Switch has sold 1.5m units (Superdata)

[zorg1000]

Safiir said:

zorg1000 said:

Ok, what about DS or 3DS? How much did 3rd party AAA multiplats contribute to their sales?

3 out of 4 of Nintendos most recent gaming devices sold good-great with limited AAA support, ironically the only one that sold extremely poorly had the best AAA support.

I think we should be able to agree that 3rd party AAA multiplats have little impact on Nintendo sales.

 Especially the DS had INSANE 3rd party support. Those were games tailored for the (obviously weaker) handheld hardware. But they had incredibly well selling third party games. 3DS had monster hunter for crying out loud :/ Admittedly it is mainly a japanese franchise but the sales ratio clearly show that. Of course those were not with the same budget as 3rd party AAA games for home consoles but the price tag of both the games and the handheld itself reflected that.

Fact is - every Nintendo handheld has had all the 3rd party support you can dream of. If the switch doesn't manage that then it'll be a problem.

GBA, DS, Wii & 3DS all had good-great 3rd party support but very few of those titles would be considered AAA while GC & Wii U had a much higher emphasis on AAA multiplats and did poorly which proves that AAA 3rd party games are not required for Nintendo hardware to be successful.