Shitty title aside on a first impression, I really like it! Then I think of the business side and I can’t help but think that it’s not going to work.
Media and news will never show you that but it’s easy to understand why third-party developers don’t do much on Nintendo’s consoles. The best-selling games on those machines are Nintendo’s. Overwhelmingly. Don’t believe me? Let’s take a look at games that sold at least 1M units, Nintendo has:
SNES: top 3
N64: top 13
NDS: top 14
Wii: top 17
3DS: top 10
Wii U: top 14
Those tops represent hundreds of millions of games (Wii Sports, 80M. 80M units). ALL NINTENDO.
So good luck for anyone else to invest millions of dollars in a system where you are pretty much guaranteed to not sell enough to break even. Considering the past ten Nintendo years, very tough sale.
Good luck going back to retail with game cards, delays and what about DLC so pervasive now? They’d better not region-lock nothing because hello 2TB microSD card game cards.
The concept and the hardware are cool, way more attractive that this WiiU thing they did in the past. The same challenges remain though.