Why are third party games selling well on Switch?

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Mnementh said:

RolStoppable said:

I'd like to see a list of those Activision and EA games for Wii U and Vita, plus a split into year 1 and 2.

Hmm, this seems like a challenge for me, especially since this site has a GameDB.

So, Activision put out apparently 20 WiiU-games (I ignore the two, that have no Boxart and no sales associated). Five in 2012 (007 Legends, Call of Duty Black Ops, Skylanders Giants, Transformers: Prime and WipeOut 3). Six in 2013 (Spiderman, Walking Dead, SpongeBox, Skylanders Swap Force, Angry Birds Star Wars, Call of Duty Ghosts). Five in 2014 (Big game Hunter, Spiderman, Transformer: Dark Spark, Skylanders Trap Team, The Voice). Three in 2015 (Skylanders: SuperChargers, Guitar Hero, Peanuts Movie). And finally one in 2016 (Skylanders: Imaginators). Overall very Skylanderish.

I find four EA-games for WiiU, searching for Electronic Arts and EA Sports separately with different results. Three in 2012 (FIFA, Madden, Mass Effect) and one in 2013 (Need for Speed).

For Vita I find four Activision games. Call of Duty in 2012, Angry Birds and Spiderman in 2013 and SpongeBox in 2015.

EA had for Vita six games that I find. Need for Speed, Madden and two (???) FIFAs in 2012, and then a FIFA in 2013 and 2014.

 

So in conclusion: Vita had basically every year FIFA, something which also happens for Switch it seems. Activision did actually support the WiiU quite well. So far Switch doesn't seem up to par, but Skylanders seem no longer be a yearly IP, which made a lot of the WiiU support.

Activision output in general has dropped significantly in the last couple years.

2017

Crash N. Sane Trilogy

Destiny 2

Call of Duty: WWII

 

2018

Spyro Reignited Trilogy

Destiny 2: The Forsaken

Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII