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Soundwave on 27 August 2017
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curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:

Every bit helps, but generally speaking I think most third parties will grant that kid/family-centric/popular third party IP like LEGO, Just Dance (at least it used to), Sonic, Minecraft, sell well on Nintendo systems. 

But really ever since probably the GameCube era it seems like Nintendo has had little/no luck with genres like shooters/main line action-adventure titles/sports games ... if Skyrim or FIFA sell well ... then Switch is really in uncharted territory for a post-1990s Nintendo system in a lot of ways. 

Call of Duty, Resident Evil, and the Goldeneye remake did fairly well on Wii, crossing the million mark regularly.

One of the COD games sold over 1 million on Wii, it wasn't a regular occurance as I recall. RE did OK but the sales of that declined. I don't think GoldenEye actually hit a million. Monster Hunter did though. 

Granted on Wii everything was skewed because the system had such an overwhelming amount of shovelware type games being the leading third party sellers. When something like Carnival Games out sells every other third party title that kinda sends the wrong message to developers. 

Switch is from marketing a much more conventional game system, Wii was really an outlier even by Nintendo's own standards. On no other Nintendo system would something like "Game Party" or the Just Dance games be the top selling third party software.