Why are third party games selling well on Switch?

[potato_hamster]

Miyamotoo said:

potato_hamster said:

Why do people keep using install base as if it's some extremely critical metric? This "smaller install base" console has more 5+ million sellers in the 1.5 years it's been out than the Xbox One has in the 5+ years it's been out. If there's a game on your platform that isn't bundled and is pushing 10 million+ in sales, I don't see how many "install base" argument can possibly be made since the platform owners are clearly going out and buying the games they want in droves.

How!? With point that if Switch has same install base like XB1 sales of game would be even better, but in any case we going in direction when Switch and XB1 will have similar install base.

How do you know these games would sell better if the install base was bigger?

For example. Take the NBA 2K games on PS4.

NBA 2K16: 3.97M
NBA 2K17: 3.51M (install base increased by 21 million)
NBA 2K18: 3.19M (install base increased by over 10 million so far this year)

By your logic should the sales of these games increased year over year based on the increased install base, instead of decreasing?