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Nintendo games i played are mixture of 1st party and 3rd party, Indie or Bigger companies. The 3rd parties i played are ports / multi release from other consoles and Nintendo exclusive 3rd party games.
@gcunit install base won't be that high for PS5 and neXtBOX. But from what we've heard theyre being smart with integration from the current gen (makes sense since it will basically be a hardware update on existing architecture), so the 120 million PS4 and 60 million XB1 owners will have incentive to continue. Add with it the 90 million on Steam.
But people are missing the point. Nintendo isn't competing with those platforms. Most hardcore gamers own a PC and a Switch, or a PS4/Xbox and a Switch (if they are interested in Nintendo exclusives). It's like saying mobile is competing with PC. It isn't.
Every hardcore RPG guy I know has a 3ds and a PS4 for example.
This is getting really old. Yes, there's a portion of the market owning a Switch next to an XB/PS, but there's definitely also a significant portion of the market choosing either an XB/PS or a Switch. Of course, I don't know the numbers, but let's not pretend the vast majority of the market consists of people owning multiple consoles, just because we are in this community.
@toiletduck Not everyone here has multiple consoles, unless you want to count my Wii U. To be honest the Switch is only a recent purchase because $300 gaming consoles isn't a priority, as I have no desire to run up credit cards debt to fuel my hobby.
The Switch will continue to be fine if those who own them continue to get good gaming opportunities on them. At this point, you are arguing that the Nintendo DS was going to struggle because it isn't getting the same games that the Xbox 360 and PS3 were going to get. The fact is that the general perception I find is that more or less is that the Switch is a handheld gaming system that happens to be dockable, so the expectations are not the same. The fact that it can manage basically manage everything up to the some of the XB1/PS4 library makes it a portable nostalgia machine.
The bigger question would be whether the other major third party studios follow in EA's footsteps and start ignoring the console, leaving only Nintendo, Second Party Partners, Mid-Sized Third Party publishers and Indies to carry the system? Myself, I think Ubisoft support will continue as long as Nintendo keeps giving them access to Nintendo properties; but the other major publishers always chase bleeding edge technology so eventually they will fade away (along with some of the minor large publishers.
It seems that to an extent Xbox will compete with Nintendo with Gamepass- but that's why it also might have made sense for them to partner. Nintendo can sell more systems if people had access to Gamepass and then MSFT would then get to sell their service to another user base.
I really don't care tho. I have enough AAA games on my almost five year old Xbox. I don't see a need to upgrade to an Xbox X anytime soon or maybe even ever and certainly won't care about the Next Gen for a while either.
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