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SWORDF1SH on 05 March 2018
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Miyamotoo said:
SWORDF1SH said:


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.

Agreed that VGC can be dodgy but I don't think we can completely dismiss them. And I understand what you're trying to say but without knowing how well games sell on the store and saying that "they sell better than Nintendo exclusives so the must be selling good" doesn't really work when comparing games that have retail releases to digital only games, which most of them are. 

Again, we don't know how much those games are selling. This is all I'm trying to say.