If possible, can you say what data leads you to this conclusion? Being that most Switch owners also own a PS4 or Xbox One, I'd say they're directly competing as they're selling to the same audience and gamers only have so much money to spend on games between 2-3 consoles. The market seems like it's getting bigger to the point where many people can own multiple consoles, but it would still seem the products are competing for the dollars of an overlapping audience.
You are not. I have pc and switch and prefer switch if the game is available there. Love not being tethered to a specific spot to game in.
Ok so now we're at the point where Capcom is lying because it doesn't line up with this inane theory that Capcom should be bringing games to the Switch that they themselves admitted they can't get to work.
To the italicised: It might be a wash, since some people on Era who are Switch + Other Console owners are intentionally picking up Switch versions of new games for the convenience. The belief that horsepower > portability is not universal.
Yeah, I doubt that they'd be lying that Monster Hunter World would be a challenge to adequately run on the Switch. I'm pretty sure it doesn't even run perfectly on the PS4. Now, that being said, there are other games that they can bring over that they haven't, such as the DMC Collection and their NES Disney collection. Then you have their major games that aren't as demanding that can be brought over, with some resources and interest. Their support isn't as bad as some make it out to be, nor do I believe that there's actual malice on Capcom's end and some folk do need to be more realistic, but it can definitely be better, which I don't think is unfair to say. It's just that some folk get too emotionally invested in this sort of stuff
Sure, I'm just saying the two results (buying a non-Switch SKU over a Switch SKU vs. buying a Switch SKU over a non-Switch SKU) could just cancel out each other.
I only brought up the ownership overlap because it makes the "just buy an 'x'" response a hollow one. it turns the argument from ownership to preference. in which multiplatform releases only stand to make the publisher more money as it increases the pool of people buying the game
That stuff is not unreasonable and it's not like they can't do more but this idea that the Switch can run DMC 5 is insane to me and that's the issue I've been taking. The Switch has been out for more than a year and we have a good idea of what can or can't run.
Agreed. I mean, the Switch, as impressive as its hardware is, does not have the chops to run the more demanding games from the PS4/XB1 adequately, just some of them. The Vita couldn't do so with the PS3/360 and even the PSP couldn't do so with the PS2/GC/Xbox. It's no slight against it. So as long as support continues to improve, with more exclusives and higher quality ports, I think the Switch will have a bright future ahead of it
I think that's very likely. There's so much hype behind it and it's on a fast selling Nintendo console with a large core audience. I'd say it's pretty likely that it'll not only outsell Brawl by a good margin but even the past few Pokemon games, all but the best selling
Well I figured it wouldn't be outsell those absurdly high selling Pokemon games, but surpassing numbers like 16 or so million I think is pretty likely
That sounds about right. Even for casual fans, Let's Go isn't as exciting as a brand new next-generation console Pokemon game so I'd expect its sales to be just north of 10 million as opposed to the typical ~15 million
Well, maybe. Despite just being an expansion with no hype to it a year after the original released, Ultra still sold like 8M units. Pokémon fans are pretty happy with very safe/bland projects it seems.
Yes, but the fact of the matter is that Smash was always going to have more preorder hype than Pokemon, as this entry seems more targeted at the casual GO crowd.
Whether Let's Go will.continue selling will depend on the fraction of the audience that consists of non-traditional pokémon buyers that might not gonon to buy gen 8 imo, since we have seen that pokémon games largely stop selling when the next entry comes out.
Nintendo's done a couple ~$30 bundles (with a free game) but it's only for select retailers
let's not forget TPC cuts off their games' legs with their yearly releases
That's the thing.. Ppl should look for and want 3rd party exclusives. Not worry about ports. And when they get them, expect compromises.
It's an apples and oranges comparison. Like I doubt anyone thinks Steep looks better than Doom but that was also canned for technical reasons. Not all games are created equal and just because they got Doom to run doesn't mean every game can run.
Given the choice between GTAV and Vice CIty, I'd choose Vice City in a heart beat.
