Liam Robertson once said here in Famiboards that it was the main reason
And this was from a thread from a year ago. If they believed this in 2022, I don't think anything happened since then to change their mind.
Incidentally,
@LiamRobertson, if I fucked up and that wasn't fact but personal opinion or something to that effect, please tell me and I'll edit this out.
I do trust Liam, he knows his stuff, but I can’t imagine that’s the ONLY reason, you know? Like I’m sure it’s A factor, but THE factor?
You guys are falling in the same trap Square Enix fell with the Kingdom Hearts series;
"Oh, we can't get KHIII to run on Switch on a budget", then proceeds to dump every other game as cloud versions, even though those could work natively no problem;
Honestly, I believe they could even get KHIII scaled down if they truly tried; but that's definitely wasn't within their budget or deadline with Sora coming to Smash;
I'm sure people would be perfectly satisfied with just the titles that are reasonably feasible on the Switch; say.. like Capcom with the Devil May Cry series (though, DMC4 and DmC have yet to appear..); no one is asking for DMCV, I don't think?
SEGA is just a very confusing company;
I get what you’re saying but again, there’s a strong narrative through-line from Yakuza 0-6. Missing 2 would be a
huge narrative omission, and 6 is literally the end of Kiryu’s saga. It’s not like DMC where you get 1-3 but not 4 or 5, it’s like if you got DMC 1, 3 and 4 but not 2 or 5.
(I’ve never played DMC, I have no idea if there’s a continuing story between games, but I assume there is. I’m also pretending 5 is the definitive end to Dante’s story to make this comparison work.)
If omitting games was an option, I could see them only doing 0 and Kiwami. But those games are regularly like $5 on other platforms, so would people buy them on Switch at a price that would make that port work make financial sense, when they could get ‘em on Steam or PS or Xbox for like $10 tops? I mean, I certainly would, but I can’t imagine there are many like me.
And with the games being action games with tight timing windows, cloud versions wouldn’t be the best experience. I did play 0 through Xbox Cloud and it wasn’t bad but I definitely didn’t enjoy it as much as I do playing it on a local machine, especially the karaoke mini game.
I could see them putting the turn-based 7/LaD on Switch via Cloud, tbh. Maybe that’ll show up at some point and I’ll finally buy a cloud-based Switch game.