Nuvendil said:
Yes, because Switch owners HAVE to buy games regularly or their brain explodes. These are games not cocaine. If owners think the game is bad it won't sell. Lack of competition means its easier to get attention. It does NOT mean it is easier to get positive attention. Wonderful 101 launched on an even more starved Wii U and sold like ass. And the Dreamcast and Saturn were home to many games that had little competition that sold terribly. Just a lack of competition doesn't mean sales will go up. This isn't cocaine, where taking out the premium dealers results in people buying the shady crap cut with contaminants in some rat hole. These are video games. |
The dreamcast was not a handheld, nor has the Switch launched near the PS2 announcement (I don't need to remind you how big of a deal that was back then). On top of that, the Dreamcast sold very poorly and launched with virtually nothing. Still, looking at VGChartz, games did sell well on such a low install base - 520,000 for Seaman. 3 other titles over 400k, 6 other titles over 300k.
W101 - I have no idea whether it was marketed or not on the WiiU, whether it was actually properly shipped to retailers or anything. We know Nintendo spend a lot to market the games that they develop.
