Why are third party games selling well on Switch?

[COKTOE]

Alkibiádēs said:

COKTOE said:

Sure. I get off on AAA games. I didn't bring it up to address a disparity in the 2 meta lists or anything.....Do you get off on 80+ metascores?

24 of those indies games came out on the PS4 in years prior, massively skewing the number of 2018. Which is the year you referenced. Which is the point. You're bringing up 2013-2014? Why? What does that have to do with the topic at hand?

You paid $15 for Hollow Knight? You'll go with indies? Fantastic. I have hundreds of indies. Again, it has nothing to do with the lists you brought up.

Switch is releasing games at a "pace not even the PS4 can match" because it's plundering indie games from the past and releasing them in 2018. And the few AA/AAA games on the list ( Battle Chasers, South Park, YS VIII, Okami HD ) are simply late ports. Again, almost all old news on the PS4. Close to 60% of the Switch's 2018 80+ games are not even 2018 games. Do you think the Switch will have so many games from years prior in 2019? 2020? It will likely be more in step with the other consoles in that regard simply because it's drawing upon a very finite source, especially as it concerns titles of worth, that have the potential to score 80+ on metacritic.

Switch will beat the PS4 in 2019 again in terms of quality games yes, it's no contest anymore. We see more and more indie games going console exclusive because Playstation Plus is a terrible thing for developers. Indie games sell a lot more on the Switch than the PS4 and developers are starting to take notice. 

And there are barely any decent third party AAA games on the PS4 this year lol. 

By the way, 15 of the 36 games on the PS4 that scored over 80% aren't from 2018 either... So don't be a hypocrite LOL.

- Shadow of the Colossus (remake)

- Owlboy

- Injustice 2: Legendary Edition

- Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition

- Sonic Mania Plus

- Dark Souls Remastered

- Assasins Creed Origins: The Curse of the Pharaohs (DLC expansion)

- Prey: Mooncrash (DLC expansion)

- Yakuza 6: the Song of Life (released in Japan in 2016)

- Street Fighter: 30th Anniversary Collection

- Burnout Paradise Remastered 

- Lumines Remastered

- Slime-San: Superslime Edition (released on Switch first)

- Mega Man X: Legacy Collection 1 & 2

- Dragon's Crown Pro

You certainly like to toss around "lol" liberally. Way too liberally. Stop it. Nothing about this is funny, unless you think it's funny that I'm wasting my fucking time on this topic. Looking at lists and shit, comparing release dates.......Ok it's kinda funny.

The criteria I used was looking at the release dates on metacritic. What criteria did you use?

- Megaman X Legacy Collection  1 & 2. Released on the same day on all platforms. Did it come out as a collection prior to this? OK, then is also gets added to the Switch list of 80+ games already released.

- Street Fighter 30th - Again, same release date. What are you talking about? That the games existed in some form prior to this? No shit. It's also on the switch 80+ list. Another nullification.  

- Sonic Mania Plus - Another one

- Owlboy - Yep

- Shante HGH Ultimate

- Lumines

- I forgot to add DCK: TF in my original list.

By your criteria, these all go onto the Switch list as well, as they were not on my original list. I suppose I have to post that later....Don't have to though. It's all there on MC.

As for your PS4 list:

- Yakuza 6 - Including a game released in another region, but not in the rest of the world. Bullshit. MC doesn't include JP only games to begin with.

- Remasters are exempt, so I'm removing them from your PS4 list for the sake of convenience.

- DLC expansions are new, reviewed content. Why are the disqualified? Because it's convenient? Doesn't meet your standards of a reviewable piece of software? OK, well, the Switch games that are on Ipad/Iphone also aren't worthy, so they don't count on the new list I'm inventing. So, also gone from the Switch 2018 list are

- Inside

- Super One More Jump

-Splatoon 2 DLC

ALSO, even though though it was only listed for Switch on MC, this was out earlier in 2016 on Steam.

- Layers Of Fear

 

So, with all the PS4 games you listed that are also guilty of the same thing on Switch, that I didn't include initially ( + 6 ), DLC - Splatoon 2 ( + 1 ),  I-Phone games not being worthy ( + 2 ), forgetting DCK: TF, ( +1 ), and Layers Of Fear ( +1 ) that brings the Switch list up to (41) 80+ games already released on other platforms in previous years.

Removing remasters, because there's a clear difference between re-releasing an improved version of an AAA game, and a do-nothing, late port of an indie, removing the remake, removing Yakuza 6, and going by the criteria you laid out it's 41 pre 2018 games for Switch and 8 for PS4.

Last edited by COKTOE - on 10 August 2018