RolStoppable said:
It's easy to explain. All of the third party titles are ports and most of them late ones; additionally, these ports got marketed like low-key affairs, i.e. not much at all. Furthermore, not all of the listed games have been released worldwide and a couple of them had limited printruns. On the other hand you have 1-2-Switch which is an exclusive for a new console and heavily advertised. If 1-2-Switch was made by EA or Ubisoft, the marketing effort would have been significantly lower, plus the publishers' reputation would have also had a negative impact on sales. When a company name is associated with shit, then it's harder to sell games. Such a reputation is built by each company itself, so it's not anything that Nintendo could help third parties with. On the other hand, Nintendo's reputation is good enough that any of their games is given the benefit of the doubt by many consumers. Said reputation isn't going to suffer from one disappointing game, because the other titles Nintendo has put out for Switch so far make a strong case to keep trusting Nintendo. |
Yeah.. I guess marketing would be the safest way to explain it. Marketing is indeed a powerful thing.
And about the bolded paragraph... we can see that is how most of Nintendo fans feel about other developers, so that also helps to understand why there is such a big difference in sales between 1st and 3rd party games.
Now, I think that the Switch is gonna change that a little bit, as I believe that it is gonna attract many non-hardcore Nintento fans this time around.
