Why are third party games selling well on Switch?

[potato_hamster]

Miyamotoo said:

potato_hamster said:

Do you know how annual sports games sales work? Over 95% of them are in the title's first year. NBA 2K16 didn't sell more than 2K17 because it's been out longer. That's not how it works at all.

As for third party game publishers being happy with their sales numbers, why do we need statements? The numbers do all the talking for it. All you have to do is look at the number of third party games that have been published on Vita on 2015, 2016, 2017 and now 2018. You'll see a lot of the same publishers still putting out multiple games a year. Do they hate money and like losing it putting out game after game after game on the Vita, or do they appear to be content even today? And again, this I DO NOT think third party games sold well on the Vita. I'm just using the same low standard people are using for the Switch and applying them to the Vita.

There was also plenty of games that sold better on Wii U compared to Xbox 360. Like the Just Dance series, many of the Lego series and Rayman Legends

I know, but older sports games are very often have huge deals and can be bought for few bucs will new ones cost $60, and again, you comparing difrent games not same.

We dont need them, but they also gave us one big picture. Vita rececing much less games than few years ago, Wii U dont rececing any games for quite time now.

Yeah, there are few examples that generaly sell well on Nintendo platforms in any case, but we dont talking about those games, no one mentione Just Dance and Lego like examples od good sales of 3rd party games on Switch.

Why does it matter whether I'm comparing different games or not? I'm comparing similar games in the same series. If your logic is sound, games that come out with a higher install base should sell better than games with a lower install base, yet there are literally hundreds and hundreds examples of video game series where later selling games in that series sell worse on higher install bases, even well before that console's user base begins to migrate to other platforms.

So you need statements to "give you one big picture" but don't seem to recognize that a publisher that doesn't make a statement but is still putting out 2-3 Vita games in 2017 is letting their publishing make that statement for them. For what its worth, there was at least 77 Wii U games released in 2017, and at least 13 games released on Wii U this year. In fact, publisher RCMADIAX has released over 30 Wii U games, most of which were released after 2016. I suppose they must have been pretty happy with the the sales on the Wii U to release so many games on that platform over the years. That or they are sadistic and love lighting money on fire.