Mange anser indie-spillenes indtog som én af de primære grunde til at Nintendo Switch er blevet en stor succes, fordi de kan skabe omtale og engagement imellem Nintendos egne store førstepartsudgivelser. Selvom mange indie-studier har rost Nintendo for deres støtte, så lader det ikke til at være alle de er lige tilfredse.
Robert Boyd, der er medejer af Zeboyd Games, der for nylig udgav Cosmic Star Heroine på Switch, fortæller via ResetEra, at det mildest talt har været frustrerende at arbejde med Nintendo.
"We got an okay number of reviews, but yeah, we couldn't get Nintendo to mention the game anywhere. Real shame since even a retweet from Nintendo probably would have given us a big boost in visibility. I get that it was just a port, but after spending months getting stonewalled by Nintendo when we were trying to get permission to release on Switch, going "fine, we'll play by your rules" and getting a publisher so we could get approved, and still getting ignored by Nintendo when the game was done and set to release is highly frustrating."
Boyd fortæller at han mener at spillet led under denne manglende støtte.