Comment by mitthrowaway2
Comment by mitthrowaway2 2 days ago
This is true. But high specs are a big win anyway if it opens up access to a bigger library of 3rd party games.
Comment by mitthrowaway2 2 days ago
This is true. But high specs are a big win anyway if it opens up access to a bigger library of 3rd party games.
That's true, but Nintendo's counter to that is exclusive games, and they have big series like Mario, Zelda, Smash Bros. There's also newer ones that are more niche, but at least for me it's just the game where some new Smash Bros character comes from.
With exclusives games, emulation can be a problem, but many Nintendo games also rely on the novel things on their platform. For instance the Mario Party series has always tried to use something (rumble, mic, touchscreen, controller's shape).
This makes it necessary to get the console, and once you get market share it'll be worth porting and optimising games for an under-powered console (Celeste, Hollow Knight and probably every game runs worse on the switch, but it's playable). I'm not a gamedev, but it seems that nowadays it's easier than ever to port games since in practice there's fewer architectures around.