It doesn't matter what achievement is better. Contrary to you other people maybe find it interesting.

It’s kinda wild that the PS4 never reached 2 million units sold in any year it’s been on the market in Japan. It basically had all of the AAA Japanese games under the sun:

- FFXIV

- FFXV

- FFVIIR

- DQXI

- Metal Gear Solid V

- Monster Hunter World

- Resident Evil VII

- Resident Evil Village

- Resident Evil 2 Remake

- Resident Evil 3 Remake

- Devil May Cry 5

- Persona 5

- Nier Automata

- Tekken 7

- Street Fighter 5

- Elden Ring

- Dark Souls 3

- Seikiro

And nowadays we’re talking about the Switch possibly selling 3-4 million this year and ready for the console to set off into the sunset. Not saying it’s right or wrong, but it’s interesting reflecting on the two consoles. I know people will mention differences between the consoles and their prices, but you gotta also consider that the Switch is selling games at relatively close to home console prices, not at DS/3DS game prices.

You think the PS5 will reach 2 million this year because of improved stock to meet the initial demand? Or is there a game that could potentially be that mega hit that will drive console sales? Could it be FFXVI or Spider Man 2?

1. I feel like you are not even reading my post, because I literally already said that in my post.

2. That is the exact same problem except in reverse. However it is always easier for developers to start with the PC or similar x86 architecture game consoles like the PS5 or XBS than the Switch's Arm. The Switch version whether built from the ground up or a port will always take longer than other versions and thus be seen as a delay for the other versions. These companies release their games same day for the benefit of each individual consumer to not feel singled out by releasing late ports. It is much better marketing for all sales to be on the same day, same thing as having a worldwide release.

Basically I am saying that when companies release games for the Switch, they are actually really passionate and confident in the Switch version.

I am not criticizing the Switch having the Arm, because I think it is necessary for the Switch to be the Switch IE: portable. But it is the reality of the situation that it would make ports or games built from the ground as the more difficult option unless they are Exclusive.

ARM is common, long established, standardized architecture, not some arcane hardware like the PS3 that's insanely difficult to code for. Games come out day 1 on Switch all the time, if it was really that hard then we wouldn't be seeing smaller devs do it on a practically daily basis.

Agreed.

But x86 is easier for gaming console game developers, hence the post.

I'm not a developer, so I can't speak to which is easier, it just still sounds to me like its more the porting down to a device below a game's established performance baseline that seems to cause issues. Whenever I hear devs talk about the challenges of working with Switch's it's always about getting games designed for a higher spec to run on a lower one, never that the hardware is inherently difficult to code for.

Wouldn't it make more sense to then make the game for switch and port up to playstation/pc and have everything release at the same time?
Playstation owners don't seem to care about switch ports to playstation from what I've seen, and just want to play the games on their system.

Or maybe delay the game for 6 months, Japanese games are doing better on switch then their playstation equivalent more now then ever, even if it's just the switch brute forcing higher sales because of the shear amount of console sales, but because of that the switch games sales should offset any extra development times, rather then releasing the game late and having maybe 1/3 of the total sales it could have had

Neither am I. But we can listen to what the developers themselves have to say. Eiyuden Chronicles is one example. Talking about rewriting entire code and basically making a 2nd game. Most people develop games on a Windows PC.

In this article a pro-Arm developer lists some details for why Arm is difficult on Windows PC.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/op-ed-windows-isnt-ready-for-arm-developers/

But I think the most important reason why it is difficult is because PC/XB/PS are all x86, while only one console is ARM. So naturally a port between those 3 will be easier than the single ARM console.

But if it's so difficult, how come smaller devs manage to do it all the time, especially in Japan? Non-AAA games get simultaneous releases all the time.

I think providing enough stock will be enough to get it close to 2 million and then factor in games like FFXVI and Resident Evil 4R then it should do it.