 Would you like to see Devil May Cry 5 on Nintendo Switch? I think I would like to see it. I've never actually played the Devil May Cry series, but you know what? If Devil May Cry 5 was on Switch, I might just pick it up. But if I want it to be on Switch, I have to buy Dragon's Dogma. Now I was planning to buy Dragon's Dogma, anyways. But the director of Devil May Cry 5 has essentially said, actually not essentially, literally stated that if you want Devil May Cry 5 on Switch, you need to buy Dragon's Dogma. Let's get into his exact quotes here as translated by Nintendo Life. So as you see here, Nintendo Life notes that Devil May Cry 5 director Hideki Itsuna and producer Matt Walker did tease how they would like to see Devil May Cry 5 on the Nintendo Switch about a month back, but that wasn't really confirmation it was coming. Another did an interview with German magazine M with the exclamation point. Itsuna said the latest game in Devil May Cry series would be considered for the Switch if Capcom's April release, Dragon's Dogma Dark Oryzen sells well on the platform. Here's the translation. If Dragon's Dogma Dark Oryzen sells well on Switch, then we might, not even for sure, consider reporting Devil May Cry 5 and then why Devil May Cry 5 wasn't coming to the system in the first place, it's because they started development with Devil May Cry 5 while they did not have dev kits for the Switch. Because of that, we concentrated on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Now look, that second statement makes a lot of sense. That's why a lot of third party games might not be on Switch at this point because they were developing it before Switch was even a thing they could develop for. But setting that aside, really? Are you serious, Capcom? Are you serious, Hideki Itsuna? Are you serious? How many times is Capcom, someone from Capcom, going to tell us, if you want this game on Switch, go buy the other one. And it's not even a, oh, if you buy it, we will do this. It's no, we might do this. What's the might? Well, Dragon's Dogma's probably going to have to sell a million, two million, three million copies. Then they would consider Dragon a Devil May Cry. Then they would consider Devil May Cry 5 for the Switch. I am kind of sick of this. It's one thing for companies to basically ask fans to port bag, okay, if enough people chime up if they want this thing, maybe we'll do it. I don't like that attitude either, but at least that is just related to that game. And you're telling people that hey look, if you want this game, you have to go buy a completely different game in a completely different genre that has nothing to do with Devil May Cry. That's ridiculous to me. Absolutely ridiculous. That's even a thought process that crosses people's minds. But we've heard this over and over and over again with some third party companies, Capcom especially, when it comes to Switch, of we will give you the games you want if you buy the games you might not want. It doesn't make sense to me. I could understand, at least on a surface level, if they're like hey look, we won't bring Resident Evil 7 to Switch unless this RE4 thing and the Resident Evil Zero and Resident Evil Revelations, those games need to sell well and then we'll bring over the more recent Resident Evil games like the Resident Evil 2 remake or Resident Evil 7. I could at least understand some sort of messed up logic in there where at least they're talking about games within the same series so obviously they want to see that people are interested in that series to bring over the newer games. I could understand that to a point but to tell people that if you buy Dragon's Dogma we might bring Devil May Cry 5 over is complete and utter bullshit and that probably just got this video demonetized and I don't even care. That's how frustrated I am at a remark like this and this is about a game series that I've never really participated in. I've never really played Devil May Cry 5 and I still think this is absolutely ridiculous that a developer, that a director, that a company like Capcom would even promote the idea that to bring a game to a platform you need to buy a completely different game. And I think at like a sub level we sort of knew this like underneath it all it would kind of went unsaid and unwritten with games like from EA where FIFA, if FIFA did well, if Faye did well, maybe we could get more games from EA in the future. I think that was a thought process many of us had. I know I had that thought process but at least EA never publicly came out and stated hey if FIFA sells well we'll give you a madden. Like they never publicly said that. That's just been a natural assumption by consumers. It's almost better to let that assumption exist rather than be like oh hey by the way like you want this on Switch well here you go oh and the reason it's not on Switch is because hey we didn't have dev kits at the time. Well you have dev kits now don't you? You could just be like some other third parties and just give us the game later. But no, I even hate them bringing up the dev kit excuse because if it was just a dev kit reason we would be getting double my cry 5 on Switch. If the only reason that it's not on Switch is because they didn't have dev kits when they started development they have the kits now and they can give us a late release. Bottom line is they just don't want to bring it to Switch. They only will bring it to Switch if they know it's going to sell a million copies right. They want to know it's going to be a big seller and they can't know that without the game being there. So they're going to say hey look if you buy this other hardcore game an older game by the way you know we're talking about an older game being ported to Switch that that's going to be the barometer a game of a completely different genre that that's going to be the barometer for a Devil May Cry 5 game for a Devil May Cry game period even the older games like fine bring us an older Devil May Cry game if you want to use that as a barometer don't like talk about Dragon's Dogma what's Dragon's Dogma dark horizon have to do with Devil May Cry 5 besides it comes from the same company you might as well sell hey let's wait for Monster Hunter to come on on the platform and see if that sells oh you're not going to say that because you know Monster Hunter is going to sell the reality is you're going to you're just giving an excuse for Devil May Cry 5 to not be on Switch all you had to say was that hey we never really built this for Switch and we have no plans to bring it to Switch and you could have left it at that no no no you had to mention the impossibility of an old school port of an overlooked RPG selling well on Switch to get Devil May Cry 5 and you know what happens even if it sold well I guarantee we still wouldn't get Devil May Cry 5 because we're not going to know what selling well means to Capcom so and the thing is Dragon's Dogma is probably not going to be a big seller anyways it was never a big seller and it's definitely not going to suddenly become a big seller just because it's on Switch it'll do well maybe it'll sell a couple hundred thousand copies I don't know I know I'm going to pick it up I've heard that it's actually a really good game that just went overlooked but I it's it's mind-blowing to me that this is the reality that we live in and especially on a platform I mean we're not talking about like you know this is the launch year of the Switch and no one knows what's going to happen we have seen success story after success story after success story we have seen Square Enix like across the street from Capcom have success on Switch with games we have seen we've seen obviously Nintendo then you set them aside but we've seen other companies you've seen Bethesda have success like Capcom has had success the Mega Man games have been selling like I I don't understand this mentality it's fine to me if they don't want to bring Devil May Cry 5 to Switch it's okay I think at this point the Switch owners we understand we're just not going to get everything even if we want it but to use that as an excuse to be like look we didn't have the dev kits we have them now don't address that point but we didn't have the dev kits and then on top of that oh we might do it if you go buy this completely separate game I I'm sorry I'm just really upset about this but as always that's my opinion on this topic I obviously want to hear what you guys have to say maybe you're not as upset as me maybe you think that hey look at least there's a chance the game could come over I I don't think this is actually a chance I think this is just a veiled marketing attempt for Dragon's Dogma and there's no intent or purpose or reason that they're going to bring Devil May Cry 5 to Switch I don't think that's a chance in hell of it happening but uh you know what these are the words of the developers so who am I to question them I guess besides the fact that Capcom's already said this about other games and then some of those games did set well and then we still didn't get the games so please I'm just putting the plead out there to game directors developers PR companies rolled over at these third party companies stop trying to promote your other games on switch as a reason to potentially get a completely separate game that has nothing to do with the game you're talking about it is a poor marketing strategy and it shows a lack of faith both in the consumer base on the platform you're on and a lack of faith in the game you are putting out on its own what you are telling me what what I am getting out of this whole thing is one Dragon's Dogma is not good enough to sell well on its own without the incentive of Devil May Cry 5 and what you're also telling me is that Devil May Cry 5 on its own isn't good enough to sell on switch why because you need to see that there's interest first by talking about a completely different game that has nothing to do with Devil May Cry you want to know if there's interest you could just do the bare minimum and say hey look like you know fans outcry here's a here's a feedback website let's see how many um intend to purchase you know commitments we can get or something or a Kickstarter or something where people can literally pre-buy the game and if they get to a certain amount of sales then we will release it on switch if we don't hit those sales we'll just refund everyone's money right like that to me seems like a go-to thing right like to me that's a that's a solid plan now you're like I actually want companies to do this if you want to know if the game will sell well on the switch you know what how about you put up a Kickstarter and you say or whatever you don't have to use Kickstarter and use some other website but you put up a crowdfunding page and you note in there you are not crowdfunding the game you are using this as a pre-purchase platform and I think Kickstarter actually frowns upon that but there are other platforms that'll let you as a pre-purchase platform and then if we hit a certain threshold we will release the game if we don't then we don't at least then at least then as fans can know okay how much does it need to sell to realistically come out on switch then there's a bar set instead you're telling people no the bar is a completely different game that's not going to sell as well because it's not as as well known of a franchise as don't make cry and that don't make cry five don't want to have an audience on switch that's all you're saying you're literally saying we're not 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