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Mr Puggsly on 05 September 2018
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curl-6 said:
Mr Puggsly said:

25 and 35 year olds may not necessarily want to play vastly inferior versions of games though.

Also, I look at the sales of Wii U games. The top selling games on the platform look like the typical Nintendo audience for the most part. Probably because Switch isn't just the successor to Wii U, but the successor of the significantly more popular platform called 3DS.

I know Bethesda said their games have done well on Switch, but the numbers don't really reflect that in my opinion. PS4 and X1 did a better job selling 3rd party content at launch than Switch has in its life (that's a userbase argument I made).

How much games sell on PS4/Xbone isn't relevant to whether sales on Switch are profitable. They wouldn't have funded Doom Eternal for Switch if Doom was a money-loser.

Perhaps they are betting on the Switch long term even if the current sales are modest. Activision did this with CoD on Wii, but according VGChartz sales declined with each release. MW3 was one of the best selling ever in the series but did poor on Wii.

Doom did okay, but those numbers wouldn't get much praise on Xbox or PlayStation. Wolfenstein 2 might be a flop on Switch. Will Doom Eternal sell as well as its predecessor? If the answer is no, then support may not last.

NBA 2K18 has sold a small fraction of other platforms by the way in spite of having about half the userbase of X1.

There are a few 3rd party games that have done well on Switch like Skyrim, Sonic and a few other games due to limited options in the launch window. But it seems like Switch is another platform primarily played by Nintendo fans. Whether it be fans of the NES to Wii U, Gameboy to 3DS. Nintendo has again been successful at appealing to its target audience.

But when the X1 had a userbase of 20 million, it did a much better job at selling 3rd party games then Switch currently does. Its also possible many Switch owners also use a X1 or PS4. That would mean they tend to use Switch for its exclusives.

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