Why are third party games selling well on Switch?

[Miyamotoo]

potato_hamster said:

Miyamotoo said:

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?

You dont make sense, offcourse that one same game will sell more on one platform with 30m than on same platform with install base with 20m, every Switch game will have better sales when Switch install base is bigger compared to current numbers, also offcourse that every game on XB1/PS4/Switch/3DS has bigger sales because increased install base than it had last year.

Your comparision also dont make sense, first you comparing difrent games and second 2K16 was two years more in sale than 2K17 and one year more than 2K18, also 2K17 was one year longer in sale than 2K18.

 

potato_hamster said: 

zorg1000 said: 

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.

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 

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.

Actually you will very hard find statments that publishers were very happy with their game sales on Vita and espacily Wii U, while with Switch have regulary that kind of statements even in second year, not to mentione that Wii U left without 3rd party in first year and Vita little longer, while Switch is getting increased support.

 

Also, its not point only about statments, you also have sales numbers for plenty of games where games sold better on Switch compared to XB1 or where Switch version of some games sold best. Also look at increasing announcements from 3rd parties for Switch, and numbers of relased games for Switch until now.

Last edited by Miyamotoo - on 13 August 2018