friendlyfamine said:
No new Nintendo game was released in February or January, nor any significant exclusive release. The biggest new game in January for the Switch was clearly Celeste, and that game is not exclusive. Bayonetta 2 is not exclusive either, and there were no new Nintendo releases in February. So you're ultimately left with indies, and that's not going to increase sales of the Switch. Third party companies are not jumping on board with the Switch consistently enough, and we can't afford to have months like this again. While the Switch performed decently in January overall, just imagine how much better it could have sold if there were at least 2 good physical releases, particularly from third-party developers that aren't just ports. Just that extra push could facilitate the process of Nintendo reaching their financial projection this year, and perform as competently as possible. While owners may be satisfied with the games they already own, new consumers like to see a variety of new interesting physical titles available on the shelves from time to time to see that a system is expanding as product in terms of opportunities, and thus would be more inclined to hop on board and purchase the said product. As you may have seen already with the NPD data, FighterZ and MH topped the charts, and were new games released that month. If any decently hyped up physical exclusive was released the same month (for example, Pikmin 4) it would have at least made the NPD, and it appears that no new Switch release made the NPD. |
January is always slow month for releases. Fact that Bayonetta 2 is not exclusive dont change nothing beacuse was only availible on Wii U that had very limited user base (Switch already has bigger install base than WiiU), not to mentione that Switch offers full handheld mode. In February alongside Bayonetta 1/2 and plenty of Indie games, we also had Dragon Quests Builders. Porting requires time, plenty devs started devolping games for Switch after become obvious that Switch will be quite successful and that 3rd party games selling good on it, so we probably talking about past several months. Switch dont need huge releases curently to keep momentum, it won NPD for January despite had only Indie games. Offcourse that FighterZ and MH topped charts when they are multi platform games released on much bigger install bases, fact that only 3 exlusives in top 10 are Nintendo games is very impressing in any case. At end like I wrote, Switch lineup dont have anything with Wii U droughts.
