I am speaking about gameplay hence the vids. Also, I played MHW in ESGS last week. Capcom has their own booth specifically for MH. So far I liked it and from the demo I played. It's Awesome. Seeing it also in a Big Screen is fantastic. 

Also, Can you please elaborate more on the mismanaged part?

My problem is that the developers werent cautious with the PS4, and that was a home console(Im talking about japan here, since the article is about japanese companies).I get if it were companies that dont traditionally develop for handhelds, but for these companies that do, I dont get why they didnt get in earlier.Nintendo handhelds(since Switch is part handheld) never sold badly, and developers that have games that are more portable centric, like Capcom with MH, are nowhere to be seen(MH XX port doesnt count.That game is a port of an port of an expansion.I lost count of how many times Capcom resold that game).Which, if you ask anyone here, would be a garantee that would sell well on the Switch.

Thats whats mindbogling.The part why its ok to go early to other consoles, or at least offer decent support, but not for the Switch, which would also be a safe bet.

I am speaking about gameplay hence the vids. Also, I played MHW in ESGS last week. Capcom has their own booth specifically for MH. So far I liked it and from the demo I played. It's Awesome. Seeing it also in a Big Screen is fantastic. 

Also, Can you please elaborate more on the mismanaged part?

I'm guessing the main issue the companies had there was that Nintendo was stressing the fact that the Switch wasn't going to replace 3DS or take its place, so a lot of them probably just expected the handheld market to remain mostly with the 3DS, instead of moving onto the Switch, at least initially. This is naturally just speculation, but that could very well have played a part in their thought process.

If thats the case, then they are dumber than forum dwellers.If we already knew that was PR talk by Nintendo by the time the first trailer was revealed(and mind you, many companies close to Nintendo, like Square and Capcom, already knew what the Switch was), then those same companies should have suspected as much.And as Rol said, the same happened to 3DS, so thats probably not the reason.

There's also the fact that the 3DS had a large, already established fanbase and over 20 million sold consoles when the Switch was coming out, so even if they knew the Switch was going to take its place, there's a difference between making games for a new console just out on the market and one with millions of already existing potential customers. One simply makes more sense in terms of business. 

Im not saying to make games from scratch, but rather just port ones that were already being done for the PS4 and XOne(Ones that are possible to do so, mind you), like Square and Bethesda are doing now.Ni No Kuni II could have worked easily on the Switch.Same for MH World.And as Im sure about many others titles that dont come to mind now.

And even if it was a gamble, for as small as it was(Its always a gamble for any console), why not take the shot?Do like Koei Tecmo did, and take the shot.The benefit far outweights the negatives.

What?????

It sold like 3.3 million.

The Wii U was selling well until Nintendo needed to pull the plug for Switch development. The Wii U is very similar to the Sega Saturn. The Saturn doing well in Japan but Sega pulled the plug because it was only doing well in Japan.