Do you want Nintendo to have a monopoly on the console market? I'm fine with everything going on pc but if Sony gives there major ips to Nintendo that would hurt ps5 sales and Sony image as well. Unless Nintendo does the samething this would hurt the Playstation brand.

I think the question is, will hardware be the future as a company or will it be software? Given how many different ways there are to play games, software is going to be the future. Just too much competition in the hardware space.

It could happen with PS4 games, if they can get more sales out of those games.

But like, it pretty much stops there I reckon, depending on whether Switch 2 is not on par with the PS5.

Would love it but I dont see it happening to be honest - at least not with God of War for sure.


I can see LBP along with Ratchet and Clank though.

Horizon may have a Lego game coming to Switch, but Lego is so different.

I say Spider-Man (2018) has a shot before Horizon because of how bankable Spider-Man is. He's probably the most profitable and iconic superhero ever, only matched or exceeded by Batman.
I really don't see Spider-Man getting a Switch port, but Switch 2 is not extremely unlikely.

If not this decade that sort of thing should happen next decade I think. In the past decade exclusivity has declined massively and even in the past 5 years it's significantly declined so this decade could end up being the last one where hardware exclusivity is a major part of the industry. The main factor for that will be what Nintendo does and how much longer they'll continue to strongly push it.

Shit release Zelda and Mario on PS5/PC/xbox then since its exciting for you seeing exclusives go on every platform and watching fanboy melt downs.

Console exclusives, made by the 1st party developers (including 2nd party like Xenoblade and Pokemon) have one major advantage. The need to sell consoles by having games you can only get there means they are pushed to make higher polished, more varied, and otherwise attractive games. 

This is why something like God of War and Horizon come off as better and more polished single player games in a sea of Ubisoft. This is why Nintendo saved Bayonetta from being a one off and releases a lot of stuff you don't see a ton of from the higher echelons of gaming like platformers and strategy games. 

Look at how Sega's lineup shifted after they became third party. You will get lesser results if they start relying on other consoles....hell look at Microsoft. 

Console wars, even without outright insults a la Genesis and SNES, lead to competition and in turn leads to better services and products from the publishers. No competition means lesser products.

Nintendo has like multiple mobile games that they put on mobile after Mario from major IP like Pokemon, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem, so I'm not sure that analogy really works. 

System RAM is an outlier because it's not Video RAM, how many people have 8GB or less of VRAM on their GPUs ... probably a shit ton. It means the Switch 2 for example has more usable video RAM than many of the more popular video cards on Steam. 

My point is equating PC all to high end users is simply false, a big chunk of PC rigs are on the lower end. The no.2 GPU on Steam is the GTX 1650, lol that's not even an RTX capable card, the no.1 is the 3060, not exactly bleeding edge.