Megalith
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Oddworld creator Lorne Lanning and his team, Oddworld Inhabitants, is no fan of Nintendo’s latest console: he has "no faith," in the Switch, due to "experience," and having seen how the Wii and Wii U played out. He claims that both consoles weren't successful for third parties, and Nintendo ended up making all the money at the end of their runs.
...he doesn't think people are going to go through the effort to work on an "under-powered console" (a sentiment THQ Nordic shares), and that in conjunction with their alleged efforts to ignore third parties to better themselves, it'll end up hurting studios. It's something a lot of developers are struggling with right now - whether or not to call out Nintendo after the Wii U situation. The Switch is doing great so you don't want to burn that bridge, but some studios have claimed that even after they've tried to make games for it, Nintendo hasn't reciprocated.
...he doesn't think people are going to go through the effort to work on an "under-powered console" (a sentiment THQ Nordic shares), and that in conjunction with their alleged efforts to ignore third parties to better themselves, it'll end up hurting studios. It's something a lot of developers are struggling with right now - whether or not to call out Nintendo after the Wii U situation. The Switch is doing great so you don't want to burn that bridge, but some studios have claimed that even after they've tried to make games for it, Nintendo hasn't reciprocated.