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quickrick said:
SKMBlake said:

@quickrick: If power was a big deal for 3rd parties, Xbox and Gamecube would have had greater third. party support.

Bethesda was right to bet on the success of the Switch and their efforts will eventually pay off. So will be japanese 3rd party companies. And Ubisoft is about to jump on the Switch train. Big western companies will eventually come

you are talking about a generation where ps2  had  most third party support exclusive.       

Indeed, despite being the less powerful console.

 

But I know this generation is very different from the 6th generation and I never pretended it was different. I just don't buy the "3rd party already running away from the Switch because Nintendo doesn't make a console for them"



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SKMBlake said:
quickrick said:

you are talking about a generation where ps2  had  most third party support exclusive.       

Indeed, despite being the less powerful console.

 

But I know this generation is very different from the 6th generation and I never pretended it was different. I just don't buy the "3rd party already running away from the Switch because Nintendo doesn't make a console for them"

the other console came out a year later to a year and 1/2 later, so of course they were gonna be more powerful, ps2 already won the generation by then. i see no other reason why thirdparty is not much better on wii or switch, unless you're one of those guys that think thirdparty's just hate nintendo. even wiiu got most of the major franchises when it had similar power to 360/ps3. 



Here's the reason why NES and SNES did so well with third party games... the packaging and marketing was mainstream. Since then (N64-Switch) Nintendo has done things differently on purpose for one reason or another and that has kept the mainstream core gamer away. With Gamecube, they released a bright purple lunch box with a weird controller and tiny discs. With Switch, they released a handheld, home console hybrid machine that has detachable controllers and features cardboard children toys as a killer app. They're always doing things differently than Microsoft and Sony and that's the issue. If Nintendo would have released a monster console tech wise, with a standard controller, priced it right... people would start viewing them as an all-in-one place to game. But since they don't do that? It's a Nintendo console... for Nintendo stuff.

Having said all that, I'm fine with the approach. I own all three so I don't give a rats ass either way.



If they got better and consistent third party support than over a couple generations the sales would improve.

The reason I say that is because when the kids grow up and want to play those games they will be on their system of choice.

Most of us had 2-3 generations were 3rd party support of AAA games has been MIA. So we had no choice but to buy other consoles to play them.



 

 

quickrick said: unless you're one of those guys that think thirdparty's just hate nintendo.

Actually I think you're the one here who believes it very strongly, based on what you said earlier "3rd parties aren't on Nintendo home consoles for 4 generations and there is no reason for them to come for the Switch"



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SKMBlake said:
quickrick said: unless you're one of those guys that think thirdparty's just hate nintendo.

Actually I think you're the one here who believes it very strongly, based on what you said earlier "3rd parties aren't on Nintendo home consoles for 4 generations and there is no reason for them to come for the Switch"

lol talk about twisting my words, i said there is no reason fro them not to support switch other then the hardware power gap, like i said before wiiu got many huge franchises. then you have games like FF15, MHW, tekken and resident evil 6, that would be huge sellers in japan on switch, if it was easy to port them, i'm 100% sure they would be on switch.



quickrick said:
SKMBlake said:

Actually I think you're the one here who believes it very strongly, based on what you said earlier "3rd parties aren't on Nintendo home consoles for 4 generations and there is no reason for them to come for the Switch"

lol talk about twisting my words, i said there is no reason fro them not to support switch other then the hardware power gap, like i said before wiiu got many huge franchises. then you have games like FF15, MHW, tekken and resident evil 6, that would be huge sellers in japan on switch, if it was easy to port them, i'm 100% sure they would be on switch.

I don't know where I twisted your words, you litteraly said that it will never gonna happen because 3rd party support wasn't good for 4 generation



SKMBlake said:
quickrick said:

lol talk about twisting my words, i said there is no reason fro them not to support switch other then the hardware power gap, like i said before wiiu got many huge franchises. then you have games like FF15, MHW, tekken and resident evil 6, that would be huge sellers in japan on switch, if it was easy to port them, i'm 100% sure they would be on switch.

I don't know where I twisted your words, you litteraly said that it will never gonna happen because 3rd party support wasn't good for 4 generation

i over exaggerated with never, if handheld can catch up to consoles much better then switch can, and switch brand  can keep selling strong, then its possible to get much better support, but i think thats like 11 years away 



I think some games like Call of Duty would sell well on Nintendo.