TruckOSaurus said:
outlawauron said:
It's all very presumptive. It could be like Fate/Extella on Switch and bomb just as badly in the West as it did in Japan. While the West can very much save a lot of these Switch multiplats, it's very fair to say that right now, the audience for these games isn't there in Japan.
I agree that I can see Switch potentially grabbing some of the Vita audience, but I don't see it taking away from PS4 anytime soon. If ryuzaki had a different username, he wouldn't be getting ganged up on.
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I don't think his username has anything to do with it, his post history is why it's hard to see anything he posts as anything but anti-Nintendo spin.
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But that's exactly I meant lol. They were ganging on him, because it was him, not because of what he was saying.
tbone51 said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Is it? I see it as just a short and quick way to say Switch owners. I think you're just reading too much in to that one...
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Nah, if it were you, rol, hell even vivster sure but its ryuzaki. Just look at his post in the thread. Its not the only ridiculous thing he said.
Switchers is meant as fanboy imo.
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I didn't realize it was intrepreted that way. I just see it as shorthand for Switch owners. I don't keep up with what's offensive or not lol.
Symbios63 said:
outlawauron said:
It's all very presumptive. It could be like Fate/Extella on Switch and bomb just as badly in the West as it did in Japan. While the West can very much save a lot of these Switch multiplats, it's very fair to say that right now, the audience for these games isn't there in Japan.
I agree that I can see Switch potentially grabbing some of the Vita audience, but I don't see it taking away from PS4 anytime soon. If ryuzaki had a different username, he wouldn't be getting ganged up on.
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I think we need real multiplats with same release date to get a good idea on "Will the switch be a good platform for those games in Japan?"
Fate/Extella was a late port and so was Disgaea, Dragon Quest Heroes and probably few more. NoA2 was a good test but considering sales distribution (which is not that awful for switch) as well as how bad the game did overall, no conclusion can be seriously drawn from the sales of this game IMO.
As you mentionned it is still early in the console life cycle and there still may be a decent growth for that kind of audience on switch (and yeah maybe it won't happen).
By the way, I don't think many people believe that the Gust kind of games will sell more on switch than PS4. But I do think that Switch might become a decent home for those (like I don't know : 2/3PS4, 1/3 Switch or 50/50).
Finally as I was the first to react to Ryusaki's post, I have to say it was not an attack, I was just pointing out that the VERY strong conclusions in his post seemed unlogical to me based on the example he used (as mentionned previously, if the game did 50k on PS4 30k on Vita and 4k on Switch, it would be a different story...)
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More cases will certainly help give a better picture. I don't think late ports can be completely discounted, because those same cases have done much better on other platforms. The only conclusion I draw is that the audience isn't there right now for Switch in Japan. It can change as the platforms attracts a more diverse userbase, but the type of market that these games appeal are super hardcore gamers who will buy these games religiously. The size of the userbase matters very little.
