potato_hamster said:
Alkibiádēs said:
And again, not a single argument in your post to back up your already poor case. Most of the examples I posted sold over a million copies actually and these games continue to show legs on the Switch.
Games like Rocket League, Stardew Valley, Undertale sell more than most AAA titles lol, but sure, go ahead and ignore it.
Also selling 500K copies can be a life changer for smaller developers. Not every game has the same budget or sales expectations, but apparently you don't seem to understand that. We've already heard stories of small indie developers being saved because of their success on the Switch. Such stories are far more important than some evil multi-billion dollar company adding a few extra millions to their revenue.
Some of you guys really do have a weird fetish for AAA third party games, as if that is all that matters. Obviously games like Doom sold well on Switch or Bethesda wouldn't have announced the sequel for the Switch.
Source:
https://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2018/03/16/blossom-tales-developers-avoid-closing-thanks-to-switch-sales-after-poor-steam-showing.aspx
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What are the sales of Rocket League, Undertale and Stardew Valley on Switch vs other platforms? Do you actually know that? Or are you just speculating that these games are selling sell on Switch compared to how they sold on PS4/X1/Vita/whatever? Because I can't find any even quasi solid numbers besides sales milestones,most of which aren't platform specific.
Ignore it? You haven't posted anything relevant. Great. These games at least made money on the Switch, but from what I can see, All of those games might have sold much better on PS4 or X1 or Vita or PC. Even still, even assuming their Switch sales are legitimately impressive. That's three games out of thousands of third party games. You might as well argue that the Wii U had good third party sales using such flimsy, pedestrian metrics.
Heck, take Minecraft,ZombiU and Just Dance. "Look how these three third party games sold on the Wii U! Third Party games definitely sold well on Wii U!" - No one ever.
Yeah, I know that 500K sales can be a huge difference maker for a small indie studio of a couple dozen people. Great, you can list a couple dozen studios that are happy with a few hundred thousand sales, and no one lost their jobs. Good for them.. Still, that doesn't mean third party games are "selling well on the Swtich" just because you can list some examples of small studios that are happy with small sales.. You can find dozens of similar examples for pretty much every video game console made in the past 20 years. How does this mean anything.
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What exactly are you even arguing about? We have had multiple developers/publishers state they are very happy with their games sales on Switch which is much better than using arbitrary numbers to decide if a game has sold well.
If 3rd party games werent selling well than support would be shrinking, not growing like it is from all types of devs.
