This isn’t off my initial assertion in the slightest. And the actual truth of the matter is the numbers actually show they are buying games. Your problem is not actually looking at the data with any sort of common sense. The Switch is rapidly adding new titles to the library, anything from 15 to 30 titles a week…

Any time you have to make an argument with “most” and “many” people, you’re making an opinionated statement you can’t possibly back up with any form of evidence. Think about this a moment. What proof do you have about your assumption that expands beyond your personal opinion or not having friends that play them?

A lot of this is pure assumption. I hardly believe EOX would be selling off the shelves in Japan if no one was playing other games on the 3DS.

People were still churning out PS2 games for a decade after the system had been moved on from. Believe it or not, there is a market for older systems, it actually gets better over time because the first parties who make them stop looking for a huge cut for those games too. Which is why Atlus is also still making games…

Ehhh, let’s not forget we’re talking about Nintendo systems. I still have Fat Gameboys that work perfectly fine after decades of use. The fail rate on the system is nowhere near enough to try and claim 70% of the units in the wild have broken down or become disused.

I don’t disagree, but when there are easily 3 times the units in the wild as the next choice in system, that means the numbers are still probably in your favor.

I kinda had to look back a moment realizing a very big fault in your logic. It’s a lot easier to outsell the 3DS on the Switch in total numbers when you stop and consider that the Switch has had around 15-30 games hit the e-Shop every week in the last month while the 3DS has had like.... 3 games. In a month. The fact…

Another good reason, though not one that Persona probably needed to be considered for, I reckon.

Yeah, a lot of people don’t really consider what a platform pivot can be like. And pivoting a game meant to be played on two screens to a single screen platform? That was one of my major points. :/

Let me rebuttal: We already know more copies of that have sold, don’t use absurd arguments... especially when I’m literally explaining someone else’s sentiment in the notion. You’re not really arguing with me. :/

That is a much better argument than some I’ve seen. However I’m talking the logic of the developers rather than solid numbers. There’s a reason I’m pushing a game to the Switch myself. But some developers are stuck on the install base concept. I’m not arguing whether or not it’s a good philosophy, just where Atlus has…

I personally think it’s a bit of a leap to assume that 60 million 3DSs are sitting in closets when less than a third of that number would be accounted for due to owning a switch. :/

Yeah, actually am. Atlus publishes to the Vita still because it has a established fan base there that they know will guarantee sales. Same principal, different reasons.

Not entirely sure you understood what I said, or where you get your numbers from.

As a developer... the concern is install base. You can only sell as many copies of a game as there are people to sell it to. While the Switch is exploding in popularity, it in no way, shape or form has the same install base yet as the 3DS. So smaller publishers have to consider that when they’re putting out new games.…

A lot of Indies, but also a lot of major releases.

I recently tallied my Switch Library at 75 games. I’ve added two more since then. Send help. And a new memory card.

“Slaughtering of more alliance”, ROFL.

So she didn’t blight Gilneas and cause tons of civilian deaths against the orders of Garrosh, a man who would later become a raid boss? Wrathgate never happened now? She didn’t attempt to take the lantern of the Valkyr now?

Because then you’re just putting masking tape over a deeper problem.