zorg1000 said:
potato_hamster said:
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.
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You can find multiple third party developers publishers that are/were very happy with their game sales on Vita, Wii U, and pretty much every platform that has allowed developers to develop low budget games at low prices. Which means this argument gives zero credibility to the notion that "third party games are selling well on Switch". There's always going to be developers and publishers that are happy with the sales of games on <insert platform here>
Well it's growing for some devs, while holding steady one other devs, and declining for some other devs. You're only focusing on the developers where support is growing and acting like it represents the average third party developer.
