Devolver Digital Praises Nintendo's "Fantastic" Indie Support During Switch Generation

After the Wii U it's so refreshing to see so many positive stories for a Nintendo system again. I also don't think this will fade out like the Wii did in its last 2 to 3 years. Switch is here to stay!

ask yourself this..Without indies, what would the switch’s library look like as of right now?

@Mgene15 Here's a better question:

Without indies, what would any console's game library look like as of right now?

Nintendo has video games. As opposed to glorified $60 shells of games that depend on manipulative practices to get people to spend hundreds more on the same underwhelming product before another one comes a year later to make it obsolete.

@Mgene15 - Without indies... What would the other two look like right now?

Pay $1.99 to find out!

@Paraka
Or wait during an Anthem loading screen instead.

@Mgene15

Bait

@westman98 - To be honest I cared so little about Anthem I haven't even heard how bad the loading times are.

And here I am painfully enduring Pixeljunk Monsters 2's loading times.

@RyanSilberman a boatload of AAA’s. There’s more AAA’s coming both this and last month to PS4 than the switch has to offer its entire library.

@Mgene15 And he answered that question for you, but called AAA games “glorified $60 shells of games that depend on manipulative practices to get people to spend hundreds more on the same underwhelming product before another one comes a year later to make it obsolete“. I mean reading comprehension, WHAT’S THAT?

I’ll just break it down to u fanboys like this.. just these 2 months to get a sense.. and don’t respond with “I don’t even want to play those games” because that’s not the point..

Ps4 this and last month without indies : Anthem,Division 2, kingdom hearts 3, RE 2 remake,Metro exodus,Far cry new dawn, Devil May cry,Sekiro (from software title)

Switch without indies this year so far : fifty year old port of new super Mario bros u..

Devolver is the dopest publisher ever. Can we all agree on that?

@robr
I dig Devolver 👍

@Mgene15 You....do know there have been games released last year, too, right? And the year before that? Who gives a crap about the relative quantity of games releasing on other platforms?

I care about what I would like to play out of the ones that are releasing, and they sure as heck aren't any of the titles you mentioned. I still haven't even picked up Arms, Donkey Kong, Captain Toad, Octopath, Mega Man X Legacy Collections, Fe, Mario Tennis, or Mario Party. And I still need to get Bayonetta 1 & 2, Splatoon 2, and Pokemon back out from my backlog.

And I'm PRETTY SURE there are people as occupied as I am. That's without even covering all the indies to catch up on.

@Mgene15 You’re right! Stein’s Gate Elite, Tales of Versperia, FF IX, Trials Rising, and Travis Strikes Again are all really good indie games.

@Mrtoad - Those don't count cause they're also on Switch, that'd be counter-productive.

I don’t even want to play those games that @Mgene15 and @RyanSilberman and @Mrtoad mentioned.

@robr Then......Don't?

@RyanSilberman you choosing not to want to play those games is not the point. The point is, that’s the games the come out for ps4 without indies, and the same timeframe roughly nothing but indies comes to the switch. That’s how it’s been most months. My original point was without indies, the switch has relatively nothing new to play. That’s why there relying so heavy on them, the other 2 systems don’t have to do that.

@Mrtoad yeah Travis strikes again is a really good game.. said nobody lol

@Mgene15 Yeah, and your point sucks. All you're doing is finding an excuse to badmouth a system for a problem it doesn't have in the reality we're actually living in. And by basing it off of a quantity of releases in this particular period of a few months, which has actually seen third-party Switch releases too? Give me a break.

The indies are here to stay. There are great experiences that come from them. There's some third party AAA stuff for you to stick into a pipe and smoke as well. Leave it at that.

EDIT: Oh, so now you're highlighting the quality of a game when it's convenient for YOUR side of an argument. La de da....

@Mgene15 Yeah Travis Strikes Again is as good of an indie, as Shovel Knight is a good AAA game.

I’m speaking facts, which you don’t like to hear. Which is why you’re a fanboy. I love the switch, I point out it’s positives and negatives. Which is why I pointed out the heart of the switch is indies, where’s ps4’s and xbox’s Isn’t.. I’m not going to month by month because it’s the same thing basically since March of 2017. No need to get mad at the fact. And I love some indies, hollow knight was my favorite game last year on the switch. I will stick it all in my pipe and smoke it, well the good stuff that is.

@Mrtoad whatever it is that you’re smoking , I’d like to try! But hey if your opinion is that it’s a good game, then that’s all that matters, more power to ya!

@Mgene15 "Travis isn't good lol" is not a fact. Neither is what you think of a shift in the library. It's all opinion, and the big problem here is the way you smugly preach it as fact.

I just scrolled through about fifty games and without indie games that were already on PC, Xbox, PS4, and my cell phone; I’d be left with a bunch of old arcade ports and classic game bundles that I played once and I got over the nostalgia and were already on PC, Xbox, PS4 and my cell phone. Oh, and Zelda.

@robr see you get it!

@RyanSilberman see robr’s latest post

@Mgene15 I could care less about his evidently selective taste in games. That wasn't what this was about.

But whatever keeps that happy face emoji erect, I guess.

@RyanSilberman you continue to miss the point of my original statement. But it’s over. We’ve established that I’m your daddy. I’ll be home at 3

Man, "AAA" has become such an overused buzzword.Furthermore, the term "indie" has turned into a bad word for no reason. "AAA" =/= quality. Look at the games that came out last month, Wargroove scored just as high or even better than the "AAA" games like Metro, Far Cry, anthem and Jump Force.

@Mgene15 KH3 is the best indie crossover game yet. Weird that Square Enix chose such a small indie like Disney. Square Enix really should've teamed up with the multi billion dollar franchise known as Wargroove.

AAA vs. Indie battle? What happened, did we accidentally wind up in a playground?

AAA is a video game publisher code word for 5 hour cut scenes, bookended with a few hundred QTE’s. Unless you’re Nintendo. In which case, it means your children are playing a game with a central theme of coercing a kidnapped woman into a forced marriage.

@Mgene15 If you have the time to play them all then you must have a sad life. Majority of people don't have the time or the money needed to play every release so they don't mind playing smaller quality games that launch first on Switch rather than massive, expensive experiences, that while may be good can suck up too much time or money. It's not really a competition. It's a matter of consumer preference. People who want big AAA games will have bought a ps4 or a pc.(also there is only 4 good games in that AAA list of yours)

As I stated before, I love indies as well. All I said was the bulk majority of titles on switch is indies and not much else.fanboys started crying after that statement.. There’s no indie vs AAA argument from me.

@Mgene15 There are more AAA games coming to Switch than PS4. You got it all wrong.

Indie is a video game publisher codeword for something that takes up a couple hundred kilobytes in your hard drive, but drops frames on a $1,200 video card.

The best benefit of indie games is that gaming has become affordable! I have over 40 games in my library but only 6 of them are 'big' games. When a new release sets you back in the region of a tenner and can often offer 10-20 hours gameplay you know you're on to a winner.

@Mgene15

OK you past the limit of the amount of times I am willing to see the term "fanboy". Onto the ignore list you go.

There are a lot of smaller titles available, some of which are fantastic games and do certainly show that you don't need millions of pounds/dollars to make something worth playing.

It's nice to hear positive stuff about a Nintendo console once again, especially after the WiiU era.

@SBandy it’s not worth ignoring him. Remember, we were all 12 at one point.

@WiltonRoots

Haha true but I just don't have the patience I once did!

@Mgene15 While we Switch fans clearly can’t argue with the number of AAA games you listed for PS4, aside from Kingdom Hearts III and the Resident Evil 2 remake, I wouldn’t give a thank you for any of the games you listed.

And that really is the point. You can have all the £50/$60 AAA titles in the world, but if they pale in significance to the Nintendo’s breadth of first-party titles, what is the point?

@The_Pixel_King Yes but look at what you're missing out on of late, look at the diversity!

Destiny 2 - First person shooter, rubble.
Fallout 76 - First person shooter, rubble.
Battlefield V - First person shooter, rubble.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 - First person shooter, rubble.
Call of Duty - First person shooter, rubble
Far Cry New Dawn - First person shooter, rubble.
Metro - First person shooter, rubble.
The Division 2 - Cover based third person shooter, rubble.
Anthem - Third person shooter, rubble.

Coming soon
Halo Infinite - First person shooter, rubble.
Rage 2 - First person shooter, rubble.
Doom Eternal - First person shooter, rubble
Gears of War 5 - Cover based third person shooter, rubble.
Days Gone - Third person shooter/melee, rubble.
Wolfenstein Youngblood - First person shooter, rubble.
Cyberpunk 2077 - First/third person shooter, rubble.
Sekiro - Dark Souls with samurais.

Simply amazing and so far it leads to exclusives as well or limited time exclusives. Love is definitely in the air.

@WiltonRoots
That is a very selective list you are posting here. Titles you are omitting, and since you put in systems exclusives like Gears of War 5, or Halo Infinite, I will include system eclusives also in my list. Also despite you doing not the same, I made an effort to list only games of 2019 and maybe beyond.

Released
Kingdom Hearts - Action RPG
Resident Evil 2 - Survival Horror
God Hunter 3 - Monster Hunterlike

Coming soon:
Devil May Cry V - Fighter
Death Stranding - Survival Horror
Dead or Alive 6 - VS Fighter
Shenmue III - Action RPG
Dreams - Sandbox Game
Ori and the Will of the Wisps - Jump'n'Run
Psychonauts 2 - Platformer
Final Fantasy VII REMake - RPG
MediEvil - Platformer

Granted, the Switch made some juicy announcements with it's latest direct, but also some announcemnets will be happening for the other consoles.

This should not be about "Switch ain't got no games", but at least try and don't omit titles that don't fit in your narration. In addition I would love to have a Dark Soulsesque game or the occ. shooter on the switch, additional to the line up of the Switch.

@Lemmy_the_Koopa I was only on a windup, hence the emoji...but you have to admit there's an awfully large amount of shooters!

@WiltonRoots Not a point I am disputing . But I would wager (without any evidence right now to back that up), that there was always a disproportionate amount of shooters since the rise of Call of Duty on PS4, Xbox and partially PC (at least from AAA studious), so this is nothing new.

I suppose it fits Delvolver's own narrative and branding quite well to still be considered "indie", even if they are a very high grossing publisher.

I fully expect Nintendo to treat Devolver a lot better than some of the more well, indie, indies.

I LOVE YOU DEVOLVER!

@WiltonRoots

To be fair, only Doom is a first-person shooter.
The rest are crappy movies with some gameplay or exercises in how manyy racial slurs you can handle over a headset from anonymous preteen boys. 😁

@robr Lol I think you've pretty much nailed it!

Devolver digital are pretty good. But if they wanna be great in my eyes they'll need to give me a release date for My Friend Pedro

@RyanSilberman Don't feed the troll

@peanutbuttercup

My Friend Pedro is a Switch console exclusive, for those enjoying the rest of the comment section.