Capcom: "MHW can't be done on Switch." But might make a Switch specific MH game. (Rumor)

[Azuren]

Mnementh said:

Azuren said:

Good third party games exist on Switch, so your analysis of my argument is more than a little moot. And the fact that not one of those games breaks the top ten is pretty telling.

Sorry, but the big 3rd-party-sellers didn't release on Switch. Let's take a look. The biggest 3rd-party-releases of 2017 on PS4:

1. Call of Duty: WWII

2. FIFA 18

3. Crash Bandicoot Trilogy

4. Star Wars Battlefront II

5. Destiny 2

6. Assassins Creed Origins

7. Tiom Clancy's Ghost Recon

8. NBA 2K18

9. Resident Evil VII

10. Madden 18

They combined sold 45.6 million copies on PS4.

Of these games only FIFA 18 and NBA2K18 released on Switch. Both seemingly sold well enough, that they get the next entry. Crash just released, we will see data of this later (and it will be very interesting to compare this title).

If we only take the two titles that released on Switch, they sold combined 12.8 million copies on PS4. That are 28% of the sales of all ten. So if we extrapolate, we could reasonable assume, that if all or most of the major third-parties would release on Switch, the number of sold games would be three and a half as much. Or differently said: currently less than a third of the sales potential of third parties is used on Switch.

You can combine this with the weakness of first-party titles in the lineup of Sony and MS and you understand why 3rd-party titles are way more dominant in the charts of PS4 and Xbox One.

You can argue all you want, it doesn't change the fact that big third party titles like Skyrim, Xenoverse 2, and Doom aren't even in the top ten. In fact, not one has even broken 1m. You can keep throwing all of these comparisons around, but at the end of the day Switch has a solid third party lineup and none of them are in the top ten.