8 Major Worries For The Nintendo Switch In 2018

The Switch is never going to be the go-to device for best-in-class visual fidelity, and that's fine. Nintendo never had any intention of getting involved with Sony and Microsoft's back and forth struggle to one-up the other, a smart decision that's so far paid off dividends by filling a gap in the market, just as the Wii did.

The trade-off of the Switch's hybridity means that you're getting triple-A grade gaming on the go (or on the bog), just without the cutting edge performance of the PS4 Pro or One X, but when less than a year in, third-party developers are declining to port their titles over to Ninty's device, well, alarm bells start ringing, a din we've not heard since the Wii U's slow sink into the dirt.

Capcom's Monster Hunter: World, far and away the biggest release of 2018 so far, won't be headed to Switch (at least not by Capcom's hand), with the studio's president having told Kotaku that doing so would be "difficult" as the Switch has "different functions from other stationary consoles." Uh-oh.

Given the astronomical success the Switch has had at retail, it's unlikely that it'll go the way of the Wii U, but it's cause for concern that third parties are already beginning to bail on the Switch. Nintendo needs to remain wary of this.