@bolded Sure, but you're trying to make an argument against my reply by bringing up a trend, but my point doesn't go against your point either. They aren't mutually exclusive. I know that all these ports will sell moderately better than their predecessors (could have sworn I wrote that in my OG comment but I guess I didn't lol), my point was literally just that the sales difference won't be so significant that the same old tired point for the ports existence would be instantly validated. 

There is no data on it, so the whole "your point works against" you thing isn't really working for you, lol. You can't criticize someone for being ambiguous when there is literally no reference to go on. Especially when it's well known people rebuy games as ports all the time. Whereas, I very much can criticize just saying something has "solid legs" as a way of trying to make it look as if a thrown egg will have the same  trajectory as a bullet. 

I think the problem is we aren't even disagreeing but you really want the improved sales to mean we do have to disagree. Look, these ports sell really well for what they are, and all you can really ask for is for them to sell better than the incredibly lackluster sales of their original editions. I think though it's more than obvious I'm not talking about that, though.

The argument of Megiddo is flawed in it's core: if 3rd-party games aren't released on Switch in the first place, they can't sell. Megiddo claims the highest 3rd-party title for Switch is placed only #26. But let's take a look which 3rd-party titles are placed higher on other platforms: PUBG, Yakuza 6, Powerful Pro Baseball, Star Wars Battlefront II, Crash Bandicoot, Call of Duty: WWII, Monster Hunter World, Grand Theft Auto V, FIFA 18, Far Cry 5. Of all these titles only FIFA is released on Switch (Crash will be released later on Switch). Yes, FIFA sells pretty bad, but even for Xbox One FIFA charts way lower at #62. So, Megiddos argument is basically: look how all the unreleased games aren't selling. Bad Switch!

I mean, first party titles make up only ~10% of Nintendo Switch software available at retail. So if your argument is that there aren't any third-party games on the system it's a rather humorous one. @Mnementh

Crash should be interesting. How well do you expect it to do on the Switch? It's a platformer with a cartoonish look and is family friendly, so it hits pretty much all the checks for the Nintendo fanbase.

I don't know what is humorous about this. Non-existing software can't sell. So your argument that 3rd-party software sells worse on Switch is flawed. As I showed here, if 3rd-party software is released on Switch, it sells about as well as on XBox One.

I agree about Crash. Crash probably will do pretty well on Switch, as Rayman Legends (which sells launch aligned even in front of the PS4-version) and Sonic Forces already do. I think it is plausible that Crash sells more on Switch than on XBox One.

Bayonetta, DK and Labo aren't showing up on Switch's page...

Games selling better on Switch than Xbox.

Rayman Legends
DB Xenoverse 2
Cartoon Network Battle Crashers
RBI Baseball
Troll and I
Has-Been Heroes
Lego City Undercover
Rime
Portal Knights
Cars 3
Resident Evil: Revelations
Lego Ninjago Movie
Just Dance 2018
Sonic Forces
LA Noire
Ben 10
Attack on Titan 2

I'm not sure where you're getting data for Resident Evil Revelations. Are you pitting numbers for Revelations Collection against only Revelations 1 on X1 instead of also including Revelations 2?

Are you noticing a main theme here? LA Noire is the only western developed game that's not cartoony/kid-friendly that's above X1. And that's because most the people who have an X1 already played it on the 360 where it sold over 2.5 million copies.

So when a game is announced that isn't cartoony and/or kid-friendly then don't be shocked if there isn't a Switch version. Since PS4 and X1 have the same x86 architecture and have similar specifications the amount of effort needed to make a version for X1 when already making one for PS4 is scant. That's not the case for the Switch.

Games of the above listing that sell better on Xbox contain: Minecraft Story Mode, Farming Simulator, Just Dance 2017, Skylanders, Overcooked, Lego Worlds, Lego Marvel Super Heroes - cartoony games. Again, you're telling us, if basically all ports to Switch are cartoony games, only cartoony games sell. Or in other words: your world-shattering insight is, that unreleased games don't sell. Again.

So you again and again present as your logic: because no western games released so far on Switch, no western games on Switch should release.

I think you need to put things into context and look at the 3rd party retail games on Switch.

The majority of 3rd party retail games are ports that released much earlier on other platforms, physical versions of games that released digitally months earlier, niche Japanese titles, shovelware that sell poorly everywhere.

Which 3rd party retail titles should be selling a similar amount as the Nintendo IP on Switch?

FIFA should be outselling 1-2 Switch. There is a whole lot more value and replayability in playing the world's #1 sport on the go than a tech demo that gets old after not much time at all. Doom should have done way better considering all the care that went into the port and the lack of similar games on the system.