Third party Switch ports don't necessarily need to sell as much as PS4 to be successful

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Marach said:

curl-6 said:

How much it sells versus other platforms ultimately doesn't matter as long as it's profitable. If a game sells 5 million on PS4 and 1 million on Switch, but the Switch port makes money, then it is successful.

And devs are human, they make mistakes. Surely you're not suggesting video game developers have never made a bad decision?

but is it really fair to expect a game to sell 5 millions units on switch and 5 millions units on PS4 when there is 18 million switchs out there, and 80 million PS4 ?

Plus the fact that most big third party ports are almost always late on Nintendo consoles even switch. The ones that are on time like Indies almost always sell better on the switch even with a smaller install base. The only thing close to a fair comparison is fifa and that port wasn't very good for the switch at the beginning plus it went out of stock in Europe where it sells which means EA made so little copies of the version to begin with and something happened that rarely happens with games and that's a stock shortage. And FIFA is popular in Europe which is Sony land so selling more than PS4 version would've been nothing short of the biggest miracle in recent gaming history