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Agent-X-:

--- Quote from: Miyamoto on February 11, 2017, 05:42:36 AM ---
--- Quote from: Sarail on February 10, 2017, 08:43:27 PM ---
Now, more than ever, it's up to third-parties to seriously deliver the goods.

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Third-party support is one of the bigger problems facing the Switch. It's one thing for the unbreakable Kimi Shima and co to point out that the Switch is compatible with Unity and Unreal but that doesn't count for much if developers aren't going to bring their bigger titles to the Switch. Final Fantasy XV, RE VII, Mass Effect Andromeda etc. Where are they? Even Ubi aren't supporting the Switch in the same way they did the Wii and Wii U. EA only offering the legacy edition of FIFA? They offered more support to the Wii U. Nintendo need to be aggressive with their courting of third-parties, just like Microsoft did over ten years ago with the 360.
You talk about how excited your Xbox-loving boyf is for the Switch and that is great, but what is he going to play after Breath of the Wild? Is he going to wait two months to play a three year old game like Mario Kart 8? And even if Nintendo had that third party support, the games would still run better on the Xbone (or PS 4), so why is he so excited for the Switch? So he can play on a system with a significantly smaller library that plays at a lower frame rate/resolution? Outside of first-party software, the Switch is all but redundant, just like the Wii U. Oh, and let's not forget that you have to pay a premium price for the Switch. How many of us here are wii U owners paying well in excess of $400 to play Zelda and then Mario Kart 8 a couple of months later?
The best Nintendo could do, would be if at E3 they had a huge third-party presentation featuring all the biggest publishers/developers and all the big games that are coming to Xbone/PS4 were also announced for Switch. That is the best they could hope for. To have the same as the competition with noticeably less performance. But they won't even achieve that.

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Isn't that only a rumor? I thought EA (or someone within EA) rejected that notion, and it's not yet proven to be the legacy edition.

Nintendo Switch will get a “custom built” version of FIFA 18

I have a negative outlook on third party support as well, but I'm cautiously optimistic that if the Switch even sells half as well as the Wii during its first year that we will see a sudden uptick in support from western third parties. Will that mean ports of FFXV, RE7, and ME:A? I still think that's unlikely, but we should see some other titles like Madden, NBA Live, Assassins Creed, etc.

I consider those tempered expectations, but assuming that "kind of support" doesn't enthuse you I'd also like to suggest that Switch would see focused support where titles arrive first on Switch with timed exclusivity before arriving on other platforms--I'm thinking about titles like a FFVI remake where Switch would be perceived as the ideal platform and assuming it's successful they would offer it to an expanded audience (ie. Steam, PS4). That's where my hope is.

Evan_B:
If the Switch is getting any sort of strong third party support, it's going to be from Japanese developers that want to reignite the console scene in Japan.

NWR_insanolord:

--- Quote from: Agent-X- on February 11, 2017, 01:31:23 PM ---Isn't that only a rumor? I thought EA (or someone within EA) rejected that notion, and it's not yet proven to be the legacy edition.

Nintendo Switch will get a “custom built” version of FIFA 18

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I'm really hoping the fact that they're custom building it means they're going to want to recoup some of that effort and we get more than one iteration of it on the system this time. The version we got at the Wii U launch was really good, I reviewed it for the site and gave it a 9, but that was the only one the system ever got.

ThePerm:
Either Switch is sold out or I can walk into a store and grab one. Which is it people?

nickmitch:
Well, the Wii was a certified hit, and you couldn't then.

The Wii U was a certified miss, and you couldn't for a while.

The Switch has potential to be a hit with Nintendo focusing on keeping production high but still being Nintendo.

So it could go either way.

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