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SpokenTruth said:

Check out the difference between 1st and 3rd party sales between Wii U and Switch.

http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/47/wii-u/
http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/83/nintendo-switch/

3rd parties held 6 spots in the top 30 on Wii U.
1st party holds just 7 spots in the top 30 on Switch.

Almost completely opposite. 

Fun fact: The best selling 3d party title on Wii U was a Microsoft game.

Let's see this develop after we get a few more first party games, no?



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KrspaceT said:
SpokenTruth said:

Check out the difference between 1st and 3rd party sales between Wii U and Switch.

http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/47/wii-u/
http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/83/nintendo-switch/

3rd parties held 6 spots in the top 30 on Wii U.
1st party holds just 7 spots in the top 30 on Switch.

Almost completely opposite. 

Fun fact: The best selling 3d party title on Wii U was a Microsoft game.

Let's see this develop after we get a few more first party games, no?

Ya his comparison is kind of funny.

Obviously 1st party titles cant make up a majority of the top 30 if there are less than 10 released.



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RolStoppable said:
zorg1000 said:

Ya his comparison is kind of funny.

Obviously 1st party titles cant make up a majority of the top 30 if there are less than 10 released.

It's also heavily flawed to count games in a top 10, top 20, top 30 etc.

What matters is that third party games sell in relation to their budget and as long as third parties don't release a plethora of system sellers, Nintendo is forced to carry the system which in turn means that Nintendo must dominate the top sellers on their console. A lot of people make the mistake to consider a Nintendo-heavy list a bad thing, but the better Nintendo games sell, the better the console sells, the better third party software sells.

In one year of Switch there has hardly been any third party game to sell 1m copies while Nintendo already has three games above 5m. But that isn't really important because we've got plenty of news of satisfied third parties because they judge in relation to budget, not their placement on a top seller list.

Exactly, somebody tried arguing with me about 3rd parties having success on Switch. His argument was based on an arbitrary number he considers successful while mine was based on devs/pubs saying they are happy with their sales on Switch.

If a game sells 10k and the studio is happy with the profits they made than the game is a success.

If a game sells 3 million and the studio takes a huge loss and has to layoff half their staff than the game was a failure.

Some people dont understand that.



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Just got The Bridge.



I have to say having played through Frederic, that is one pretty cool game, just definitely needs a rebind from LZ to RZ if you are right handed like myself I think and then the game is a great little amplitude / guitar hero clone with some great remixes of classic music by Chopin, bought the 2nd game too but have yet to fire it up.

If playing it... get headphones, the games music remixes deserve it.



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