>>46966017Anon, Game Freak wanted their game on sale. They couldn't do anything about only havng a handheld to work with, because the puublisher was HAPPY to have a killer app for their handhelds. It's the sole reason the Vita got humiliated, because nomies wanted pogymans. But if Nintendo had forced them to WiiU, there would have been WiiU sales, just as they had fuckloads of Lite and base Switch sales when they went and sold 20.3m of Gen VIII.
I'm sorry you ignore how the industry works, but second party studios sign contracts to provide games their publisher desires and for the systems they wish to release for. that means if they're not being contracted to make a game for A system, they aren't going to spend money developing for it, until they get a devit and an order for a game for that system (like in 2015, when Nintendo told them to ready up on the Switch for 2018).
