So GTA V keeps getting rereleased in every console around since the original launch. All of them... except for the Switch. A console that has sold +120m units, and has been outselling the PS5/XBox XS for a long time until relatively recently. And it's a console that would have no issue running the game. At first I thought T2 was just waiting to see how the Switch did, just like many other companies. But it's been six years now, a replacement might be announced sooner rather than later at this point. And it seems like GTA V is not going to come.

Why?

Is T2's relationship with Nintendo that bad that they would ignore the sales? Do they not like Nintendo's online so they don't bother? It's weird to think that even CoD is going to come to Nintendo (with Microsoft's help), but the only GTA games the Switch is getting is the notoriously broken Remaster Trilogy.

They don't need Switch

I mean... sure. But they like money. And they have proven they aren't above doing a quick rushed job if it gets them money *ehem* the trilogy *ehem*. So why wouldn't they just someone else to do even a quick single player only port?

The fact that they ported LA Noire feels so random. Why would they bring THAT to the Switch and not the one game that would sell millions?

Making the game working online (which is where their money truly is) is probably much harder and they do not want to spend their best developers integrating GTA in Switch network. GTA trilogy was just ports of single player games, so they released on Switch, minimum effort required 

GTA V being released on PS5 and Series XS is much more a matter of keep the current installbase buzzy when they upgrade their hardware, instead of letting them play another thing when waiting for GTA VI

But if that was the case, they would only have to release a single-player only version. They wouldn't have been the first company to do so. It would still sell millions.

GTA Online is their focus now for GTA V, and presumably they don't believe that is a good fit or an easy port for the Switch.

That's probably the most plausible reason. Still, they had no compuctions with the trilogy, so I don't see why they didn't just leave it to some other studio to port the single player.

Though the same can be said about hundreds of third party games. It would be interesting if we got more information from publishers on why they don't bother with the Switch. Is it because they think they can't sell on a console monopolised by Nintendo software, though that seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Is it because PlayStation/Xbox/PC is a lot easier to develop simultaneously for?

I'm sure there's several different reasons but case-by-case it's hard to rationalise why they wouldn't do something like a GTA V SP port. I'm surprised we never saw The Sims 4 for Switch also.

From Microsoft, they released this to CMA showing 2021 sales. Nintendo Platforms are only responsible for 18% of 3rd party unit sales while having a massive install-base. If it wasn't for a massive 3rd party exclusive like MHR launching in 2021 it'd probably be much worse.

GTA Trilogy probably froze plans for that.

With how bad the launch was - they probably chalked it up and considered Switch to not be a software seller for GTA as a result.

Hopefully GTAV will be on the next Nintendo system.