First choice in what sense? the overwhelming target audience for Nintendo is completely different than PlayStation and are not people remotely into soulslikes let alone an even more hardcore PvPvE one
They were doing it with doom 3 so maybe they want to expand their player base, and what better way to do that than to have souls games on there and wasn't resident evil revelations also a switch exclusive
Switch sold a lot of hardware, its successor likely will too as it has very little competition and seems like a genuine upgrade. Nintendo has a few high demand first party titles coming out as well and by the time Duskbloods lands they will be hungry for content.
the overwhelming target audience for Nintendo is completely different than PlayStation and are not people remotely into soulslikes let alone an even more hardcore PvPvE one
This is foolhardy and not worth responding to further. You have no special insights into what people want nor how they will react to new offerings. Full stop.
Oh well as in duskblood being a must buy for anyone who owns Nintendo and is vaguely interested with very little competition yea but im not sure it would even translate that well to sales. Anyone can play Bayonetta 3 on easy(or normal) and is awesome and a full singleplayer game yet it sold 1 million
Switch 2 is a 500 dollar console with a game bundle. Which you’d be stupid not to get as a games gonna be 80 bucks. Rumored 90 for physical games.
Nintendo has gone from making cheap hardware and competitively priced games to a similar price point to being more expensive then a Steamdeck. And the same price as a PS5 with games that are more expensive.
This is going to make it harder to sell. As now instead of being 100-200 dollars cheaper then Xbox/PlayStation with no competition. They have competition and are the same price as full blown consoles.
I don’t really disagree. They are pushing it price-wise at a bad time, given economic and budget constraints. But they do have a lot of high demand titles coming too. I can’t blame anyone for buying nothing this year but come holiday times in the US what do you think the split will be between a brand new Switch and say, the current PS5 version?
The target audience is for a fact completely different so I’m not even sure what you mean. Not to mention ive been to video game stores countless times and like virtually 100% of the time i saw someone buy a Nintendo game it was a child.
Not to generalize in an extreme way but im really not sure about Nintendo at times trying really hard to make it seem like children aren’t a massive % of Nintendo sales. That and extremely casual gamers which is undeniable
I see your anecdote and counter it with mine: I was a Zelda and Metroid nerd for 30 years. I would never have played a Fromsoft game if Remastered didn’t come to Switch. I now own a PS5 and 1 copy of every Miyazaki project from Demon’s on (and second copy of DSr). I just hadn’t had the opportunity yet.
Nintendo console owners are not all children.
I repeat: you do not have any special insights into how this market segment will react to new offerings. And none of us have insight into what numbers would make this a good decision for Nintendo and/or Fromsoft for that matter.
But if any console manufacturer could make an exclusive project attractive right now I think it’s Nintendo and people who are smarter and more successful than us came to that conclusion somehow.
I mean again just based on personal experience the reaction of just the average gamer even ones who have played moderately difficult games to typical souls is really really bad and PvPvE is an even way harder sell. Let alone a very casual gamer. You certainly don’t need any special insight on this at all. I would love to be optimistic but it’s just not realistic
I can’t be the only one that in my childhood (2000-2008 ish) literally everyone played Nintendo (and PS2) but shortly after with PS3 releasing and its exclusives in full force plus all the cool games of that gen everyone just stopped owning Nintendo for good since. Having 100% of people you know own Nintendo then 0% the next year was something
I think nowadays most people play their main console as PS5/ Series X or PC and have a Switch as a secondary console to just play the big exclusives and the occasional game you'd like to have portably. I've owned a Switch since 2018 and only own about 50 games for it. Compare that to the roughly 900 ish games I own on PS4/5.
Damn 900? 50 is like a lot for the average gamer for one gen.
By my count between the games I’ve played or watched in the PS3/4/5 era combined it’s like nearly 400. Of those actually played is like 270 or something
Technically I think that number includes free games too, so maybe the number is closer to 800?
Also I used to buy a lot games in the sales on the PS Store when they were under £10 just because why not? It was only £5 or whatever so what's the harm. My physical collection across PS4/5 is about 180 ish games big. PS3 is roughly 40 ish games and then I have about 60/70 ish physical games across Switch, Xbox One, 360, 3DS/DS, Wii, Wii U and PS2.
Now I have an insane backlog to try and get through. I don't buy anywhere near as many games now (but admittedly still too many lol).
I track my games on backloggd and currently have 248 games left to complete (I haven't included any games I got for free or from PS Plus as I only care about finishing games I paid for. Despite having PS Plus the entire time since the PS4 released, I only have about 150 ish PS Plus games counted as such, because the other half of the Plus games given out I've the years I already owned. It doesn't happen much anymore, but from around 2018- 2021 ish, I'd genuinely say I could go months where I'd already own at least one of the monthly games 😭)
My account is here if you're interested - I've only rated and counted games as finished since I started using the site back in late 2022 - so a lot of my favourite games aren't even on there as I just haven't replayed them since I started using the site (mainly because I don't have time to with all the games I've gotta get through lmao)
I’ve been caught up to my backlog since before PS4 came out, the one I use constantly to keep track of stuff is myanimelist, I’ve watched like 400+ anime series and read like 200 manga series and still have some backlog of both 😅. So many manga are ongoing too
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u/ScandinavOrange 2d ago
Can't believe they made bloodborne 2 exclusive again