@SwitchForce We're talking about two different things here. I'm not talking about the success of the Switch, the Switch has two things that Sony doesn't which males their situation different --Nintendo's library of massively successful first party franchises, and a unified dev effort (all their games are on one platform.)
I think the Switch will remain successful with or without major AAA third party support, especially since for the most part they haven't gotten much of it.
Sony on the other hand relies on third party AAA game support, without it they can't compete with Microsoft. Nintendo is kind of in their own corner and has been since at least the Wii, but Sony and Microsoft work on a different strategy that demands major support from third party devs and can't necessarily break away from that strategy so easily.
@SwitchForce it runs fine on the Switch but with a lot of additional effort, and this is a current gen game made to run on 5 year old hardware.
Look to the next gen when the base model home consoles will be more powerful than the current Pro models. That will become the new aim of AAA game devs, and those games being ported over to something like the Switch will be either next to impossible or take way more effort than most devs would like to bother with.
That same reality would be true with Sony which doesn't have as strong of a first party game lineup to force onto their theoretical hybrid.
@NewAdvent I doubt it if only because Sony couldn't unify their platforms.
The best part of the Switch is that it's Nintendo's primary (increasingly only) platform with most if not all of their effort poured into it.
They're able to do this because they had no strong hold in the home market to lose and their last home console wasn't particularly powerful so a hybrid console like the Switch doesn't feel like a downgrade to past customers.
If Sony tried this their efforts would be immediately bifurcated. You'd have the PS4 team, the new Vita team, and probably a PS5 team as well.
Sony can't unify their platform because of the limits of portable technology. The Switch can play some modern AAA games with a lot of elbow grease (and help from Panic button) but it's clear that the hardware is at its limit with those.
We're at the end of the current generation and as the floor rises for AAA games a Sony hybrid console would have to rely on its own ecosystem separate from that of the PS5 which will undoubtedly go on to square off against a greatly specced up Xbox Two(???)
Now if they did this they could get some devs on board like they did with the PSP and less so with the Vita, but I think its highest aspiration would be a PSP type situation. A decent amount of sales made but a clear second place player in the market.
More likely then not though Sony wouldn't likely be patient enough with it in order for it to grow into a mature platform and you'd probably see another Vita situation.
Sony as a whole isn't what it use to be and its Playstation division is what brings in the most revenue, so its tolerance for failure and mediocrity there is likely quite limited as the rest of its divisions from mobile to films continues to flounder.
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Re: Soapbox: Huawei's Not The First Company To Vie For Nintendo's Portable Crown, And It Won't Be The Last
@SwitchForce We're talking about two different things here. I'm not talking about the success of the Switch, the Switch has two things that Sony doesn't which males their situation different --Nintendo's library of massively successful first party franchises, and a unified dev effort (all their games are on one platform.)
I think the Switch will remain successful with or without major AAA third party support, especially since for the most part they haven't gotten much of it.
Sony on the other hand relies on third party AAA game support, without it they can't compete with Microsoft. Nintendo is kind of in their own corner and has been since at least the Wii, but Sony and Microsoft work on a different strategy that demands major support from third party devs and can't necessarily break away from that strategy so easily.
And AAA games do sell extraordinarily well, last years best selling game was Call of Duty: WWII, and the next three games were all third party AAA games. https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2018/01/19/the-best-selling-video-games-of-2017/#2be0eac36226
Re: Soapbox: Huawei's Not The First Company To Vie For Nintendo's Portable Crown, And It Won't Be The Last
@SwitchForce it runs fine on the Switch but with a lot of additional effort, and this is a current gen game made to run on 5 year old hardware.
Look to the next gen when the base model home consoles will be more powerful than the current Pro models. That will become the new aim of AAA game devs, and those games being ported over to something like the Switch will be either next to impossible or take way more effort than most devs would like to bother with.
That same reality would be true with Sony which doesn't have as strong of a first party game lineup to force onto their theoretical hybrid.
Re: Soapbox: Huawei's Not The First Company To Vie For Nintendo's Portable Crown, And It Won't Be The Last
@NewAdvent I doubt it if only because Sony couldn't unify their platforms.
The best part of the Switch is that it's Nintendo's primary (increasingly only) platform with most if not all of their effort poured into it.
They're able to do this because they had no strong hold in the home market to lose and their last home console wasn't particularly powerful so a hybrid console like the Switch doesn't feel like a downgrade to past customers.
If Sony tried this their efforts would be immediately bifurcated. You'd have the PS4 team, the new Vita team, and probably a PS5 team as well.
Sony can't unify their platform because of the limits of portable technology. The Switch can play some modern AAA games with a lot of elbow grease (and help from Panic button) but it's clear that the hardware is at its limit with those.
We're at the end of the current generation and as the floor rises for AAA games a Sony hybrid console would have to rely on its own ecosystem separate from that of the PS5 which will undoubtedly go on to square off against a greatly specced up Xbox Two(???)
Now if they did this they could get some devs on board like they did with the PSP and less so with the Vita, but I think its highest aspiration would be a PSP type situation. A decent amount of sales made but a clear second place player in the market.
More likely then not though Sony wouldn't likely be patient enough with it in order for it to grow into a mature platform and you'd probably see another Vita situation.
Sony as a whole isn't what it use to be and its Playstation division is what brings in the most revenue, so its tolerance for failure and mediocrity there is likely quite limited as the rest of its divisions from mobile to films continues to flounder.
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@Maxz wait, you think squids are real???