Why are third party games selling well on Switch?

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Mnementh said:

Alkibiádēs said:

So let me see if I follow your logic here... EA won't port Madden to the console because Fifa 18 sales were disappointing (according to you), but why then did they announce Fifa 19 for the Switch? LOL.

Also Bethesda just announced that the new Doom will also be released on the Switch, so they must be happy with how their earlier ports sold on the console. Also I made a post in this thread with plenty of sources that show third party games are selling very well on the Switch.

It's funny how Switch success seems to bother people like you. Makes it all the more fun to me. 

It's more how much managers in both companies like the platform or not. Yes, they have to justify their decisions, but there is as much goal-post-moving and bending as in the forums. I personally would say FIFA did not sell well at all on Switch, compared to the other outings. Still, by now it is most likely past 1 million with digital, and physical will be there at latest with the holidays. And with FIFA ported to other stuff including X360 at which it sold much worse than Switch, it is very hard to argue not to bring another FIFA for Switch. Same goes for NBA2K.

With Bethesda we have the strange situation, that Skyrim sells comparatively better than Doom. Still they decided to bring Wolfenstein and Doom Eternal instead of Fallout, which probably would sell better. I say someone at id really likes the Switch.

As per your commentary on FIFA 18 sales, I think it is worth noting the Switch version is not even as feature rich as the others. It sold decent numbers just because it plays well for what it is and not really because it bears the same name as the others when it is clearly not the same game. What is disappointing is that they still did not consider feature parity for FIFA 19 choosing rather to hide behind technical issues with the Frostbyte engine.

NBA 2K18 was initially released as digital only with physical coming only later so that would skew its numbers somewhat but it obviously did enough to get a second outing. The WiiU got only one outing of both franchises so the Switch is certainly doing better saleswise for both franchises.