Darklor01
Might need to stop sniffing glue
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertc...g-to-the-nintendo-switch-either/#2a4cc5601536
I think honestly, there was little point in the author even writing this article IMO regarding Resident Evil. I think the issue will be which 3rd parties will support Switch and how they support it. I think the comment that the Switch is a unique piece of hardware is accurate, but I don't recall many saying that it is hard to develop for. I don't think it needs Resident Evil to survive, or Call of Duty, or any other mainstream titles of that like to survive. I think Nintendo will be just fine without the Third Party Support should games like Pokemon come out. Switch has third party support, we saw that during the presentation on a slide. This article makes it sound a bit like it doesn't.
Express Online spoke to RE7s producer Masachika Kawata, and while they seem to respect the Switch, that does not mean theyre porting to it.
I think it's a very unique piece of hardware," producer Masachika Kawata explained. "I'm looking forward to the possibilities of the system itself, but we have no plans at the moment regarding Resident Evil on Switch."
Resident Evil, though not a family-friendly series, is no stranger to Nintendo hardware, which may make this news a bit disheartening for fans and potential Switch buyers. The Wii had Resident Evil 4, RE: Umbrella Chronicles, RE: Darkside Chronicles and RE Zero while the Wii U had Resident Evil: Revelations. But some may recall that Capcom has been publicly critical of Nintendo's hardware in the past. A Resident Evil 5 producer once famously said that the Wii couldn't even run that game's title screen. And despite that comment being made almost eight years ago, things have not changed. Resident Evil 7 will be yet another major release that will not make its way to the Nintendo Switch.
In the case of Resident Evil, the issue almost certainly seems to be a lack of power, rather than a lack of will, as in RE7 probably just cannot run on a Switch effectively. Yes, theres always the argument that developers are waiting to see if the Switch is a huge hit and then theyll commit to system, but its likely more than that.
Perhaps theres little purpose in continuing to beat this point into the ground, but everyone has always hoped that whatever Nintendos next system would be, it would finally rebuild those bridges with third parties and develop a system capable of playing all these big games. But the more we learn about upcoming games and the Switch itself, the more it seems like Nintendo is now even losing what little third-party support it had left, with the Switchs line-up looking even more anemic than the Wii Us was early on. And going back to RE5, in this case Nintendo is still having the exact same issues with the exact same developers of the exact same series.
A system can rarely thrive on exclusives alone, and PS4 and Xbox would be dead if they tried as much. Only Nintendo seems to have the power to walk this tightrope and survive, but the Switch might be its toughest challenge to date in this regard.
I think honestly, there was little point in the author even writing this article IMO regarding Resident Evil. I think the issue will be which 3rd parties will support Switch and how they support it. I think the comment that the Switch is a unique piece of hardware is accurate, but I don't recall many saying that it is hard to develop for. I don't think it needs Resident Evil to survive, or Call of Duty, or any other mainstream titles of that like to survive. I think Nintendo will be just fine without the Third Party Support should games like Pokemon come out. Switch has third party support, we saw that during the presentation on a slide. This article makes it sound a bit like it doesn't.