The Nintendo Switch's third-party support is decent, but noticeably small. Will it improve? Nintendo of America's president weighs in.
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True, they have pretty different audiences..and some People just have both at home or a PS and a PC that emulates more or less everything from Nintendo.
Xbox hasn't been a competitor since the XB360. Last generation and this generation Sony has been running circles around Xbox. As for Sony vs Nintendo Sony runs circles yes but I don't really see Nintendo as competition. Nintendo does their own thing and it works.
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Details are important. Console sales yes. Overall games Xbox seems to be doing fairly well in that department.
MS were doing so well that they had to start selling their games on their main competitors system which in turn results in around 30% of each sale going to Sony as the platform holder.
I do think tjat MS' fortunes will improve now that they are actually selling games rather than giving them away for pennies on the dollar.
Something that occurs to me is that the more success MS published games have elsewhere, the more stark it will become that selling games is much more profitable than renting them. If that becomes highly noticable, I wonder what the shareholders (who ultimately run the show) will make of a service which has stagnated for years?
PlayStation doesn't compete with third party games, they compete on consoles. They profit from third party games. If you're not comparing consoles there's no point in comparing.
I think it's all PS fans have left at this point. Console wars were always a competition for fourth place behind Nintendo, PC and mobile. If Xbox evaporates into a hybrid virtual platform, then PS will be perennially left in last place.
Strange, I recall all those FCC documents and witness testimonies saying the exact opposite... Guess Microsoft doesn't know what it's talking about?
Great analysis. Just joking.
Pretending like companies give a f about where they “rank” against each other is just super retarded. This isn’t the World Cup.
Tell me, how does “PC” compete against a brand like PlayStation? It just doesn’t make sense at all. What you just said, is complete and utter nonsense
I don't think PS cares about being in this so-called "last place" you came up with when they're making profits hand over fist.
microsoft wanted to crush sony into dust and they had the money to do it, but with such weak leadership it was always going to fail
Had the money? They still have the money but the industry has changed since xbox 360. Microsoft is the number one publisher in gaming. I'd hardly call that failing.
The industry hasn't changed though, just ms, Microsoft was the no1 publisher for a month in december 2024, the actual no1 for fy2024 was tencent if game sales are all that's being counted.
Money doesn't mean you'll be successful large corporations have entered and failed before like Nec
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As long as Reggie is in Nintendo, things will no improve at all. In any scenario, not just third parties.
Nintendo's hurdle when it comes to this topic is 100% around the stink their consoles have begun to carry when it comes to 3rd party software sales. Nintendo has always had 2 things in their favor: 1) Console sales that are decent to great (WiiU not withstanding) 2) tremendous 1st party support & 1st party software sales. Nintendo has consistently failed when it comes to 3rd party software sales. If Nintendo truly wants 3rd party support in a meaningful way they need to figure out a way to make their systems the "go to" system for playing 3rd party content. If that console isn't the defacto "I am buying it here cause it plays best on XYZ" and if consumers actually feel its the inferior place to play the game then that 3rd party support will remain negligible i the big picture.
I think Switch has the possibility of being a compelling console to buy 3rd party games for given the portability factor but I fear once again the lower spec of their console is going to ultimately keep that from happening. I also don't see Nintendo being interested in an tech arms race but instead I think they will continue to try and catch Wii lightening in a bottle again and are happy to do so as long as their 1st party software sells well.
"the majority of them seem to be steering clear of the Switch. Many fans saw this as being odd since Nintendo seemed adamant about bringing strong third-party support to the new platform"
I didn't see that as odd, I saw that as normal for what Nintendo does.
They make weak hardware, developers come at launch annnnnnnnnd see you next gen. Some developers are not even coming with content we used to see on there too. Look at Capcom saying RE isn't even coming to Nintendo systems.
Amazing how with little third party support Nintendo won E3 2017. They won with spectacular first party games. I don't see the need to run out and get a Xbox One or Playstation 4. You're not suppose to buy a Switch looking for great third party support anyways.