They could've easily had such games of the following on Switch as well:
- Dragon's Crown Pro
- Muramasa Rebirth
- Persona 5: The Royal
- Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir
But they've always been so biased against Nintendo on a certain amount of games while always playing favorites with everyone else, especially Sony.
The Vanillaware stuff is explainable as the team is small, refuses to outsource for proprietary tech reasons and are now moving to Switch support anyway with 13 Sentinels. PC gamers are the ones who should be complaining about them now. Also Atlus has nothing to do with Muramasa, Marvelous owns that.
P5/R is likely an exclusivity deal. Like SMTV.
"Biased against Nintendo"
"Favorites with everyone else"
Huh?? Are we forgetting SMTV (exclusive to Switch), Nocturne HD hitting Switch, all the games on 3DS, DS, etc. 13 Sentinels also just recently hit the Switch as far as Vanillaware stuff.
I don't know who "everyone else" is you're referring to besides Sony, and even then Sony platforms in recent years haven't received a lot of Atlus/Megaten games outside Persona and Catherine, Vanillaware games, and only just now Soul Hackers 2.
And about SH2, sucks it's not on Switch, but I'm also glad they are making a NEW game intended for hardware above those specs for once. PlayStation might have gotten P5 Royal and Catherine Full Body, but those are still updates of games that also launched on the PS3.
Actually Catherine FB and P5 Strikers also came to Switch too. Plus there's TMS, even if it's co-owned by Nintendo, it's real tough to argue Atlus of all publishers is biased against Nintendo or even favors PlayStation.
These switch complaints are getting so Ridiculous. The switch simply can't run this game, have you seen how terribly SMTV was performing? & then you people demand persona 5 to be ok it too?? Man I love my switch but you gotta face reality.
Honestly, this game looks like even PS3 could probably run it. It's not on Switch and that's fine but it's definitely not something that looks beyond Switch spec so far. I wouldn't be surprised if it got a Switch downport later on either a la Cathrine FB or 13 Sentinels.
SMTV had uneven performance on Switch but it's environmental scope was also well beyond what we've seen of SH2 really. This game is more segmented and insular it seems, closer to P5 or TMS.
I'll be frankly, Japan doesn't matter in terms of console games sales unless you're a Nintendo first party game. Having a game on Switch doesn't mean it will boom in Japan as we've previously seen and most developers/publishers realized that they need to expand outside the country if they actually want their games to sell which is why you see more PC release as well. They're not gonna port games on the Switch if they don't see it's worth it and/or compromises the design of the game due to hardware limitations.
Japan's not even really the strongest argument for Switch support generally. Despite Sony's very recent transitional collapse there, Japan was the region where PS4 actually held out best versus Switch for JRPGs and often still led in multiplatform sales. It's really the west where you make the commercial rationale that JRPGs should look to include Switch as that where multiplats like Tales, SaGa, Ys or Atelier lead in sales on the platform or exclusives like Xenoblade, Fire Emblem or Octopath really blew up. Anyone framing this on Japan sort of has it backwards when it comes to Switch, it's real strength for 3rd parties is also overseas. I mean look at SMTV's record breaking sales, that's not because of Japan.
