One of the things to take from this year's Game Awards ? Switch's increasing 3rd party support (MK11, CTR, Marvel UA3...)

[Skittzo]

Nintendo has until the next gen consoles release, I doubt those games will have switch ports

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How soon do you think we'll see next gen only genes though? It'll likely be cross gen for a good while.

By that time the Switch 2 or 3 might be out.

 

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Nintendo gets third party support after their consoles sell well. Glad to see it on switch as well, but this is consistent with the Wii and DS.

 

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It's promising for sure. Just hope the port quality is there. MK11 especially. Can't imagine that with a variable resolution and frame rate.

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I think the Vita version was poor, but hopefully they knock this one out of the park.

 

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What's the difference between what you wrote and a third party exclusive for you? the IP is still owned by Marvel, and the game is developed by Team Ninja, Nintendo is only publishing it (and maybe doing the localization, unconfirmed)

Does anyone really believe Sony or Microsoft don't pay for exclusivity? hahahaha seriously.

There has been only few rare occasions where i don't believe that happened and that's with companies like Atlus who takes their time to make a game so they usually decide to focus on a single platform, and even that we don't actually know for sure what's happening in the background.

And most importantly, even if you consider it first party, what's the matter? Nintendo doesn't have third party games because of that? Is this is your narrative? That's how pointless this is.

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The premise of the thread is how 3rd parties are seeing the Switch from now on and if things has changed, so its not pointless in that regards. If Nintendo pays for the developement for MUA3 (seeing that they are the publisher and it being exclusive to the Switch), then thats not a case where a 3rd party has changed. The same goes for Microsoft and Sony too. If people had brought up e.g Spiderman in talk about how 3rd parties are supporting the PS4, people would likely comment that Sony is footing the bill for that game, and not being a 3rd party initiative. The other two examples mentioned in the OP, Crash Team Racing and Mortal Kombat XI, those are games were Activision and Warner Bros respectively most likely has taken the initiative themself to make a Switch version, and releasing them at the same date (i assume) as the other versions. A year ago, maybe that wouldnt have been the case.

 

[Skittzo]

The premise of the thread is how 3rd parties are seeing the Switch from now on and if things has changed, so its not pointless in that regards. If Nintendo pays for the developement for MUA3 (seeing that they are the publisher and it being exclusive to the Switch), then thats not a case where a 3rd party has changed. The same goes for Microsoft and Sony too. If people had brought up e.g Spiderman in talk about how 3rd parties are supporting the PS4, people would likely comment that Sony is footing the bill for that game, and not being a 3rd party initiative. The other two examples mentioned in the OP, Crash Team Racing and Mortal Kombat XI, those are games were Activision and Warner Bros respectively most likely has taken the initiative themself to make a Switch version, and releasing them at the same date (i assume) as the other versions. A year ago, maybe that wouldnt have been the case.

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I don't think it's just the bolded, but it's also about how Nintendo themselves view third parties and especially Western third parties.

MUA3 is a huge sign of renewed interest from Nintendo in licensing Western third party properties.

 

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I don't think it's just the bolded, but it's also about how Nintendo themselves view third parties and especially Western third parties.

MUA3 is a huge sign of renewed interest from Nintendo in licensing Western third party properties.

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Fair point, i didnt think about that. Do you think that Nintendo will invest more into western third party property going forward?

 

[Skittzo]

Fair point, i didnt think about that. Do you think that Nintendo will invest more into western third party property going forward?

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I think MUA3 is a clear sign of that, yeah. I could also see them going after the James Bond license again, or as someone earlier in this thread suggested licensing out a Star Wars game whenever EA's rights to it expire.

 

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With Nintendo dominating Japan, I expect the next big wave of Japanese software to be Switch focused, too big a market to ignore.

 

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Nintendo has until the next gen consoles release, I doubt those games will have switch ports

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Yeah, I also remember people saying back in November 2016 that the Switch won't be able to get PS4/XBOX games either, and Nintendo owners should just accept that they won't get anything beyond last-gen ports...