RolStoppable said:
It's also heavily flawed to count games in a top 10, top 20, top 30 etc. What matters is that third party games sell in relation to their budget and as long as third parties don't release a plethora of system sellers, Nintendo is forced to carry the system which in turn means that Nintendo must dominate the top sellers on their console. A lot of people make the mistake to consider a Nintendo-heavy list a bad thing, but the better Nintendo games sell, the better the console sells, the better third party software sells. In one year of Switch there has hardly been any third party game to sell 1m copies while Nintendo already has three games above 5m. But that isn't really important because we've got plenty of news of satisfied third parties because they judge in relation to budget, not their placement on a top seller list. |
Exactly, somebody tried arguing with me about 3rd parties having success on Switch. His argument was based on an arbitrary number he considers successful while mine was based on devs/pubs saying they are happy with their sales on Switch.
If a game sells 10k and the studio is happy with the profits they made than the game is a success.
If a game sells 3 million and the studio takes a huge loss and has to layoff half their staff than the game was a failure.
Some people dont understand that.
When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.
