Regarding Switch third party support: Developers don't care about power

[Mnementh]

DonFerrari said:

Soundwave said:
Switch third party efforts don't need to sell on par with other systems, they just have to be profitable, I would bet Capcom is pretty happy with those Street Fighter and Megaman sales on Switch.

If you look at the eShop rankings there is quite a bit of diversity for people who buy online (which is great for pubs because there's not retailer cutting into their profit), the top 10 isn't just Nintendo games.

At retail for the time being Nintendo will dominate because they've brought big guns to the Switch whereas others haven't, but even then we are seeing third party software doing alright on Switch.

Also no offence to the site, but we know VGChartz numbers can't be taken as gospel, they are estimates.

Still, releasing 10% of the products and retaining 70% of the marketshare is to much.

There are two reasons for it:

First: Nintendo is an insanely successful game maker.

Second: Most high prolific games aren't releasing on Nintendo platforms.

See, Ubisoft would have much higher sales on Switch, if the had released Destiny, Assassins Creed, For Honor and Far Cry. Because currently these high profile IPs add to the sales for Ubisoft games on Switch... nothing.

You can fairly compare only the games released on all platforms: Just Dance, Fractured but Whole, Doom, Skyrim, Wolfenstein. Many of these are old ports. Hmm, VGC has no data (yet?) for Switch sales of South Park and Wolfenstein. For Skyrim I gfo with the special edition as the release for PS4 and XB1.

	PS4	Xbox One	Switch
Just Dance 2018	0.25M	0.18M	0.53M
Doom	2.58M	1.36M	0.33M
Skyrim	3.04M	1.69M	0.82M
Minecraft: Story Mode	0.87M	0.77M	0.34M
Dragon Quest Builders	0.58M	-	0.15M
Disgaea 5	0.35M	-	0.30M
Lego Worlds	0.93M	0.55M	0.38M
FIFA 18	11.01M	2.86M	0.81M
NBA 2K18	3.05M	1.85M	0.35M
Puyo Puyo Tetris	0.10M	-	0.42M

So, do 3rd-party games sell worse on Nintendo-platforms? Yes. Is it that bad as painted by the data cited by Meggiddo? No, because that is because many games are not released on Nintendo in the first place. So, the 70% market share is because the other game makers leave the platform to Nintendo. What should Nintendo do? Not release games?

So, these numbers do indeed explain why 3rd-parties are shy to release on Nintendo-platforms. No need to angle for power-explanations or conspiracies or anything. But the dominance of Nintendo-software is because basically so many games are missing on the platform.

We will see more data in the future, with more multi-platform releases like Dark Souls Remastered, Dragon Quest XI and so on.