Switch overtakes total PS4 sales in Japan, in less than half the time

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0D0 said:

curl-6 said:

The Switch isn't selling due to old Wii U ports though. Most of its big games are exclusives.

BOTW can be ruled out too as that's not an old port but a simultaneous cross-gen release, and of course it's going to be more of a system seller as a launch title than coming out on a dead system the day it's replaced, that's just common sense.

So the notion that "Switch's library isn't what's selling it cos those games failed to sell the Wii U" is completely fallacious.

The Switch already has a superior library in two years than the Wii U managed in four.

I may agree or disagree with that notion but in my case I just agreed that Wii U games did wonders to Switch regardless. One of the reasons that Switch got a superior library in two years was because Wii U games were on this library. To make MK available for the Switch audience Nintendo had just to port a title. MK alone is huge.

Another factor is that many skipped Wii U. So when all those Wii U games came out for Switch in a short span of time while those buyers haven't bought hardware from Nintendo since Wii, those many were even more willing to pick up a Switch. The failure of Wii U sort of helped Switch. Many were hungry for a new Nintendo device since Wii.

Most players did indeed skip the Wii U, clearly, but quickrick was exaggerating the role of old Wii U ports in the Switch's success in order to downplay the system's library. The majority of the Switch's big games are new.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 07 June 2019