Why are third party games selling well on Switch?

[Miyamotoo]

potato_hamster said:
Third party games are selling well on Switch? Since when?

Sure they're selling better than they did on Wii U, but multi-platform games are in general not selling that well on Switch. EA hasn't even bothered to port Madden to the Switch, and that's almost exclusively based on FIFA sales.

 

Helloplite said:
They do? This kind of thread warrants some proof first. Yeah, probably doing better than Wii U, which was suicide for third parties to develop for, but is it really doing that well for third parties once Wii, DS, and 3DS are taken into account? Has it even reached the number of GameCube third party million sellers yet?

 

Yes they do, we have numbers, publishers statements, we even have comparison of games on XB1 where around half of compared games sold better on Switch despite smaller install base, not to mention that plenty of Indies stated their games sold best on Switch. 

So we dont talk only about better sales than on Wii U, but better than on 3DS and Wii for current install base,  and even better in plenty of cases than same games on XB1. 

Also we dont talk only about 3rd party games, games are generally selling very good on Switch.