A year? OK, a waulity port with extended features, improved art assets and new controllers.

I work as a programmer, not games though. But the main difference is, that games include a lot of art (which does not need to be remade for a port) and gets a lot more testing than normal software. So if it takes a year: 9 months the bosses write papers and have meetings to finally decide they do it, 1 month for programming, 2 months for testing. I actually know this from my work, if I hear the first time about a project it would've plenty of time, if we get the go the deadline is nearly upon us.

New games are different though. Making concepts and finalizing your goals alone takes probably around a year for a big game (although this part is low on manpower). This is a creative process.

I dunno about Bethesda? Based on which metric? Your personal preferences?

Bethesda wasn't on my map before they entered the Switch. I got Doom out of interest how it compares to classical Doom (it's completely different, not only because of graphics, but gameplay is much faster) and Skyrim because I assumed it might appeal to me (it does).

But going after overall sales, revenue, number of releases or stuff like that, than obviously EA, Ubisoft, Activision and Warner all matter more than Bethesda.

With Western developers, their issue is probably trying to get the games to run properly on the Switch. Though if a game also comes to iOS, there's no excuse for it to not be on the Switch. With Japanese developers, many of them were playing it safe and continuing work on Nintendo 3DS, PS Vita and PS4. They weren't sue if the Switch would be a success. Now that it is, they're going to be doing more Switch games. I think we'll see more major third party games in 2019. However, I have a feeling that we're going to see games that really push the limits of the base PS4 and Xbox One and those games will not be coming to the Switch.

which of those games are BIG?

Maybe..... Dragon Quest XI, but is not the same as it was and the first one is a remastered NOT been in a Nintendo home/handled before.

As many don't want to admit it, when the next ps5/xbox 2 will release, the power gap will increase even more, By that time, most of the AAA games will not be ported to the switch.

Where are the support of WB with other games than the Lego games? Why not the arkham return collection or a downgrade port of Arkham Knight, Shadow of Mordor?

Where is the support of activision? EA? Real Support of Crapcom? why not a really downgrade version of RE7? the difference will be more than the ones that RE4 Gamecube and Ps2 shared?

What do you mean by "joke user"?

Thanks for this compilation of data. I must admit, that numbers look better than I expected. Especially that L.A. Noire sold more than on Xbox and half of the PS4-number is a surprise to me. Remember VGC tracks physical and L.A. Noire needed a ridiculous download to play on Switch.

Anyways, your point stands: big third-party games mostly sell worse on Switch. We haven't seen much that started on equal conditions so far (same time of release and stuff like that), so it might be a bit better in the future. But we'll see.

Indies by the way can also produce a port much faster. Technical porting is no big problem, but in a big company resources must be allocated for this. Before the managers decide on that they probably meet ten times and discuss that. And then the allocated team must finish their previous project. At an indie this hirarchy is much smaller (if present at all).

And that is actually wrong for Switch, except those really big AAA-productions.

A really big amount of games can be relatively easily ported.  Including many japanese releases, the vast majority of indie games and more. Other games like Destiny 2, Final Fantasy XV or Battlefront 2 probably can't be ported at all or only with more or less massive downgrades.

But Switch dowsn't have that very special architecture Nintendos last consoles had nor is it inaccessible by any means.

I think this year the Japanese companies will show massive support for switch. The switch is so successfull in Japan it will be hard for them to ignore it. With western developer we may get a few surprises and some games like rabbids but sadly nothing major, hope im wrong

Toooo much work to port it over.  Not enough horse power.

They'll come at some point. I mean it took Skyrim about 6 years. We will just have to wait for a bit.