I mean Dragon's Dogma has like no predecessor on Nintendo platforms as far I know, 1.1 million is pretty high honestly given that. 

Other IP that seem to be faring well on Switch now is Persona, which wasn't on the system before. 

You just gotta bring the games over, Switch has such a high install base and such high software sales that almost every high profile release I think comes in at around 1 million or close eventually. 

They have to try multiplat because you can't as a president of a company just say "well, guess it's over for Final Fantasy, wrap it up and get ready for 2 million LTD for Final Fantasy Remake Part III", like that's not an acceptable attitude to have. It's your job if you're the president to turn that around, it's your job to try.

It's not just about immediate sales either, franchises that see long term growth tend to put in work building up new audiences, it may not be glamorous fighting even for a few 100k, but that can add up over time to a lot of new gamers. You look at IP like Pikmin, Nintendo has been slowly and slowly building up the fan base for that generation after generation. They need to start getting players back, especially in Japan, how the fuck do you lose an entire 4 million fan base in a country when Monster Hunter, Pokemon, Zelda, Dragon Quest are all as popular as they were 20 years ago. Unacceptable. 

The latest numbers for Hogwarts are from January, at which point the Switch version had only been out for less than two and half months vs a year for the PS5/XBS versions; hardly a fair comparison. It's off to a strong start with the third biggest Switch opening of 2023 and has shown good legs since. It's much too early to call its lifetime share of sales.

FF7 on Switch 2 would almost certainly be a million plus seller, most of which would be pure profit as porting is vastly cheaper than actually making a game. For a game that's failing to meet its sales projections, that's a much needed boost.

It would sell a million fairly easily especially if released in a good window (like launch) ... there's no way FF is less popular among Nintendo fans than something like Dragon's Dogma is, if that sold 1.1 million and is a port of a game from 2013, I mean I think FF7 Remake and Rebirth would do fine. Kingdom Hearts III even as a late port I think would sell 1+ million also. 

Other thing is there's probably going to be more room for 3rd parties on Switch 2 because Nintendo is not likely to be able to keep pumping out new games at the same rate going forward, virtually every publisher has hit up against a wall in production time when they get to PS4 and beyond level visuals. More opportunities for 3rd parties to step in who have plenty of PS4/PS5 content already finished just waiting to be ported over. 

I not sure about FF on the switch. Icaro brings up a good point. I'm not sure today's gamers consider FF a top franchise anymore.

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I also find it interesting that MH World sold considerably more than MH Rise. 

Porting to PC and Xbox is somewhat cheap, but it still takes months for SE to do the ports.

Porting to Switch is significantly more challenging. Games that get ported to Switch tend to be games that are guaranteed to make a return. Switch 2, we don't know anything about yet, so no comment.

We know plenty about the S2.  Super powerful, cheap, will sell over 100 million and will be the lead platform for third party!  Haven't you kept up with the news?!!?

Jokes aside.  100% aligned.  I'm waiting on Nintendo and confirmation before making too many S2 assumptions.  

A port of FF7 would be a pretty safe bet to make a return, and Switch ports aren't that expensive or risky given we've seen everything from Doom to Grounded to Outer Worlds to Sniper Elite to Kingdom Come Deliverance make the jump.

That Switch 2 will offer a worthwhile market is also a reasonably safe bet. Nothing's guaranteed, of course, but at this stage its safer to assume success than failure.

When you sell 150+ million hardware systems, you will get more of the benefit of the doubt next time around. Just how it goes.

Square-Enix is going to have to learn how to port games faster now that they have changed direction and are by their own description "aggressively" pursuing a multiplatform strategy, it shouldn't take months on end to port games other major publishers do it in a fraction of the time.

IMO I wouldn't be all that surprised if what was really happening in the past was Sony was feeding them a few bucks here and there to slow down on any ports and make them as slowly as possible and Square-Enix being stupid was taking the bait. Sony is petty, I wouldn't even be surprised if they kept the original Final Fantasy VII (the PS1 one) off Nintendo systems for a lot longer than it had to be (took 25 years for Square to port it to any Nintendo system? Really Square?). It sure as fuck could have been ported to a number of Nintendo systems prior. So glad Square-Enix is ditching that whole shitty relationship.

Ports should be faster when they are not built with a single piece of hardware in mind.  I've always assumed FF was built with playstation in mind, so lot's of custom coding, thus ports were not easy.  Same reason TLoU was a god awful port.  If Square develops more generically using graphic setting sliders, making ports super quick.  Capcom figured it out years ago with RE.  

Fact is, outside Nintendo, exclusives are dead.  Even Nintendo, I think, at some point will support more hardware.  Granted I think we are at least 10 years out from that.  

They're not even *starting* ports until the exclusivity periods are over ... no shit your port is going to take longer when you don't even start it, what's the reason for waiting months to even being the porting process? It's nonsense and it's all part of their weird deals they were making with Sony. 

Square was a dumb company that was living in 1999, their new president finally has said enough is enough. It's like a girl who gets into a relationship with a guy that won't let her see any of her other friends, and this goes on for years, she realizes she's unhappy, at some point she needs to just break up with him. 

Exclusives are dead which is good for Nintendo, not so great for Sony though. Nintendo will double down on it because they love it when they are the "special one" in the industry, so if you're waiting for that, you'll be waiting a long, long time probably.