DonFerrari said:
They have brought Fifa very fast and all we had were complains here and lack of sales WW. You bring numbers to your assumption or that will only be you buffing and padding what is know. Ps4 is about 25-30% digital (which aren't in VGC tracking), Switch have small storage. So unless you can prove that it's higher on Switch there is no pointing in assuming so.
Yes the numbers are from VGC, so of course they are a little more than 1 month outdated, but I guess you already knew that. I just put all that had any global sales that weren't 0, but sure could remove the few that had 0 USA sales. That wouldn't change the fact that very few non-nintendo games had any high sales. I can just revert your question and ask if Nintendo (Switch included) is so great for 3rd parties why doesn't it have the support from all of them? Why does some of them just now are starting to show any support? And now Switch is the place that is selling most Indies of all? Link please? Because we have heard this a lot of times, but I'm pretty sure if we go pull data Indies sell much more on PC, PS4 and X1 in this order. So I'm doing the spin? And Sure EA is such a giant and dumb corporation that doesn't know how do the analysis of their market, but you know... you are yet to explain why Wii did so much worse than PS3 and X360 for Madden, you can also please do the same for Fifa, CoD and other big multiplats released there? You don't see logic because you don't think logically... For they to be releasing on PS2 still, the cost to make the game was lower than what they would earn. They already had the engine running from all the previous games, they already had to update the roster for the current gen, so there wasn't really much work to put a PS2 version (that they had background of the sales being good for several years) and there were profit to be made. While on Nintendo platforms even when current (Wii) that they needed to work on an engine and costed more sold a lot worse. |
The Indy developers themselves are the ones saying that they are seeing higher sales on Switch than on PS4 or Xbox One, and yes, some are saying even better than on Steam.
Has Been Heroes Sells Best on Nintendo Switch
http://nintendoenthusiast.com/blog/2017/10/04/heroes-sells-best-nintendo-switch/
Switch Version Of Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap Sold More Than All The Other Versions Combined
Oceanhorn and Death Squared sold more on Switch than all other platforms
Call of Duty 3 on Wii outsold both PS2 and PS3 versions:
Pos | Game | Platform | Year | Genre | Publisher | North America | Europe | Japan | Rest of World | Global |
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1 | Call of Duty 3 | X360 | 2006 | Shooter | Activision | 1.49 | 0.92 | 0.02 | 0.27 | 2.70 |
2 | Call of Duty 3 | Wii | N/A | Shooter | Activision | 1.17 | 0.84 | 0.00 | 0.23 | 2.24 |
3 | Call of Duty 3 | PS3 | 2006 | Shooter | Activision | 0.60 | 0.63 | 0.03 | 0.26 | 1.51 |
4 | Call of Duty 3 | PS2 | 2006 | Shooter | Activision | 0.89 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 1.07 |
The other Call of Duty's on Wii weren't industry leading, but they weren't money pits either:
33 | Call of Duty: World at War | Wii | 2008 | Shooter | Activision | 1.17 | 0.58 | 0.00 | 0.18 | 1.94 |
39 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Reflex Edition | Wii | 2009 | Shooter | Activision | 0.94 | 0.43 | 0.00 | 0.14 | 1.51 |
41 | Call of Duty: Black Ops | Wii | 2010 | Shooter | Activision | 0.80 | 0.46 | 0.00 | 0.12 | 1.37 |
49 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 | Wii | 2011 | Shooter | Activision | 0.55 | 0.20 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.83 |
The Wii U never caught on, and so there was never a big userbase for Call of Duty to sell to on Wii U. But, I give Activision a lot of credit at least coming back that 2nd holiday season with Call of Duty Ghosts.
Fifa 08 was a million seller on Wii
1 | FIFA Soccer 08 | PS2 | 2007 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.68 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.46 | 3.14 |
2 | FIFA Soccer 08 | PS3 | 2007 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.35 | 1.07 | 0.02 | 0.31 | 1.75 |
3 | FIFA Soccer 08 | PSP | 2007 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.20 | 0.76 | 0.00 | 0.39 | 1.35 |
4 | FIFA Soccer 08 | X360 | 2007 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.31 | 0.89 | 0.01 | 0.14 | 1.35 |
5 | FIFA Soccer 08 | Wii | 2007 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.32 | 0.59 | 0.01 | 0.12 | 1.03 |
Fifa 09 and 10 were under, but Fifa 11 on Wii broke a million copies again.
4 | FIFA Soccer 11 | Wii | 2010 | Sports | Electronic Arts | 0.26 | 0.69 | 0.00 | 0.12 | 1.08 |
These might not be stellar #'s to you, but since when was 1 million sales not worth a developer's time to port their game to another system?