They're most likely waiting to see how it does before putting their resources into it.

If only there was some sort of show where they could announce new games.

"Why Aren’t Developers Making Games For The Nintendo Switch?"

because the competition will have systems out that are 4-6 times more powerful, and who is going to buy a 3rd party game on a significantly weaker system if they own a Switch/Scorpio, Switch/PS4 Pro or all three?

It's underpowered. It'll get games, just not major AAA third party titles.

Lack of power, cartridges, online service and its a portable first

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"Why Aren’t Developers Making Games For The Nintendo Switch?"

Maybe because they aren't interested in under-powered garbage.

Because if history repeats itself the percentage that buys a non Nintendo game are smal.

Because it is a Nintendo console and Nintendo users don't buy third party games.

Id rather they be picky instead of getting all those games Wii had. And there are develooers making games , it just came out. Long term I am not sure of they will have enough games or not but its too early to know

Because it's been time tested over the last 3 decades that the vast majority of Nintendo users have no interest in non-Nintendo titles. Why should developers waste time and money making games for that audience when it won't make a difference. Titles like CoD, Destiny, Battlefield, etc., will still make insane amounts of money with or without Nintendo versions.

Have the policies too loose, then you're going to end up with the Wii again - A whole crap load of shovelware.

Hmm i can think of 3 reasons off the top of my head...

1. Underpowered
2. Overpriced
3. 3Rd partys dont sell on nintendo

Cell shaded cartoon graphics worked with the wii, failed with the wiiu, and it will fail on the switch. Plus this isnt 2006... Sony is on top and by this fall will be less expensive... They also have the biggest catalog of games, and have AAA 3rd partys.

Wii sold shitloads, but third party games didnt sell well at all. Wii-U sold crap and third party games lilewise. I think third party developers thread carefully, if the console keeps selling well som developers will start treading the waters. Untill then there will be smaller games coming from third partys, those who dont involve any greater risk.

Cuz devs don't see it profitable yet.Give it a year and well get a good idea

Guys don't bother. .. Nintendo fanboys have an excuse for everything. Don't waste time trying to reason with them.

Dont know, makes really no sense. The System is constantly sold out and winning NPD left and right.

Maybe because they don't want to because its their choice to do so

Underpowered and crappy 3rd party support from Nintendo!

Because Switch owners are only interested in first party titles.

Who says they aren't?

about 3 months in....

Most devs are waiting to see if it has a future ahead of it.

Because it have the power of a smartphone ROFL! Ninty can go ask devs of mobile games to make some games for it, for example the studio that make Angry Birds hahahahahahahahaha hahahaha haha... ha... ha... ha.....

The article mentions online only game, Destiny 2. The Switch doesn't have voice chat and is still using friend codes. It's archaic, the Xbox 360 had better online than it.

Nintendo consoles are excellent for local co-op, I use mine for Friday night food and mario kart with friends. But what they're awful for is online play, and that's exactly what developers and publishers have been moving more and more to since the last generation.

They will.. I have no idea how many but there will be some gems on this system to say the least.. If it blows up the switch will the best exclusives as far as quality is concerned

Switch could be another Wii because of the so call is selling damn great, but lets say is another Wii in terms of sales, but the question is do you think this is good for the gaming industry as a whole ?, the answer is ABSOLUTELY NOT!, the Wii sales were great in its time but the only beneficiary was Nintendo only, but for third party developers or the customers it was a nightmare, take for example Tsunoko vs Capcom their sales of this game were pretty bad, also 90 % or more of the Wii games library were pure shovelware, so in the end we could have another Wii situation here with the Switch but I pretty doubt it, as you can see seeing articles like this so early is just the beginning of another Wii U pathetic situation, look all the fanatism go crazy for Mario Kart...again!, same exactly game of last years, look Capcom again had the guts to release a 6 year old game and claim is the best thing ever, 100 % sure that the people that have a Switch is getting very desperate for games right now.

Developers Are making games for Switch, and more leaks and announcements from developers have been talked about in the last 2-3 days alone.

E3 is on the way as well, and that is the time a lot of developers will announce their games.

This article is pointless until after E3.

its gonna be wii u all over agian lol its so very obvious only 3rd party its gonna get is indie game and bad ports and japan shovel ware lets be honest ppl buy this thing for nintendo games nothing else maters and nothing else is gonna sale on it sooner or later no 3rd good decent AAA 3rd party will seal this things fate just like wii u the switch is a ticking time bomb

I can't believe I'm about to defend Nintendo here, but, since Nintendo is actually doing E3 this year, how about we wait until *after* their conference before we start saying no games are coming out for the Switch?

I dont know , Alot of games are coming out ... alot of indies tho but there are some bigger companies . Street fighter from Capcom , Fifa from EA , Steep from Ubisoft , Dragon Quest X & XI from Square Enix and Some fun games from smaller companies , I guess you can call them indies like Payday 2 , LEGO world , Portal Knights , and Stardew Valley . But I buy it for my kids not me . I got my Xbox one and PS4 for that . Nintendo got some neat first parties games like Arms and Splatoon 2.. neat Mario game for the wife and its all kid theme games , I like that over my kid getting into my FPS games with Zombies and that .

Expensive to release carts... lots of risk if you release poor performer. Digital sales will be 3rd parties only path to high volume.

Swear I kept seeing spam-amounts of articles going "WOWEE LOOK AT ALL THE DEVS WHO PROMISE TO MAKE SWITCH GAMES LOL IT HAS SO MANY GAMES ITS DOING GREAT AND ITS SELLING LIKE HOT CAKES!"

Now we got articles/videos saying this?

Are you daft? It has a bunch of games coming to it. Close to 200 listed on Wikipedia. There is a lot of stuff being made for it.

Cause its another Nintendo gimmick that is slowly dying, like always theres early Nintendo fan hype out the gate and then it inevitably sinks into obscurity.

I have a switch and I can't keep up with all the games that already exist imo. I'm probably not as hardcore as most but Zelda, Mario Kart, and binding of Isaac is keeping me plenty busy for now. I realize that a lot of the games have already come out on other platforms but I never got to play em. I guess the switch isn't for everybody but for a busy person like me it's been a super convenient way to squeeze some game time in.

There is one reason and it is not the power as devs could always tone down graphics. The reason is the cartridge size is just too small to support AAA games. Modern games weigh 40~60 GB per game but cartridges hold a much smaller size making it immpossible to develop AAA games for it.

Best to wait before making comments like that, because it has been out for less than 6 months and E3 is not over.

But perhaps they have a lot of secrets waiting to be announced, or their silence is proof of a lack of content. Either way they will have to make a huge uphill case to convince me of buying one.

Trolls are out again, nothing good or constructive to say. The funny thing is with all this bollocks about bringing AAA games to switch, most of games u want to play are shit anyway. Get this I can guarantee MARIO ODDESSY will steel E3, and take the lime light of most so called top tier games. Get over it fanboys, oh and the other thing is your all moaning about switch when most of u own ps4 so what's your fucking problem. I own ps4, switch I can enjoy the best of both formats.

Word is that it's getting cod world war 2 though, announced at e3. My fingers are crossed because if it is I'm double dipping because if the portability alone.

Because switch is a shitty console, deal with it

I rather see the switch get its own exclusives games just like the 3ds did vs ports from consoles. Devs need to develop games strictly around the switches hardware. It never go's well trying to port console games over to handehlds.

I guess nintendo also needs to loosen up on their restrictions, they saw how badly the wii u failed so would they want to repeat the same mistake, especially when they'vr tried so hard to differentiate the switch from the wii u.

I also thik the switch hardware is enough to run any AAA exclusive on it, it may nit look ifentical but close is good enough. Capcom is even making resident evil 7 on the switch, they even went as far as to say that that the game is already running on thr switch. We have to remember people the switch can run unresl engine for ebich most consoles use so there go's youroroof right there.

a negative opinion piece flaring up on N4G.... big surprise xD

Because Nintendo has poor focus.

Because Nintendon't. Ohhhhhhhhhh buuuuurn!

Give it a year, if they kill the holidays and still have a slate of dope 1st party stuff coming then the smart AAA companies will adjust

Wii owners were notoriously frugal with their non-nintendo game purchases. Publishers were burned. They aren't going to just jump back in.

Because it's the Wii U all over again. Get ready for months without anything good to play and waiting for first party Nintendo games. So typical of Nintendo. I don't know why people expect anything different from Nintendo.

I have a sinking suspicion this is forced scarcity from Nintendo driving the 'craze' to get one. Nothing all that compelling software wise atm. Wait two or three years for the inevitable improved version, and all the software releases that will be available at that time (versus the wii U ports).

Nintendo doesn't have healthy third party support since the N64. It has been like that all these years. I don't know why some people find it hard to accept or even hope to be any different while Nintendo keep the same business practices.

Nintendo consoles are for Nintendo games. If you buy a Nintendo console hoping for third party support on it, you lied to yourself.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau