The TV remains the most popular babysitter, that's why even commercial breaks between kids shows include advertising targeted at children and adults alike.

Third parties adding a Switch logo to a general commercial isn't much of an effort and it's something that is barely noticed. If they want to raise awareness, they should show people who play their game(s) on Switch.

Well you could say the same about them only showing some PS4 logo then. Although showing the PS4 or XB1 version of the game is probably a better idea than showing the Switch version. They cant really make different commercials for all the different versions. That would be silly. Nintendo should step up and start hyping some third parties instead of informing us of third party games in the tone you would inform people to remember their flu shots.

You summed up the attitude of third parties pretty well. Nintendo is supposed to do the work for third parties to make third parties make more money whereas on other consoles third parties know no restraints to do the work themselves.

There would be nothing silly about making a dedicated Switch commercial. A Switch version adds the value of portability to any game by default, so that's what justifies the effort of making a special commercial.

Nintendo won't care if the big third parties don't want to make money on Switch because Nintendo makes big bucks without them. Another factor is that the absence/reluctance of the big third parties puts more of the spotlight on smaller third parties, including indies, who are happy about less competition and laugh all the way to the bank.

The lack of third parties on Nintendo platforms are primarily Nintendos fault, so helping third parties shine is something they could damn well do a better job at. You say that Nintendo makes big bucks without them, yet we can go back 3 years and see that they had a hard time making the big bucks on their own IPs alone. Look at Sony and MS. They give third parties almost just as much attention as their own titles. Nintendo doesn't. That's why we get a 30 second announcements for a third party game, then 20 minutes of footage from Mario Tennis in their Directs. If they want third parties on their platform, then they have to put in the work and help out wherever they can.

Statements like this are so ridiculous. 3rd parties only have themselves to blame for their choices. And nintendo showcases any notable 3rd party release in their directs, including presentations dedicated to indies.

Ironically, one of the big reasons why Nintendo struggled to make profits was because they sucked up to EA with the Wii U. Nintendo and EA announced an unprecedented partnership between the two of them at E3 2011 as every EA IP was supposed to come to the Wii U, according to EA's CEO who was standing on the stage of Nintendo's E3 conference.

Ultimately, Nintendo has no choice but to do what they do. If Nintendo tried to align themselves with the AAA third party publishers, as they did with the Wii U, then the market's response can be summed up with three simple words.

"Fuck off, Nintendo."

The paths of console gaming have never been farther apart than they are today. On one road you have those big third parties who think up one shady money-grabbing scheme after another, on the other road you have Nintendo who has no choice but to be submissive to the market and run their console business with dignity or else they will suffer severe punishment. You can observe this in the development of Nintendo's DLC practices where Nintendo tried virtually all options of DLC pieces and packs as well as microtransactions with free-to-play games such as Pokémon Shuffle and Pokémon Picross on the 3DS and Wii U; it all led to the expansion pass on Switch because the market sent the message that it doesn't want little pieces, but rather meaty content expansions and pay for them accordingly.

Nintendo's path is at odds with the path of the AAA third parties. Like I said in my first post in this thread, gamers are continually led to believe that Nintendo is the evil entity in this equation. You are one of those people who've been had, because you are convinced that Nintendo should pave the way for AAA third parties and help them wherever they can. But if you take a step back to look at the bigger picture, does it really strike you as rational that you, as a gamer, should be advocating for yet another console manufacturer to make all the money-grabbing schemes the expected and accepted standard for console gaming?

I just explained to you why Nintendo and third parties are at odds. It's not in the interest of AAA third parties to establish Switch as an alternative free of lootboxes and the like, because that could start to hurt their business on other platforms.

By the way, the BioShock Collection has been announced for Switch.

You can consider those sports games testruns to gauge how receptive Switch owners are to microtransactions. You can tell from those publishers' follow-up actions how successful their attempts were, especially EA.

You'll have to look for a BioShock trailer yourself.