Global software, week ending 18th Nov

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Lonely_Dolphin said:

torok said:

I wouldn't say that since those games are old re-releases. Skyrim was ported to basically everything. Doom was released a year ago. L.A. Noire is also pretty old. I would expect the same for RE.

Now, if games released in the same timeframe than the X1/PS4 version sell way less, than that could be a problem. I don't think it will affect the sales of the Switch, since they seem to depend mostly on Ninty's 1st party titles.

In order to get to the point of 3rd party parity between Switch and PS4/XB1, these testing the waters games have to meet their expectations. If they don't, then they're probably done, just like what happened on Wii U. Course I don't know what their expectations are exactly, but Zombi U sold a modest 500k or so on Wii U, yet that wasn't good enough for Ubisoft. Now we're on Switch, an actually successfully system, so I would think expectations are gonna be higher.

The difference is that ZombiU was a new game built for Wii U, while the likes of Doom and Skyrim are ports. It costs less to port an existing game than it does to build a new one, so if, theoretically, Skyrim/Doom sell about the same as ZombiU, they would make more money.