You are right about Wii, but offcourse that Wii U could handle Skyrim and Dark Souls if PS3/360 handle them, but Wii U didnt got chance to maybe get some of those ports beacuse failed in its 1st year.

I just think its about time TakeTwo thinks about how GTAV can help Switch sales instead of just waiting until it hits whatever number they are comfortable with. Its a 5 year old game. How much could they possible think they would lose on a Switch port? The Switch has proven itself a long time ago. Q1 of this year would have been a perfect time for a GTAV port. I dont think many people are clutching for an E3 announcement with a November release at this point. They should stop acting like GTAV is some sort of price Switch owners would be lucky to get and just come out and say if it is or isn't coming.

I know there are several smaller Rockstar studios but they have to keep GTA Online running while launching new content and, with the recent RDR 2 delay, they'll be helping the main studio to finish it on time. They don't have time to work on anything else.

LA Noire didn't sell great when it launched, so it was a good candidate for a current gen port, and since they were developing the PS4/X1 version, adding one for Switch was reasonable.

You're talking now about a new project to port the game only to Switch, and while I'm sure it would sell well, we've seen lots of times how devs stop developing games from a certain franchise because it doesn't sell well enough. And that's the crucial part, how much would it need to sell for Rockstar/Take Two considering the port when they could be using those resources to help develop RDR 2? 

I want a Civilization game for the Switch

Switch proved itself few months ago, but porting games need time, especially when you have huge game like GTA5.

For the record, guy that hinted GTAV for Switch (Vern, same guy that said La Noire is coming to Switch even before LA Noire remaster is announced at all), in September hinted GTAV for Switch.

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/09/rumour_source_who_leaked_l_a_noire_switch_port_drops_hint_that_grand_theft_auto_v_is_next

But GTA V sold great on PS3/360 and they still ported to PS4/XB1, because they knew they will have even better sales. They also know they will easily sell at least few milions on Switch also, so we talking about clear profit.

Porting game don't have anything with development of new game, if pay attention on current ports you will see that most ports are done buy teams or companies outside house from 3rd party companies.For instance, Doom and Rocket League were developed by Panic Button.

GTA V was ported to PS4/X1 because the game was launched at the end of life of the previous consoles and, with no backwards compatibility, they knew that most PS360 would double dip on it. Plus the extra power of the new consoles would allow them to make the game they trully want.

With Switch, they would have to develop a "worse" game. Yes, it would be portable, but not better. Also, while they would (most likely) win money with the port, they'll win more money launching RDR 2, so all their efforts will most likely be focused on that.

Finally, while some publishers are fine hiring other studios to port their games, others prefer to keep it all in-house, so just because others do it, it doesn't mean that Take Two/Rockstar would want to do it.

Take-Two put out L.A. Noire and the sports games to test the waters. If those games sell enough, then Switch will get GTA V. Otherwise it won't.

Don't think GTA VI will come to Switch unless they put out V first and it explodes on Switch (like 20m+). Most likely the Switch will get GTA V, but nothing later than that.

With over 90M in sales - with 15M done last year alone, despite being on the market for several years - and still going strong, i don't see why a port can't be successful on Switch.

But that doesn't change nothing, why we have so many ports/remasters this gen!? Simply beacuse they are easy money, they are selling and investment is a low.

But evry multiplatform party Switch game is worse compared to PS4/XB1 versions of games (Minecraft, Doom, Skyrim, NBA, Fifa, La Noire, NBA 2K, Rocket League, Darks Souls, RE...are all "worse" games compared to PS4/XB1 version of games), that dont changes nothing.

Rockstar have more teams not just one and they are working always at several projects at once, and like I wrote porting game and deveolping brand new game are totally different things. So they could easily work on GTAV port and RDR2 in same time, same like they were working on LA Noire port and RDR2 in same time, and offcourse that in any case they curently dont work only on RDR2.

Take 2 released 41 games on Wii.