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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Microsoft plans to bring more ports to Switch this year, no plans for Xbox Live SDK on Switch just yet

Cerebralbore101 on 20 March 2019

Rare Replay. Bring Banjo Kazooie home!



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KLXVER on 20 March 2019

The new Battletoads would be great.



KLAMarine on 20 March 2019

Rare Replay! Battle Toads! Old Gears of War!



bowserthedog on 20 March 2019
shikamaru317 said:

My money is on ReCore, Super Lucky's Tale, and Ori and the Blind Forest. Lucky and Ori should be able to run on Switch easily since neither is that graphically demanding. ReCore would need some downgrading, but nowhere near as much as any of their AAA games would need. Rare Replay might be a possibility, but would be too much work I'm sure, porting 30 games to Switch. Some individual Rare ports might happen though.

I would imagine that some last gen games would also be on the table.  Perhaps master chief collection or Gear of War 1,2,3 would be possibilities.  This would certainly help to create more fans of these respective franchises.



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VAMatt on 20 March 2019
bowserthedog said:

able.  Perhaps master chief collection or Gear of War 1,2,3 would be possibilities.  This would certainly help to create more fans of these respective franchises.

These series (especially Halo) appearing outside of MS platforms (XB, Windows) would be a pretty big development.  A positive one, IMO.



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abronn627 on 20 March 2019

A Rare Replay Switch édition including the games published by Nintendo back in the days would be awesome, but i’m pretty sure that’s not coming.



killeryoshis on 20 March 2019

I guess Microsoft sees the Switch as a Handheld and not a home console than. To Microsoft, the Switch is not stealing any customers from them so they see this as easy money.



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gergroy on 20 March 2019
killeryoshis said:
I guess Microsoft sees the Switch as a Handheld and not a home console than. To Microsoft, the Switch is not stealing any customers from them so they see this as easy money.

Microsoft is building up to a digital streaming service, kinda like google just announced.  They are trying to grow their audience before they pull the plug on the hardware side of things.  I’m sure they still view the switch as competition, but right now the two companies have two different visions for the future...



Thisguywhokills on 20 March 2019
killeryoshis said:
I guess Microsoft sees the Switch as a Handheld and not a home console than. To Microsoft, the Switch is not stealing any customers from them so they see this as easy money.

Well PC is not "Handheld" and still most xbox exclusives are coming to it

I think Microsoft want to have a "gaming service" available everywhere being exclusive to just the xbox doesn't make the money they want at the end of the day, and for a company making money is important

So" Xbox/Game Pass" is basically becoming an app like Youtube or Netflix download it on anything and play Microsoft Games :)

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HylianSwordsman on 20 March 2019
gergroy said:
killeryoshis said:
I guess Microsoft sees the Switch as a Handheld and not a home console than. To Microsoft, the Switch is not stealing any customers from them so they see this as easy money.

Microsoft is building up to a digital streaming service, kinda like google just announced.  They are trying to grow their audience before they pull the plug on the hardware side of things.  I’m sure they still view the switch as competition, but right now the two companies have two different visions for the future...

I don't think they'll ever pull the plug on the hardware side until it actually loses them money, and more money than would be justified by the strength it offers the brand. Keeping it around allows super brand loyal fans to keep buying those consoles. It's low risk profit and keeps those loyal fans close. If Nintendo did something like this, I'd keep buying their consoles, but I'd imagine they'd start to sell at sub-WiiU levels. The same thing will likely happen with Xbox, but the brand as a whole will actually be bigger and stronger.