To me the WiiU felt somewhat directionless and there were features that developers just didn't know what to do with, Nintendo probably didn't know what to do with them. However I think the Switch is brilliant, it's the right kind of gimmick for them, they can consolidate their entire game library that would normally be divided between their handheld and console divisions onto one machine. I suspect the Switch would also be cheaper and faster to developer for since it's not as beastly as a PS4 or Xone.

This consolidation makes sense for them and keeps them in both markets, plus it's a pain to buy two expensive systems (a handheld and a console) and the accompanying games (nintendo games remain full price for a long time). I think this just works out better for both Nintendo and their consumers.

Nintendo lacks all the major/most important 3rd parties games of the past 10 years.

PS5 will further the gap, as the games will be bigger and more complex than those of the PS4. They claimed it was easy to port majority of PS4 games to the switch.

Nothing happened in this regard, not much. Now some out there believe it will change ... in the long run. The ps5 titles will take too much extra time to port over ... nothing will change.

Nintendo sadly lost it's juice long Time ago and relies on it's handheld and the few iconic characters.

Switch is already too weak and won't be able to render future games of PS4 and ps5 ... Even a GT5 of PS3 would not run on it ..

Imagine Sony without any 3rf party support. They would probably survive for a few years, due their in-house output .. but not for long. See Microsoft .. zero 1st party, Terrible 3rd party as the PS4 keeps on selling the most titles.

Similar situation with Nintendo ... like Microsoft but with much better 1/2nd party support.

3rd party games support = success among casuals. Few already are pissed at Nintendo for the lackluster first half of 2018. . and all the ports/Indies.

It would bore me to death just to play Mario games.

Their strength right now of course is there first-party but that's because of lack of anything else that doesn't actually mean that somehow third-party games of do nothing for the company.

So I agree what this is my account is actually saying because the Gap with the fan base that enjoys those third-party games is going to continue to get wider and wider to the point where I'm not even sure if Microsoft leaves the industry if they will even be a void that goes towards Nintendo for all we know that void might actually go toward Sony.

You're talking about a fanbase of people that are already falling in love with Destiny the division Watch Dogs OverWatch in a whole bunch of new intellectual property so they're already loving the controller the powerful system and everything that comes with it so it's going to be very difficult to get that consumer to decide to buy another system that happens to have none of those games at all or only 1

So even if we look at something like Destiny for example let's say that appears on the next Nintendo system Nintendo actually would need to get the rest of the third-party to convince the consumer to not buy a PlayStation because it's not as if that person only played Destiny and never played Tekken or never played Call of Duty or never played Battlefield so at the end of the day the person that is the multi-platform gamer plays multiple games not only one , to convince them to invest in your platform you actually need to have everything that the previous platform actually had to really make a strong push for that market.

I mean let's put this into perspective that you could understand would you buy a PlayStation and never buy a Nintendo system just because Super Smash Brothers came to PlayStation but not Zelda or Mario or other big franchises?

I'm sorry buddy but you guys need to stop pretending that Skyrim coming to the Nintendo switch means that every major Elder Scrolls fan is never going to buy an Xbox or Playstation lol

It is an assumption that every major Elder Scrolls fan only likes Elder Scrolls and plays nothing else on the platforms they own...

I don't think you realize just how long gone that market actually is.

So I'm sure the switch is going to get tons of success from people who like Nintendo as a publisher but I would argue the more success they're gaining in this way the more they're actually alienating themselves from Gamers who like third-party games they're reinforcing the idea that Nintendo platforms are for only Nintendo gamers.

Good luck trying to get support for a system that has that type of install base that's kind of the reason why you're not even seeing big major third-party games support the platform. I mean you're basically proving that the vast majority of the install base is only buying it for Nintendo so I'm not sure how that's going to entice any third party to support a system that has Gamers that only want to buy one Publishers game

agreed

Well Nintendo has the handheld market to themselves, or they would if mobiles didn't provide such strong competition.

Yeah I’m not saying anytime soon. I’ve only had my switch for 6 months.