theclaw135
Banned
"A sign AAA first party games are slipping in their impact on the overall industry. " ??? nope.
https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/3/17314880/god-of-war-ps4-sales-record
https://blog.eu.playstation.com/201...on-sales-worldwide-ahead-of-its-1st-birthday/
First party games of course can still sell well and be highly acclaimed. I'm suggesting they're less essential than they used to be.
"It's not like third parties haven't been releasing and announcing great games for Switch"
They clearly are not when it comes to the top titles coming out, ie Far Cry, Assassins Creed, BF, COD, Red Dead the list goes on. This is basically sounding like Wii, Wii U etc all over again. I don't know how that is a great thing to be honest, less games isn't good so...
The same issue that made them lose lots of games those last gens, will continue to make them lose a lot this gen, from where I stand, nothing has really changed. We are still going into another gen with a boat load of games not coming to Nintendo platforms. This is what happens when you have a platform basically made for 1 publisher.
Sure, but does Switch particularly "need" those games? If commercially viable without them, it shows the system is succeeding in offering something else.