Also even if there were some secret big third party announcements for the Switch from a few Western devs- we totally wouldn't hear about it until E3.

basically- I wouldn't honestly worry about 3rd party support (or the lackof) until the system has been out for a year. And at minimum until the E3 annoncement dust has settled.

also realism has to come into play. the Switch is partially a handheld console. Any game developed for the system or ported to the system needs to work equally as well (essentially) docked as it does in handheld mode. So some big Western games (like the new Red Dead and, say, GTA) may not realistically be releaseable on the Switch if they can't perform well in handheld mode (or cause the battery to drain in like 30 mins).

So I guess the point I'm making is A) its way too early to judge third party involvement OR for third parties to activiely decide to jump on board, B) Nintendo DOES certainly have 3rd party devs from the handheld angle (like Capcom with Monster Hunter), and C) its unrealistic to expect some portion of big Western open world games to release on the system if they're too draining for the system in handheld mode (which a big part might involve devs not wanting to put in massive work to optimize a port to the extent it would take to go from, say, Red Dead 2 playing on the PS4 to it playing on the haneheld mode of the Switch)

All i want is physical releases and i'll support those indy devs. otherwise will not even look at it. I know most can't afford to do it but this is where Nintendo should step in and public indy collections.

For someone like me, it does seem bare atm as I also like mainstream games.

We'll definitely have to wait until next E3 to know for sure. This E3, as well as this Holiday's sales numbers will give us some pretty strong hints.

The Switch wouldn't stray from the path of the wii u.

Digital content is already pushing it in a different direction. There's new games every week. 

That said I honestly didn't have that big of a problem with Wii U third party support. COD, Assassin's Creed, FIFA, Batman, Need For Speed, Tekken, etc. I'd take that on Switch. 

It kinda has already in a sense. In its first year, there's Zelda with its latest installment coveting one of the highest of praises that no other non-remastered game has had this gen, Splatoon 2 is likely to set at least Japan on fire like the original, then you have Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Odyssey, ARMS, FE Warriors, and, if it works out, Xenoblade 2. Then we have E3 where anything could happen. Wii U never had these types of titles until it was too late when it had barely any momentum. Plus, advertisement has helped the Switch, which included the Super Bowl commercial. When it came to the Wii U, there are still people out there who don't even know the console existed or knows what it does. Whether you care for that or not, that was one of the big factors to its failure.

Of course, having those big third party titles would certainly help. But if that's mainly the thing that is similar to the Wii U, then we can't say it's going down that path just yet. Who knows, Pokémon (something close to the main titles), Smash 4 enhanced port, etc. might come around. It's only been 1 and a half months since the Switch's release. If we are going to say launch numbers don't matter, then we should at least acknowledge that there is potential for more to come and we can't simply count out the Switch especially when it's so young.