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they're still shell shocked by P4G's sales and trying to make sense of the ability to actually sell games.
SMT3 HD came day and date with western release. SMT V is probably a 1 year Switch exclusive.
We have no pattern showing this, though.
They can't even properly support the switch that is the market leader in their own home. I don't see other jp devs supporting PC unless they have western focus
I assume they're going off most Switch exclusives outside of Astral Chain showing up on Steam 6 months to a year later.
Not to mention it's so big in Asia now that shareholders will not allow anyone to willfully skip it for much longer.
Yeah I don't trust Atlus with anything like this either lol.
its a lot easier to support PC...which is why you see a lot of games with PC ports without switch. No downporting necessary, no special SDKs, and way more studios available if you want to get assistance.
And we still see broken games on PC. It isnt that easy
Astral Chain IP is owned by Nintendo so its kinda different. But ye
Most of russians are in Europe so it makes zero sense to include them and Japan is in asia you know. Switch also dominates the Korean and taiwanese console market but we don't know how big is steam there
Monster Hunter Rise is going to be their first real big push, going by the leak from last year. They're really bullish on how it will do there as a result of prioritizing the optimization of the game in lower end hardware. Now, whether or not that translates to them learning from World and the long road it took to get content parity with the console versions remains to be seen, but they clearly are going to be watching that game very closely.
They've all been doing much better at supporting PC every year. The only exceptions are Atlus which made their two franchises exclusive to Sony and Nintendo respectively and occasionally Square Enix who probably gets paid a truckload of money to make Final Fantasy a PS-only game for a while. Capcom, SEGA, and SE outside of FF have all been doing better and better with PC as times goes on
What? Nintendo consoles and games are considered toys for kids in Russia and Eastern Europe. Nintendo is often just a comic relief among gaming communities there and PC is king.
no...thats part of why its easy, the old release it and let the community fix it, and why would they develop everything for the switch from the get go...thats not within the scope of a lot of developers goals. Its generally easier, especially for smaller teams, to pick one platform and focus on it, then worry about porting later, and often times downporting is just not worth the effort, or impossible.
The point is China. China is such a gigantic market that is primarily PC gamers so developers will salivate at the chance to grow their playerbase there. We're talking about a country with a population over a billion
