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Miyamotoo on 05 March 2018
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SWORDF1SH said:
Miyamotoo said:

Agree, and numbers are always welcome, but that doesn't mean we need them to say that 3rd party games are selling quite good on eShop.

 

No we dont, we dont need them to say that 3rd party games are selling quite good on eShop, like list is telling us.

UK is just one market in Europe, and its is not even strongest European market for Switch, so it's not good representative about software sales for Switch in any case. But despite that for instance FIfa for Switch last few weeks in UK is in top 10 of all formats and its selling better even than XB1 version of game. Talking about general 3rd party sales on Switch, most 3rd partys that released some games on Switch said they are satisfired with their sales on Switch and promising stronger support and more games. 

That's a point, there is nothing odd in my statement, when in top 15 best eShop  downloads in February, 13 are 3rd party games, that means that 3rd party games are selling quite good on eShop in any case, and that we dont need numbers to prove that beacuse list is telling us that all those 3rd party games sold than Nintendo games.

You want futher evidance that 3rd party games are selling good on Switch? Look at link down.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=234896&page=1


Ok. We don't have numbers. We have a list. How do you come to the conclusion that the games are selling well? I'm not saying they aren't (just indications that they aren't) but you can't say they are.

A few devs saying they are happy with sales doesn't even come close to any conclusion. Didn't the Rocket League devs say they couldn't believe the sales on Switch or something like that. But that doesn't represent the state of 3rd party games on Switch as a whole. 

Switch version of Fifa selling above Xbox for One week because of a big price cut isn't exactly something to celebrate either. 

 

So what about our very own VGC? Well their numbers don't do much to promote your opinion either. Last year NS sold 42M units of software at retail. 6 Nintendo made games sold 27.6M units. All the other publishers, 14.4M. 

Fact that they are best selling games and selling better than Nintendo games on eShop means they are selling quite good.That's totally logical, I can't believe you have hard time to realise that.

Its not point about few devs, most of 3rd partys that relesed games on Switch said they are satisfied about sales of their games and promised stronger support and more games.

Actually it is because XB1 install base is much bigger than Switch install base in UK in any case. Also we had Fifa numbers for France where EA said they are very satisfied with Fifa sales on Switch.

I wouldn't look too much at VGC numbers, especially when new platform and games for it are in matter. For instance few weeks ago Namco Bandai said that Dragon Ball on Switch passed 500k (sold better on Switch than on Steam) while on VGC numbe were something like 200k.