gamingeek said:

Fixed now.

They added "Sorry".

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Nintendo Switch 2's huge third-party support is something "we haven't seen" from Nintendo "maybe ever, but at least for a long time, maybe even since the GameCube," analyst says

The old adage is that people buy Nintendo consoles to play Nintendo games. But the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct made a huge statement about third-party titles right out the gate, announcing the likes of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Cyberpunk 2077, and Elden Ring, as well as a brand new exclusive from FromSoftware, The Duskbloods. So GamesRadar+ asked industry analyst Mat Piscatella about how supporting third parties could affect Nintendo Switch 2.

"Historically, Nintendo products get purchased to play Nintendo games, and Nintendo platforms aren't the first place people look to play third-party content if they have other ways of accessing that content," Piscatella tells us, adding, "Perhaps that changes here because of that support and because of the hybrid nature of the device.

"Maybe we see that start to change this time."

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Regardless of how things go, he thinks "it's gonna be super interesting to watch, because we haven't seen this level of support, maybe ever, but at least for a long time – maybe even since the GameCube."

Piscatella continues to say that, "in terms of that third-party partnership approach… that's not something that Nintendo had really pushed so much with prior launches."

He guesses that mouse support opens up other types of games to be supported on Nintendo consoles, and that Nintendo might be "trying to kind of lean over between what a Steam Deck or a PC platform could do, and what a console platform could do."

Considering the original Nintendo Switch launch lineup didn't even include the known console-launch standby Ubisoft (outside of Just Dance 2017), which even heavily supported the Wii-U at launch, it's impressive that the Switch 2 is getting genuine third-party blockbusters.

There.

We've seen this talk about an incoming deluge of 3rd party support for Nintendo platforms every single generation.  If Nintendo can sell these by the bucketloads, the games will come.  If not that well will dry up.

I feel that we also need to make a distinction between the indy/AA part of the industry and the big AAA publishers.  For the first I feel that Switch2 will be a pretty safe bet.  For the big budget productions it'll also be a case of 'can it run on Switch2'?  It won't be problematic for last gen ports and possibly cross gen games, but once we see current gen only, or even cross gen with PS6 appear we'll be back in the realm of 'impossible ports'.