Why are third party games selling well on Switch?

[Miyamotoo]

Soundwave said:

A million+ confirmed or probably close:

Octopath Traveller
Bomberman R
Rocket League
Minecraft

500k-750k most likey:

Skyrim
FIFA
Hollow Knight

Relative to what third parties have put out for the system, I'd say that's pretty good. If GTAV or COD were out, they would be 1+ million sellers no problem (probably 2-3+ mill for GTAV). Final Fantasy XV if ported even with downgraded graphics but some new content would sell 1-1.5 million copies. There's room for third parties to make some money here.

Games like Skyrim and Fifa are also around 1m not around 500-700k, I mean even VGC have them around 0.95m without digital sales.

Number of games with 500k-1m range is far bigger, for instance 8 months ago Bandai Namco reported that Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 passed 500k on Switch, surprising Steam sales in that moment.

Last edited by Miyamotoo - on 14 August 2018