Why people shouldn't worry so much about the Switch's third party support

[Alkibiádēs]

Captain_Yuri said:

Alkibiádēs said:

I'll use OFFICIAL sales date that Nintendo gave us instead of Vgchartz that is incorrect most of the time...

How do those western third party games sell if we take out their biggest market? Right... It's complete nonsense to ignore Japan. The world doesn't revolve around you Americans you know.

And you think the world revolves around Japan? Those western games cover 2 continents, NA and EU where as Japan only covers Japan. And sure, use official numbers but considering MH never sold well outside of Japan even with official numbers, I doubt its going to change very much.

And I am not ignoring Japan, you are ignoring everyone else. I have said that Japanese third party isn't the problem, western third party is...

https://www.vg247.com/2015/10/21/monster-hunter-4-ultimate-4-million-sales/

I said that Western third party isn't as important because of the hybrid nature of the console (and Nintendo's unified development teams, making them much more efficient). And I stand by it. Obviously the more support the better, but the Switch won't have droughts like the Wii U and 3DS had. If the Switch sells well, there will always be some third party support at least.

And indie games are becoming more popular and Nintendo can definitely count on the support of Western indie developers. Just look at Yooka-Laylee, Shantae; Half Genie Hero, Shovel Knight, Fast Racing Neo (even got a retail release in Europe), Minecraft, Terraria, etc.