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

Doom Eternal.

How much games sell on PS4/Xbone is irrelevant to whether they're profitable on Switch. If a game like COD or Doom is already made, porting it over to Switch is relatively inexpensive, at 350k (physical only) Doom may have already turned a tidy profit.

I imagine 350K is good for a lot of games. But this is a big budget game and requires a studio to customize it for Switch. I mean its not an easy port job like bringing a PS4 game to X1, where the specs there are very similar.

Also, 350K is kinda exceptional for Switch. Many 3rd party games will not sell that many, Wolfenstein 2 is tacking way behind.

Making the original game was a big budget endeavour, but porting an existing game is much cheaper than creating one from scratch. And while yeah, bringing Doom to Switch would've been more challenging than bringing it to Xbox One, it's also not a case like the 2008-2011 COD titles on Wii where the game basically had to be completely rebuilt. 

And there are also third party games on Switch that have sold far more than Doom, like Skyrim and FIFA.