One thing about "handhelds" is, their games are basically low resolution small profile games which is cheap to make, fast to produce and easy to profit. Now there is switch, a so called "hybrid", which requires much larger budgets to make games for it, and the cheapest budget kind of titles a publisher could publish on it are offline mobile games
I don't understand why they have to be exclusives ? Most important thing is that they are great games.
Ok, but again, I didn't say why or why not. I was replying to someone who said their previous handhelds had poor libraries, they didn't and I prefer them to some ports.
They don't need to be, but when talking about previous systems it's worth saying they had these exclusives. I wouldn't mind more DS-3DS like games being multiplat with Switch/PC/PS4/etc, but what's happening is not that they're going multiplat, they're just ceasing to exist.
You mean AA like licensed kids games, visual novels and low budget dungeon crawlers or stuff like Monster Hunter World and compile heart games? It's getting them if it's the former, and not like switch is helping those things either since most of those licensed or low budget games ended up bombing together with the ps4 counterparts anyway
In the range of Etrian and other DS/3DS IPs. Think 7th Dragon, Luminous Arc, Atlus several small scale titles (DeSu, Radiant Historia, Etrian Odyssey), Rune Factory, etc. This kind of game is disappearing.
No, Nintendo funded and published Bayonetta 2. It's first party, same as Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 (and Spider-Man on Sony's side).
Well that'll do as I can't recall where I read it, but interestingly the developers said cross play and cross progression across all platforms. Has Sony fully come around then? A topic for another thread I suppose.
That's never mattered. They don't make Smash either. Sony didn't make Spider-Man.
Considering console games got boring to me when they started focusing more on cinematics and open world bloat than arcadey gameplay, puzzles, deep RPG systems ; this happening to Nintendo portables is terrible to me.
Says who? Based on your logic, Banjo Kazooie, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Conker, etc weren't Nintendo first party games. Same thing goes with the original Crash and Spyro games for Sony or Gears of War 1-3 and Sunset Overdrive for Microsoft.
Sony doesn't own Spider-Man.
Technically second party doesn't mean that at all. What you are describing as second party is actually a third party studio working on a first party game.
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