Tbh I find that interview answer of NF's really cringey. He wouldn't even react to people saying 'NF doesn't want to support Switch' if there wasn't some truth to it. They don't have the knowledge to work with Switch? How about acquiring knowledge then, just like all the developers actually developing games for Switch 🤦♂️ It's like he's given up on the future and has accepted that NF will slowly fade into irrelevancy ...
On another note, some more questions to you guys, because I've been following MC-threads for so long. Pls excuse my obnoxious enthusiasm:
1) So Capcom switched to a business model of releasing a few heavy hitters each year, no smaller titles. Looking at worst case scenarios: How many bomba could Capcom as company survive? Ever since they switched their strategy, I was thinking about that. When you're only releasing like 2 games per year, even one flop must hurt. How many 'hurt' would be too many?
--> This is not entirely true since Capcom's business models still thrives on catalogue sales of their legacy titles. However with BC coming and the number of games they already released, the well has dried a bit.
2) It's some time off, but what do you expect Monster Hunter World 2 to sell like? Matching the 1st game's sales? My train of thought her is that Capcom could possibly run into a Metroid Prime 2-effect here, meaning that lots of people bought the first game due to hype, but now that they know what the franchise is like, they'll stay away from the sequel.
--> Depends on the platforms and the timing.
3) Will Atlus ever open the floodgates for full, proper Switch-support?
--> When SMTV releases and they'll have their assets ready for the Switch. Expect remakes and EO games.
4) With PS5 launching next year, do you expect Japanese developers to start developing games with Switch as a base and then adding details for the PS5-version OR do you expect a full divide between developers targeting PS5 only (to make money in the west) and other (smaller) devs switching to mobile game development, with an occasional Switch-port?
---> It'll depend on the publishers and the scope of the game. Expect almost (looking at you Falcom) AA Japanese games to be on Switch. AAA games is more tricky. Regardless expect those games to target PS4 aswell for quite some time.
