Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@MsJubilee It won't sell well in Japan but part of the reason for this drastic change is that Capcom want to grow the franchise worldwide as they say in the interview.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE While not exactly helping to retain the original crowd on Nintendo systems in the West.

Nintendo made the decision of releasing weak hardware for the 3rd generation in a row, not Capcom. Capcom asked Nintendo for more power. I'm playing Devil's advocate.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE And yet they got that power they asked for. Nintendo gave that to them, so they have no excuse.

@UmniKnight I doubt it, Nintendo most likely compromised if at all. Where's the support from Capcom so? All they've released is a port with another gimped port collection on the way. MH XX didn't make it outside of Japan, which, you guessed it, is another port. "Portcom".

@SLIGEACH_EIRE What's gimped about Resident Evil?

Sony paid for exclusivity in Japan. And Capcom likely didn't anticipate the Switch or it's success at the time. In fact, the game started development a year after Wii U launched. And they sure as heck weren't gonna port to Wii U. So they chose their platforms and now we're seeing the result of that.

But even if they wanted to port to Switch now to capitalize on the portable market, they can't. They let Sony pay them for exclusivity in Japan (which at the time probably seemed like a good idea- it can't run on 3DS and Wii U was a flop) so what's the point of developing a portable Switch version that can't be sold in Japan?

So you see, this game was never and will never come to Switch. No Japan = pointless. We've discussed it to death and nothing has changed since then. MH will come to Switch. The only question is if it'll be ground up exclusive or a dual release with 3DS (which will continue to hold the game back)

Knock it off with the power discussion, it's ridiculous. If DOOM 2016 and Wolfenstein II can be tweaked to run on the Switch, practically anything can. The real discussion revolves around whether a developer thinks the time/money investment in doing so is in their best interest.

Bottom line: Capcom doesn't want to spend money optimizing for Switch right now, especially with a game that Sony has padded their pockets to keep exclusive for a long time, most likely. When Switch has 20+ mil install base and buying tendencies per genre are more clear, Capcom may start to sing a different tune.

Yeah, makes you wonder why **yawn** Nintendo didn't just **yawn** make a PS4/X1 clone - having yet another powerful, TV-tethered brick on the market would have really **yawn** captured peoples imaginations...

@Spoony_Tech Revelations 2 is a download code.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE How's that gimped?

@rallydefault I hope by that time, Dauntless has taken the lion's share of their sales. Nothing would please me more.

@JaxonH "MH will come to Switch. The only question is if it'll be ground up exclusive or a dual release with 3DS (which will continue to hold the game back" Now if anything came out of Capcom's mouth to give me a genuine reason to believe this, fantastic. But nothing of the sort, probably because they're too busy with World and taking Sony's money to advertise the hell out of it.

@Spoony_Tech I don't want a download code. They're selling it as a Collection and individually. In the collection, Revelations is on a cartridge because it's smaller, a game most Nintendo fans have played and own physically. They've cheaped out, it would have been better if the second game was on cartridge but that would require a 32GB cartridge. Actually, I think in Europe the Collection is digital only.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE But that's not gimped. It might not be to your liking but gimped would mean it lacks features and such.

I did however hear Japan got both on the cart. Either way I'm just happy I get to play the game.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Don't get in to PC gaming then - most 'physical' PC games these days are pretty much just Steam download codes disguised as a disc...

Also, just because you have to download something, it doesn't make it 'gimped' - not in any way, shape or form...digital games are more convenient and have (generally) faster load times - so, if anything, physical games are the releases that are actually 'gimped' (compromised) in some way...

(..don't get me wrong - as a bit of a collector, I prefer physical releases - but there's no real advantage to having a physical copy of a game)

@NaviAndMii I'll be frank, I've said many times that I'd love to have the Switch be more powerful, the reason being that I'd like to take their excuse of "Switch has weak hardware, not worth our time porting/downgrading" away.

Besides, you say boring box, but can you imagine Nintendo's games when they had a ton of power behind them? What those creative minds could do with that?

@Snaplocket
Um ya? The game is exclusive to PS4 in Japan, what other evidence is needed? No Xbox and no PC versions in Japan. PS4 only. Add to that the limited edition Rathalos PS4 Pro in Japan, and the fact they announced straight up, "The game will be exclusive to PS4 in Japan". All this confirming the rumor which predicted a deal had been made for the next game and exclusivity.

@MegaTen

Will the JP version of Resident Evil Revelations Collection have English? I'll import if it all comes on cart and has English.

Right now I have the NA version preordered but I'd love to switch versions if it meant getting 2 separate carts (And how does that work, cause it's physically impossible to fit both games on a cart, seeing as it's a combined total of like 45gb or something)

@JaxonH Sounds like these games could do with some Nintendo compression magic.

@JaxonH 2 separate carts I though I heard.