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With Nintendo's momentum and growing install base, I feeptimistic third party will flourish
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third-party is already seeing strong success among indie titles and third-party games that wouldn't normally make a dent in other western markets. i think the main takeaway here is going to be that people should not expect a 1:1 with other platforms when it comes to the term 'success.' the switch's third-parties can be successful selling several games that hit the 300k-500k mark, not having to clear some insane mark ten times that amount to cover marketing expenses and years of development among hundreds of people. the ecosystem is going to be different, more akin to what the ps2 or ds allowed when it came to smaller games in the west.
Feel Optimistic -A fellow mobile user of this website
(Why are these text boxes so glitchy on mobile anyway? The auto correct tends to remove characters and the text box just fuses words as a result)
(Why are these text boxes so glitchy on mobile anyway? The auto correct tends to remove characters and the text box just fuses words as a result)
I'm not feeptimistic at all, OP. Console isn't a DS to be cheap enough to make exclusive games for and big third parties don't look very interested at all.
Your last point boggles my mind.
Oh, for exclusives???
Probably.
This kind of statement is just not based in reality. Have you actually looked at the numbers? How much time have you spent with the console? ALSO: Feeptimistic is a great word. Someone get Webster's on the line.
I share your feeptimism, OP. Especially as far as middle-tier budget titles and indies go, there's a lot to feep great about. "Third party" as a term doesn't only apply to huge-budget graphical showcases. I have a feeping that some of the larger third parties are currently getting some things together for Switch after initially being surprised by its success.
Same. Hope it pans out and I have a bitchen line up for when I decide to get me one of these.
We'll see. The Wii and WiiU had a lot of third-party support at launch too. However, that soon ended once publishers realized that customers generally weren't interested in inferior ports of games that came out years ago. Granted, the Switch ports are more recent but they are drastically inferior to the other platforms. I don't really see publishers making Switch exclusives either, as that doesn't fit with their multiplatform business model.
I predict that indies will continue to do pretty well, though as the Switch marketplace becomes saturated, it'll be harder to stand out and we'll see fewer big successes. AAA publishers will eventually ditch the platform, as their multiplatform releases won't sell enough on Switch to offset the costs involved in porting them.
I predict that indies will continue to do pretty well, though as the Switch marketplace becomes saturated, it'll be harder to stand out and we'll see fewer big successes. AAA publishers will eventually ditch the platform, as their multiplatform releases won't sell enough on Switch to offset the costs involved in porting them.
FEEPTIMISTIC. God please let this thread flourish, I need it.
(Also, third parties are already flourishing. They're called indies.)
(Also, third parties are already flourishing. They're called indies.)
Well third party is not only ports, plenty of TP games had success on the Wii just not the ones you would expect (and many times wasn't technically possible anyways)
Switch is selling well but only time will tell how third parties approach this , one positive example already is the last gen remasters/ports because they are easier to do and portability is appealing.
Dark Souls remaster, Dragon Ball, Skyrim, etc.
As long as you have realistic/reasonable expectations you will be good
Real talk I am an indie developer who may publish something on the Switch
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This. Would a typical, cookie cutter AAA style third party game do well enough for the cost of the port to make it worth it aka RoI? Probably not. But smaller titles seem like they're doing ridiculously well, which is something we haven't seen in a long time.
Heres a pro-tip for newbies such as the OP in creating a thread.
PUT NOTHING IN THE THREAD TITLE TILL THE BODY IS READY TO GO.
PUT NOTHING IN THE THREAD TITLE TILL THE BODY IS READY TO GO.
What? Lmao
Im just picturing a meeting of suits at Bethesda deciding to greenlight a DOOM port because one guy said "we don't wanna hurt switch owners' feelings"
That's ridiculous. They are porting them because there is money to be made
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