Slownenberg said: Well Switch will for sure get its first multi-million selling 3rd party game in Japan.
Two MH games plus the new Disgaea game all exclusive for Switch next year. Seems people who said 3rd party support for Switch would die with the next gen systems were dead wrong (obviously). And those who said 3rd party support would continue to get better and better as it has been each year, and said 3rd parties probably started making new Switch games in like 2018 after seeing Switch success so games should start coming out in 2021 were right on the money!
2021 is going to be the biggest year yet for Switch. I dunno if sales will match the Covid+AC frenzy but between new model, finally AAA 3rd party games built from the ground up for Switch hitting, and rumored big first party plans, next year is gonna be insane! |
I've been saying for years that Switch would get lots of new third party games (not just ports) and that would also include a few big sellers like Monster Hunter. What I totally got wrong was how long it would take. If you'd asked me in 2017 when I thought Rune Factory 5 would be released, I would have said 2019. Instead it has a 2021 release date.
But in regards to game library, Switch is very much like the NES. Nintendo did all of the heavy lifting in the early years of the NES, but eventually the third party games started coming and the NES got a ton of great ones including a few big sellers. That's what we should expect from the Switch. The year 2021 looks like the beginning of "the flood". "The flood" is all of the new third party games coming to the Switch. So far the third party games have mostly been ports. We are now entering the era where Switch is going to get new third party games. Some will be exclusives and some will be multiplat, but overall there are going to be a lot more new third party games. The years 2021, 2022 and 2023 are going to be when the Switch gets it's best third party games, and that might include 2024 and 2025 too. It's going to be a great time.