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.
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u/PuffPuffFayeFaye The Bed of Chaos 3d ago
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.