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I don't understand the point of Sephiroth at all. It makes so little sense due to FF7 being so associated with Sony. Why is Nintendo promoting it competitors? We all know Square Enix have massive bias towards Sony as well. I really don't see the point.

@BanjoPickles I wouldn't use "sale data" or "install base" to disregard if a port will be successful or not on the Switch.

@mikegamer Counted like 5 out 19 posts were above yours are either neutral or negative....

Wasn't the PS3 version released for $39.99 USD? That's one heck of a markup for few years old ports. Do they want their game(s) to flop?

Got burnt on the first game, digitally. Going to wait for a sale. Not going to purchase at full price.

"A disgruntled former employee..." Is a horrible chocie of words for someone that in all likelihood was illegally laid off. If you was fired illegally you wouldn't call yourself "disgruntled" if you sued.

What else could be expected, this company is owned by Square Enix.

@EightBitMan I'm wondering what troll company payroll are you on? Do you mind telling me? Help NintendoLife block such useless statements such as yours.

Oh Shoot! A company that remembers cheat codes verus microtransactions! Shocking right, yall!

Sure, I bet Dragon Quest, with shorten localization time, will become a Sony exclusive leaving Nintendo in the dust. SquareEnix is going to SquareEnix.

@TMG44 That would be the number shipped to stores and not necessary the total number in customer hands. Also, I did forget about digital purchases as well, generally with Japan digital ratio isn't as high as it is in the West.

@TMG44 Where are you getting that 350,000 figure from in Japan. AS of February, 2018 from Media Create charts:
https://gematsu.com/2018/02/media-create-sales-1-29-18-2-4-18

Monster Hunter XX was at 211,111 units sold. So, are you telling me that Monster Hunter moved another 150,000 units? With in that time frame? Come on now. I didn't mention the 3DS version because that is literally a different case. But, I'm not well informed. Come at me again, bro.

@ghasfarost The game only moved a bit over 200,000 units on the Switch, in Japan. Granted, one, MH XX shouldn't have even existed, given Capcom had promised no ultimate version of Monster Hunter X, but Capcom backtracked on that promised.

I bet dollars to donuts that Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate isn't going even have 1/100ths of the marketing budget that Monster Hunter World received. Furthermore, if World is going to be the series template going forward, then why release Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate now? No marketing nor updated gameplay feedback loop, what are the reasons for releasing this game? It doesn't make any sense.

The only thing that works in Monster Hunter Generation Ultimate favor in the West is the utter lack of 3D action games on the Switch from third parties.

@Joeynator3000 They are setting this game up to fail.

Why bother? Capcom? That company is full of so much poo. The public is going to perceive this as a "lesser" version of Monster Hunter. Thus, Capcom is setting this game up to fail so they can ditch supporting Monster Hunter on Nintendo platforms.

It is a typeo. There is no way Capcom, a company that needs a welfare check from a console maker in order to make original games, is going to support the Switch. So, I wouldn't expect a thing from Capcom.

It gives me life knowing that people are pressed as hell that the 3DS is still getting support....

@Yosher Those are a list of first party IPs. Not third party games.

@Octane Yet, the Dragon Quest spins off on PC/PS4/Vita flopped as well. This is a company that released a Vita game THIS year in 2018. There is no excuse on why the 3DS game cannot come to the West.

@Anti-Matter It wasn't my intention to be disrespectful towards you. It is just that I don't trust third parties with a clear Sony bais.

@Fight_Teza_Fight DQ XI is using UE4, a engine that is already on the Switch. A engine were we have indies getting a working a prototype of ports from the PS4 of their game in terms of weeks if not days.

Here, we have Abstraction Games, a much smaller studio:

...created a Switch port of the hit PC game in a matter of weeks - much to the delight of Ark creators Studio Wildcard.

From the CEO of Abstraction Games:

"Most companies usually have a Plan A and a Plan B, and it's Plan B that they're banking on. But we delivered Plan A, and they didn't expect it. They wanted a first playable at this point, but we actually have created something you could almost send for certification. That's how we try to operate. They didn't expect that...

And we have Sumo Digital here

"We got the code across onto Switch - or at least certain parts of it - in a matter of hours, so we started becoming more confident that we could achieve what we wanted and within the timescales we were looking at. Within seven days, we had it fully playable."

So, no it shouldn't take that long for a Switch Port nor is it on the Hardware like you claim. So, please get your fact right.

Thanks.

@JaxonH You said it was speculation. It wasn't speculation. Two, in order for Capcom to request more RAM the architecture(ARM) would have had been decided already decided at the time at the time the NX was shown to 3rd parties. Considering how close Capcom was to Nintendo, you think that Nintendo would show off the prototype(s) of the NX during 2016? come on now? Furthermore, we have the Nvidia CEO, in late 2016 saying that they were working with Nintendo for the last two years! The NX development started late 2014. So, you think that Nintendo wouldn't have let Capcom know what Iwata and co were planning on until 2016? Does that make any sense? Especially, when the Switch is using an off the shelf processor?

@JaxonH Eurogamer reported SDK were sent out http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-10-16-nintendo-now-handing-out-nx-console-developer-kits-report and it wasn't speculation. The architecture would had have been already finalized, considering, NVIDIA wrote the development tools. If the architecture wasn't finalized, why would Capcom request more RAM?

@JaxonH you are wrong. Capcom knew about the Switch before 2016. Nintendo wouldn't have changed the Switch specs around via Capcom request and we knew that developers had SDK in 2015.

@aaronsullivan Sony payment system for PSN sucks to the point where it would reject your credit/debit card for no clear reason. This, people buying the cards from a third party vendor such as Amazon.

@dres Do you mean the UK or ALL of Europe? The Switch is keeping pace with the Wii in France....

@WhistleFish Nintendo was prototyping the Switch in 2008 ish. Heck the initial idea of the Wii U was for the tablet to be standalone. Another Wii U prototype had two Wii Remotes attached to LCD display.

Quorthon is a poster on Gameinformer site. He goest by RezidentHazard (Skeptical Inquirer). He posted a lot of Nintendoom stuff on Gameinformer's blog platform: http://www.gameinformer.com/members/residenthazard/blogs/default.aspx

The whole article is a strawman. I wonder why I even bother with this site sometime with writing like this.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE You are wrong, yet again, the European box art is epically good.

@greengecko007 That data they based that statement most likely was outdated. Dragon Quest XI was released July 29 and that statement was made Aug 4. PS4 preorders, if I can recall was slightly ahead of the 3DS's preorders. However, the 3DS did come out on top during release week.

@JJ286 Yelp! I mean, maybe if third parties would release quality retail titles...then maybe...nevermind.

@Menchi187 NPD numbers leaked on another message forum (I first saw them on Neogaf):

Hardware (Top 3):
NSW: 222K
PS4: 217K (+34.7%)
3DS: 105K (-44.3%)

Software (Top 3):
PS4: 2299K (+52.0%)
NSW: 736K
3DS: 384K (-49.2%)

Splatoon 2 #1 332k

@Ernest_The_Crab Your number for the PS4 version is wrong. 172,000 was the latest confirm data that was released by Nippon Ichi.

To address the Japanese sales, typically when it came to the Sony portable ports of Disgaea, Nippon Ichi had much better bonus materials than just the DLC in order to get double dippers. They took the lazy approach when it came to the Switch and just bundle the existing DLC and didn't add anything new to it. Also, it docked mode it doesn't even change the resolution (it is running with portable clocks while in docked mode). The sales of the over 100,000 when PS4 version only did 172,000 (confirmed and not that VGChartz pie in the sky number of 350,000) is more than what Nippon Ichi deserve honestly.

@GrailUK That poster stay talking out of the the wrong hole.

@electrolite77 Doesn't mean that Monster Hunter World is going to set the world on fire on those three platforms. Those platforms have there bomba and flops. Look at Mass Effect Andromeda. With the developer talking about "demand" for the title on the Switch, that game ended up flopping hard than a fish fresh out of the ocean.

@PlywoodStick Youtube RE7 on intel graphics. It is running on Intel graphics (not the greatest mind you but it is running and the Switch GPU is much better than that) Heck, you can check out video of it runing on GT 820M as well.

@Grudgebearer That 10% of gamer is some bullpoopzie figure. Does it even matter considering Nintendo was picking up the localization tab for it.

This whole article is a mess. The game, Monster Hunter World, is on the MT Framework; which games work on at a playable framerate on Intel Integrated graphics like HD 4000 (the Switch crushes this GPU in handheld mode alone) like Resident Evil 7. You can't hide behind a freaking "power argument". Furthermore, you can't say that it is a "numbers" thing on Capcom's POV when it cost a hell of a lot more to develop for Xbox One and PS4 development for Monster Hunter World.

@electrolite77 Check Nintendo's Financial records.

XX isn't going to be localized in order to boost the sales of the MH:Worlds according to an insider at Neogaf.

@gatorboi352

|Gatorboi352 wrote Switch cannot handle the Frostbite |engine. It's as simple as that, there's no conspiracy or |"hating" going on here with EA.

You post is full with crap. Frostbite engine can run on Haswell intergrated graphics. Pretty sure the Switch GPU is much stronger than that. Heck, FIFA 17 can run on the Geoforce 820m, which the Switch GPU clocks can beat performance wise while in handheld mode.

Take your trolling some well else please.

Thanks from the NintendoLife community.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Your first post is factually incorrect.

@MarcelRguez Open world games don't sell on Nintendo systems? What the heck is Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild then? It isn't an open world. It just sold 1.3 million units of software in the U.S. this past month.

@PlywoodStick And you are making comparisons to throw shade at Nintendo. Look up the term seasonality. Then we can talk. The Switch just had the second best launch ever in the U.S. in terms of hardware sales.

@PlywoodStick Does it even matter that Nintendo won't match Dec 2009? It is something that Nintendo did and Sony didn't. Does it even matter that Sony sold 1 million during a freaking well known shopping holiday in the U.S.?

@PlywoodStick Call me when Sony have two systems that move over 3 million EACH in one month. Go check out Wii and the DS sales December 2009 in the U.S.

@Action51 And when the Switch catches up to the PS4 Lifetime to Date sales(in Japan), everyone will handwave or dismiss it...

@manu0 That would be a nice option. Maybe I will wait for a sale once I actually get the Switch. I even brought the DLC for the Wii U version. Or at least update the Wii U version for the AI changes.