They always do that even with the Wii U yet it never works out the way they planned. I barely managed to get a hold of one from Gamestop ;)

AAA
1. "AAA games" generally speaking need demanding hardware, proven online experiences, etc... therefore AAA games will not be making their way to Switch.

Indies & A-tier developers
2. Nintendo has restrictions on what can and can't be uploaded to their platform, and on top of that it cost significantly more to produce games on their cartridges than on a Blu Ray disc. So games that would be considered A-tier have to run the risk of losing their investment even if the game meets goal, because they took a lost on cartridges. Indies have to jump through too many hoops just to get their game cleared.

The device isn't powerful enough to run AAA-games. A-tier developers are generally spread thin, don't have huge budgets, and the risk/reward is slim on Nintendo platforms for 3rd parties on top of a higher cost media format. Indies having too many rules and regulations to get their games up and clear for eShop.

Altogether shows why games are lacking on Switch right now.

Great platform as a handheld, but it lacks the power needed for 3rd party and Nintendo business always hold themselves back.

@ ABizzel1

AAA games are games made by big studios with a significant budget not only for developing them but for their marketing as well. Power of the device they're being made for has nothing to do with a game being AAA or not. Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart are very much AAA games.

You can look here at number 9 as to the best guess:

http://mentalfloss.com/arti...

It is interesting how turns of phrase like this are born, and doubly so when we can only speculate as to their true origin, or why they became popular to begin with.

I've also had VERY good Cold cakes. I think I prefer COLD cakes

You just BURNT alot of people.

Lol

The WII was a lot of fun, sorry u didn't like it. The wii u was a steep in the right way but it should have never been made. "Hate" this new thing where Nintendo sells u full price games with no game in the box". I am Never buying a Nintendo system again.

"Only Nintendo games sale on Nintendo platforms. I highly doubt you'll be seeing huge third party titles"

If that's the case then there's no way in hell the switch will get anywhere near wii sales so many are boldly predicting. I love my switch but not having big 3rd party games will inevitably seal its fate.

"If that's the case then there's no way in hell the switch will get anywhere near wii sales so many are boldly predicting. "

Two things.

1) People project based off what figures indicate and people are interested in. Currently it is selling better than the Wii and track to achieve that level of sales. Based off the data it isn't impossible to believe, but only time will tell.
2) The Wii got there being cheap and generally lacking huge third party titles. You couldn't play Dead Space (minus Extraction or whatever), BioShock, Dead Rising 2 or later (Dead Rising on there is also better left forgotten...), Skyrim, GTA, Street Fighter IV, BlazBlue and countless others and it did fine. While the cost hurts the system, the ability to play things like Skyrim on the go is a huge perk for many.

"I love my switch but not having big 3rd party games will inevitably seal its fate."

It will have less sales (more content can't possibly decrease sales), but how much of an impact it makes is up in the air. However, games that are resource heavy or have a lot of online content, are likely to sell bad on the Switch anyway. As nice as portability is, people typically buy games to play with friends and with an established network, so even if Destiny could run on the Switch, I assume it would easily be the least popular. The same holds true for performance. Dead Rising gets a lot of flack for how poorly it ran on the Wii and it stands to reason people will pick better hardware over portability if hardware is a significant factor.

Monster Hunter says hi. As does Dragon Quest and plenty of others.

It's out tracking Wii sales. It sold more in it's first month than Wii U did in it's first year. Already has more support from 3rd party devs than Wii U did in all 5 years in Switchs first year alone. It has a modern and efficient chip set. An API that isn't GX but Vulkan & OpenGL 4.5. Native UE4 support and really easy to get UE4 games running on it. 20 UE4 Japanese games coming to it. nearly 200 games listed on Wikipedia. Aggressive marketing. Clear communication about the product to the customer. In no way at all is this like Wii U.

@segata 100% disagree with you

Segata Switch sales have been very similar to WiiU. WiiU had sold over 3 million by end of 2012. That was 6 weeks in America and about 4 in Europe. Less than 4 in Japan. Wasn't even release in some regions by then.

Switch had a worldwide release on March 3rd and was at 2.74 million after 4 weeks.

So, it really isn't impressive. It was spurred by Zelda, which many people waited years for.

We are talking about the Switch and the Switch only!! Not consoles that are dead and gone, and if we are talking about the Switch then it needs to be said that, Koei, Capcom, Level 5, SE, EA, 2k, Ubisoft, WB games, Mojang, Bandai Namco, Sega, Atlus, are all developing for Switch... Your comment holds very little ACTUAL information pertaining to the Switch. In fact this article ignores scores of third party games to argue an invalid point, such as you have done here!

While I'll agree with the main point, your supporting evidence is very weak. RE5 came out well before Wii U. RE6 was released a month before. So both would have been ports to a low selling console that had too many ports as it was. You conveniently left out RE4 because you knew it was on GameCube first and came to Wii. If you're bring FFX into this, RE4 is fair game for a counter argument. MGS4 also didn't come to Xbox 360 which was available well before release and at the time the better selling out of the PS3 and 360. MGSV came out after PS4 launched and the Wii U was already deemed a failure so a port of any kind wouldn't sell. Sure there's the PS3 version but that sold like crap in comparison on console with 80+ million. As you you pointed out, FFXV on what console. Nintendo doesn't have one that run it in its current state. They had trouble optimizing the PS4 version. FF13 came out well before the Wii U so again it would just be a port. FFX is fair because they could have ported to Wii like RE4 did. This especially true because Wii was successful for JRPGs but then you would have to concede all the handheld support and the Dragon Quest on Wii, etc over the years if we're going back that far. Also Xbox doesn't have FFX Remaster either. FF12 same. The sequel to FF12 was a DS or 3DS game. Also again this ignore Square support of DS/3DS and most likely future support of Switch.

What it comes down to is Nintendo has given developers reasons not to work with them. Since Wii they have underpowered hardware for a home console making it hard for anything but ports of older games and completely original games to flourish. New IP are fairly rare so that just leaves ports.

@C_A- those consoles are still relevant because they show there is a history of these companies not supporting platforms that have either limitations or are unable to sell their properties.

Yes those companies are working on the switch but a lot of those companies have also confirmed titles that won't even show up on the switch.

Capcom has stated Resident Evil will not appear on the switch but technically they've had this stance for Nintendo platforms since 2013 if you actually look up those releases.

Square Enix has just stated Final Fantasy 15 is not coming to the switch which only further confirms that this is the situation comparable to the previous systems.

I mean the Assassins Creed game based on the leaks is not coming to the switch which once again confirms this is a situation comparable to those previous systems where they were too weak.

I mean consider you never got Assassin's Creed Unity or Syndicate on the Wii U.

If you ever want to see what a company is likely to do in the future simply look at what they've done in the past.
There is a pattern in the history of these companies not supporting a Nintendo platform if it's too weak actually regardless of its sales.

Wii

@wolo-Resident Evil 5 and 6 were also re-released on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in completely skipped the Wii U in fact Revelations 2 and 2002 and Resident Evil Zero were also remastered and never appeared on the Wii U.

The very first Revelations game is being re-released on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One and it doesn't have a switch version.

To my understanding capcom's comments were Resident Evils were not coming to the switch they stated nothing about Resident Evil 7 which actually means they don't mean a single particular title it sounds like they mean the series in general but this simply support an idea that they've been doing since 2013 where Nintendo systems have been being skipped for Resident Evil re-releases and normal releases.

Final Fantasy 10 and Final Fantasy 12 are also being re-released that are not appearing on Nintendo platforms so please stop using the releases of The Originals as justification for them not appearing on Nintendo systems because for the most part that doesn't explain why they are not being re-released on Nintendo systems.... I mean Dream Drop Distance was completely remade in 3D for PlayStation 4 and completely skipped the Wii U or switch despite the original game existing on 3DS.

Facts

That it's not a subjective idea
that is not an opinion
that is not my personal view

that is something that is objective, it is a fact you can look up yourself.

They also launched right before the holiday season which is when a large number of popular games come out, not at the start of March, even the Wii-U's launch had a fairly significant amount of 3rd party games although some of them were older. If no new games are announced at E3 for the Fall then it probably won't have much support from big franchises, we won't really know until then.

Yeah I'm sure, 2 spinoffs, a couple of remasterd ps3 titles and a poor mans Crash Bandicoot doesn't really count

IMO

Bring up a MORE RECENT article, everything you post seems to be PRE LAUNCH lol....

_-EDMIX-_ You're an embarrassment..

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/...

Dude, I got my PS4 right after launch. Outside of the big AAA mega franchises, the want much for the first year and a half. Things were pretty sparse for the XBO as well.

I mean do you really not remember everyone dubbing PS4 the "IndieStation 4"? It's a great system, don't get me wrong. I love my PS4. But I'm not going to pretend that the first year or two didn't suck.

Every new platform is like that, and always have been in my near-25 years of gaming.