zorg1000 said:
potato_hamster said:
I never said it was like the Wii U. I said the bar you were setting to measure determine that third party games are selling well on the Switch can also be used to determine that third party games sold well on the Wii U. According to the numbers I got from Wikipedia, support for year two was slightly better. I'm willing to take your numbers as factual for the sake of argument, but let's not act like I just threw out some random comment without stats.
But honestly, while I wouldn't disagree with the fact that support is increasing in variety of ways, its just that's still not a very high bar for saying third party games are selling well, is it? There really should be more third party games for any console in its second year over its first. There should be an increase in more risky/niche third party titles after the first year of a consoles life. This is the bare minimum. As I replied to someone before - if someone said in the PS4's second year, the notable third party support was a dark souls remaster, a south park game, two annual sports games, warframe, a dragonball fighter game, and a doom remake, you'd probably wonder what the fuck Sony was doing for third parties to be supporting it so poorly. Frankly - that really isn't an impressive list at all, it's just a hell of a lot better than what Nintendo fans have gotten used to over the last decade or so.
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The difference in your comparison is that 3rd party support was great from the beginning for PS4, so if that was its 2nd year support than it would mean most games didnt do too well.
Switch on the other hand had a whopping 17 retail games from March-June of last year, it had about 4 times as many in the same time frame this year.
Context is key, most third parties who have released Switch games are continuing to support it while more and more are announcing games for it. This is a sign that overall 3rd party games are doing well, ill repeat well not great, amazing, spectacular, etc.
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Personally I think context is less important than you're making it out to be. There's a difference between "good third party support" and "good third party support for a Nintendo console", I think you're more focused on the "for a Nintendo console" part, whereas I'm putting them all on the same playing field.
Honestly, when it all boils down to it, I think the only thing separating us is how we're defining "well".
