RIP Switch

>>389747998
surely the digital version will be cheaper then

just get it on pc

who the fuck bought a switch for western games

>>389748059
this guy gets it

>>389748598
Not OP, but I know someone who stood in line to get a Switch for Mario & Rabbids.

>>389748598
>>389748830
>>389747998
Here's how to save third party: more exclusive games with Nintendo IPs licensed to third parties. Let the big N stop tightening its anus and let other developers handle their characters. Frenchies literally had tears in their eyes because they got to work on a Mario game.

Why did people suddenly give a shit about Ubisoft and Rabbids on a Nintendo console? Bing bing wahoo was in it.

We need The Elder Scrolls: Hyrule

We need Yakuza except with Donkey Kong characters

We need an actual SMT x FE

>>389747998
If the Switch's positive reception keeps going, I actually feel LA Noire will do well on Switch entirely due to Switch's portability

>>389747998
this thread is childish

>>389748598
Who the fuck would buy a a nogaems console?

>>389747998
This shouldn't be anything new, that was always the thing until the Wii sold like hotcakes and then third party went away from the Wii U. Though, there should be some third party support since it's easy to port games to the Switch.

>>389750405
Same reason why 80 million brought a PS3.

>>389747998
Where does he pull that from, his ass?

I want to see the numbers

WHERE ARE THE NUMBERS

>>389748059
It is.

>>389750629
LA Noire was like 18 gigs, why the fuck is the port twice the size while offering nothing new?

>>389750629
>ahmad post favoring tweets for Nintendo
>"LMAO GET REKT NINTENDONAYSAYERS"
>ahmad post non-favoring tweers for Nintentendo
>>>389750629 happens

>>389748059

Sometimes it happens. Sometimes it doesn't. Even when they do make the digital version cheaper people whine "IT'S CONSUMER UNFRIENDLY!"

Not that you'd want the digital version of this game when the switch only has 32 gb

>>389747998
>It's ok when Sony overprices its components tho!
Sonybros are the masters of mental gymnastics

>>389750709
isn't that what happens for the FF port to PC recently? a 40-50 something GB game exploding into 100+?

I thought the cartridge markup would be several hundred percent. 160% of the cost of a blu-ray is still fucking nothing.

>>389750612
billions of dollars poured into marketing, peer pressure and doublethink?

>>389750781
Yeah how the fuck does that happen?

>>389750780
outside of Vita this has literally never happened, and it's not even the same thing when it's about Vita's internal storage not the game carts themselves.

Meanwhile Nintendo's hard-on for carts has been a thing that has made them suffer in various ways sometimes throughout the ages.

>>389747998
>implying regular LA Noire wasn't a flop

>>389750901
Tell me about all those portable game consoles that used Blurays
No seriously if they actually exist i want to know

>>389750865
Compression is a lost art, and it's only going to become worse. Instead of keeping up the standards and reaping the benifits of the growing SSD install base, tech will keep mostly stagnating because most developers are lazy fucks when it comes to optimization and proper packing.
It's also why most games run like hot shit on consoles while still looking like garbage. Instead of using the increased resources to the best of their abilities, developers squander them because they don't have to be as careful anymore.

>>389750849
>PS2 is a successful and popular console
>"hey the next PS is out let's buy that"
>NDS is the most successful handheld of all time
>"hey the NDSL/3DS is out let's buy that"

if anything your post should apply to the Wii.

>>389751005
Bluray doesn't cost a bajillion (i.e. doesn't make the price of the average game goes over the normal market range) and doesn't has limited storage though.

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Why no Red Dead 2 switch version?

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Why are moder. western games over 100gbs anyway?

Game is going to flop. LA Noire is Rockstar's literal who. Swich is also for children which means parents aren't going to buy a game about the mean streets of 1920's LA for little Timmy.

>>389751128
The carts dont cost an obscene amount either, it's purely a way for lazy devs to gouge, besides why the fuck is the game suddenly over 32 gigs when it was only like 18 gigs on consoles and PC last i checked

>>389751256
then I guess No More Heroes is going to flop too

>>389751313
Because they don't offer specific sizes for every game size imaginable. If you can't fit on 8, your next option is 32.

Also, it isn't a way for "lazy devs" to price gouge, SD cartridges are fucking expensive.

>>389751349
Well, considering the first 2 did, that isn't necessarily a bad prediction.

>>389751216
what >>389751089 said, back in the day people have to work with extremely limited hardware so they were forced to constantly find ways to put games inside less than a few MBs of storage space, since TBs of harddisk are dirt cheap now nobody bother to do proper compression.

>>389751313
>it's purely a way for lazy devs to gouge

thanks for finally getting the point, obviously Nintendo can work with this problem since they are the one that make the standard in the first place, this doesn't mean other devs can do the same. Devs with shit/lazy compression ability will fail to put their content on a 32GB and there might be some other technology issues involved due to the Switch's unique architecture, causing the memory to further increase as a result.

>>389751089
Pretty much, it's fucking sickening how people defend it too

>rockstars first game on a switch isn't a gta game
just fucking port the 3d games over already

>>389751437
>if you cant fit on 8 your next option is 32
Well that's just completely asinine if true

60% more than nothing still nothing

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-03-10-why-nintendo-switch-games-are-ending-up-more-expensive

We knew this since March

>>389751349
LA Noire sold like shit and R* dissolved the studio involved and NMH, while universally praised, probably performed well enough to just break even.

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>>389751592
>GTA games other than Chink Town Wars on a Nintendo system

>>389749503
>We need The Elder Scrolls: Hyrule
Give TLoZ to a studio that hasn't made a decent RPG since Morrowind, on an engine that runs like shit on anything unless it's scaled down to look like ass? Great idea.

>>389750729
>Buy a 128 GB SD, no more problems
M-muh x+y dollars plus tip issues. This hobby is not for poorfags

>>389751708
>LA Noire sold like shit and R* dissolved the studio involved
LA Noire sold well. Internal conflict between Rockstar is what caused its dev studio to fall apart.

>>389751718
Chink Town Wars was good though

>>389751592
Bully was on Wii.

so your argument is bs already

>>389751808
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tdJLxSNk9ZAJ:www.playstationlifestyle.net/2011/08/09/l-a-noire-sells-four-million-units-truth-lie-or-doubt/&num=1&newwindow=1&hl=en&gl=hk&strip=1&vwsrc=0

I retract my previous post, but it seems the thing that hit it was that the budget that went into making it was so huge that they barely broken even as a result.

>>389751748
>hasn't made a decent RPG
Moot point considering Zelda isn't an RPG series.
>scaled down to look like ass
Let's not pretend there has been a Zelda game that looked graphically impressive.

>>389751659
It isn't true, your next option is 16, THEN 32. And if we're talking about a game as big as LA Noire + ALL the DLC, it ain't going to fit in 16 gigs.

>>389747998

I just find it funny that a remaster of a flop piece of shit is being hyped and shilled on here so much. At least the price is lower than what I paid for it orjginally. It had no business being over $30.

>>389751871
What i mean is that they should've chose a gta game for their first game to release on a switch and not la noire

>>389752104
So you want the GTA stories games on switch?

>>389751995
>Moot point considering Zelda isn't an RPG series.
So you give it to a studio that makes RPGs?.. Name any good puzzles in any Bethesda game in that past 10 years.
>Let's not pretend there has been a Zelda game that looked graphically impressive.
No, they don't. They do excel in fitting with the console's limitations though, the engine is built around supporting that console, or similar spec consoles and so is the game world. Skyrim on Switch looks infinitely worse than BotW.
Regardless, Nintendo has given the IP to whoever developed that Musou game, not a good game either but it has happened.

Who the fuck asked for an LA Noire port? Do people even buy it when it's $5 on Steam repeatedly?

>>389752104
Wouldn't you want a game that can be released simultaneously on all platforms to have a level playing field in term of sales? As a Switch sales drone's perspective I mean.

isn't this because rockstar are being jews and they want the consumer to pay the extra costs? ea is using the same cartdriges for nba and it still costs 60 burgers.

>>389751519
Suda was very happy with 1's sales. It was Grasshopper's biggest hit by far at the time.

>>389752265
I'm not the anon you replied to, just putting in my two cents.
But no, I wouldn't give it to a studio that usually makes RPGs, unless they were making an actual Zelda RPG.

>>389751313
>The carts dont cost an obscene amount either
They don't. They're just repurposed proprietary SDs, which even 32gig don't normally cost more than $5 to produce. The only ones price gouging in this situation are Nintendo themselves.

>>389748830
He was obviously not counting Nintendo collaborations.

>>389752403
Suda being happy with the sales could very well mean he was expecting the game to be a massive flop.
No one, George Lucas least of all, expected Star Wars to be a success.

>>389752297

Probably just trying to cash in on visual novel success as of late and get back some of the money they lost kn the game.

>>389751256
>noire
>1920s
No Anon

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>>389752572
>Shortly after No More Heroes's European release, PAL publisher Rising Star raved about its sales, with manager Martin Defries proclaiming, "We are weeping with delight. Especially as sales should improve further with the TV campaign moving up a gear from tonight. It is a verification of all the posturing and ambitious claims made these past months. I think a 'told you so' would be apt at some point. Thanks to Nintendo and the Wii console. Thanks to Mastertronic for their sales efforts and all our retail partners. Most of all thanks to Grasshopper for the greatest of products."

>>389748059
You can blame high street stores for the fact that they're not. They literally hold console manufacturers to ransom by telling them they'll boycott their products if they sell digital copies cheaper.

>Publisher ports years old game to nintendo console
>complains about small sales and never makes any further nintendo ports

This is just the current gen edition.

>>389752780
That still says nothing about Suda51's expectations.

>>389753095
Isn't the argument over whether it was a flop or not?

>>389751519
The NMH series is Grasshopper's best selling series ever, and performed best on Switch while the PS3 version sold so poorly Sony didn't get 2 and isn't getting TSA.

>>389753164
Do you actually think any Suda games are big budget?

>>389753164
And anon tried to prove the game nor being a flop by bringing up Suda's expectations for the sales.
The game wasn't a flop, it barely broke even.

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I suppose it's just because they were "remastering" the game for the PS4/XBone as well and decided to toss a mildly unique/cheap port of it to the Switch as well.

But goddamn what an awful choice for the first Rockstar Switch game. That table tennis game could have been a legit great choice with the joycons. Bully or a Manhunt HD collection even more so.

>>389753438
Do you have any proof to back that up?

>>389753504
GTA IV would have been a great choice if they were having trouble with GTAV, though V would have been the best choice

Name a single western triple ayyyy lmao game worth buying

>>389752572
Lucas took complete merchandising rights in favor of several million dollars back then. If that's not believing in your project, I don't know what is.

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I'd care if gaijin third parties actually made a name for themselves on handhelds or if all those games wouldnt come out on PC anyways.