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

[Mnementh]

Azuren said:

Mnementh said:

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.

Well, Skyrim is place #48 on PS4, Doom #60 and Xenoverse #102... not even in  the area of the TOP 10. [source]

On XBox One Skyrim is #39, Doom #56 and Xenoverse #136. [source]

The sales of Skyrim on Switch are 52% of the sales on Xbox One. Doom Switch sells at 25%. Xenoverse at 115% (meaning the game sells more on Switch). All three games are late ports. If we don't cherrypick games but look at all, I already counted and have the same amount of games that sell better on Switch compared to X1 as the other way round. So if the sales on Xbox One are acceptable, they are too on Switch. Sure enough on PS4 games usually sell better than on XB1 and Switch. But I never doubted that. What I doubted is that 3rd-parties do so much worse than on XB1, and data shows I'm right.

You can cherry-pick your games you look at, you can compare games that aren't sold, you can twist the bad first party support of Sony and MS as a thing that is bad for Nintendo. But that's all insincere.

The only sincere thing would be, if you say that 3rd-parties on XBox One sell unacceptably bad. As I showed they sell as well on Switch, this would also apply to Switch.

EDIT: Cleaner links.

Last edited by Mnementh - on 03 July 2018