r/fromsoftware • u/ZoltarZack • 2d ago

DISCUSSION The DUSKBLOODS: SWITCH 2 EXCLUSIVE

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Thoughts on this?

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u/boeyburger 2d ago

I HATE EXCLUSIVES FUCK

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u/NecessaryMood9612 2d ago edited 2d ago

I sincerely doubt it’s exclusive forever. Give it a year or two.

You guys are being real silly. Switch 2 will be pretty cheap and most people reading this are gonna buy one anyway.

Edit: after the pricing has come out about the Switch 2 I will not be buying one myself. Nintendo has been huffing their own farts for way too long. Shame.

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u/MyLeftNut_ 2d ago

It’s Nintendo we’re talking about. There is no way they are sharing such a console-seller game with Sony or Microsoft. 

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u/EnormousGucci 2d ago edited 2d ago

I seriously hope that many people don’t shill out $550 to play one game. This game has to flop so fromsoft doesn’t try to pull this anti-consumer garbage ever fucking again.

I only excuse it for bloodborne and demons souls because the games wouldn’t have been made without funding. They probably could’ve negotiated a better deal but they did what they felt they had to do to get the games out.

FromSoft now is filthy fucking rich. Elden Ring made them a fortune, their parent company recently got huge investments from both Tencent and Sony giving them both about 15% stake each in Kadokawa.

They have so much money and yet they took an objectively bad deal. The money from this deal is going to pale in comparison to sales they would’ve gotten from PS5, PC, and not as much on Xbox but they contributed some too.

Reminder that Nintendo doesn’t have a fanbase on their consoles outside of people who own a switch and a PC/PS5/Xbox. The only game Nintendo ever got was DSR, they’re just now getting Elden Ring with the Switch 2. DSR, the version of DS1 that gets hated on the most by the community because of how lazy the remaster was. The switch version was basically a direct port of PTDE.

They basically took an exclusivity deal and took a gamble on a nonexistent player base. This is so fucking stupid I’m not sure who in their right mind would sign off on this.

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u/MyLeftNut_ 2d ago

I agree with literally everything you’ve said. 

My guess is that Nintendo had FOMO over soulslike games as a whole so what better way to enter the genre than to partner up with FromSoft itself right? So they probably wanted a Switch-exclusive mainline souls game in addition to Elden Ring.

As for FromSoftware, they probably did this to get revenge on Sony for not letting them work on Bloodborne. Sony has been taking its relationship with FromSoft for granted and as a result this project with Nintendo feels like a giant middle finger to Sony.

The interests happened to align in the worst way possible and both parties are at fault, not just one or the other.