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GOWTLOZ on 09 September 2018
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Slownenberg said:
GOWTLOZ said:

Those games are mostly 2017 games and smaller 2018 games. In a year of noteworthy releases Mario tennis wouldn't have been the top seller anywhere.

As a Switch owner, it was collecting dust post SMO but recently I got Octopath and it has me hooked. But I wouldn't have gotten Octopath of Switch had any big release this year.

PS4 atleast had a plethora of multiplatform games. Also exclusive. Its 2nd year Infamous Second Son was amazing and Driveclub and LBP 3 were still big games, and it had Dragon Age Inquisition, GTA 5 and Far Cry 4 which were way better than previous gen console versions. Switch has a bad port of Wolfenstein to its name in the 2nd year, and Octopath while a good game wouldn't stand anywhere in a year of notable releases.

1st part:

No most of the games are not from 2017. Four of them are - Zelda, MK, Splatoon, Mario - pretty much all the rest of the games dominating the charts recently in the top 10 or 20 are from 2018. Just checked the most recent Global July 28th software charts and yeah the big four games on Switch are obviously kicking ass but the other 11 of the top 15 selling Switch games are from 2018 (with Minecraft being that high up the charts because its a 2018 physical release), and that top 15 Switch games make up half of the top 31 games industry-wide. And you're saying Mario Tennis wouldn't have been a top seller if bigger games had come out...but we're talking about all systems here, so that doesn't make a case for Nintendo not having games, that only makes the case for no systems having top games this year, but of the games that have come out this year Nintendo is currently dominating since it is dominating the top 10 and has basically half of the top 30, all games from 2018 outside of Nintendo's big four from 2017.

2nd part:

No one would argue PS4 has more multiplat games than Switch. That's not what you've been saying. You're trying to say Switch has no games outside of indies, which clearly isn't true since it has been dominating the software charts which don't even include the indies that are dominating the Switch download charts. So in your mind it must make PS4 look realllly bad when despite having 4 times the user base and much more third party support it can barely get a game in the top 10 which Switch has been dominating this summer despite Switch having not a single major AAA release yet this year. Software charts shows Switch is doing fantastic no matter what you say, but if we take your argument it makes PS4 look even worse than the charts show if Switch is dominating despite having your claimed "no games" other than download-only indie titles.

Take a look at this year's charts and not just this week's and you'll get a good perspective. This year Far Cry 5, MH W and God of War have dominated the charts. Just a couple of weeks of some games on Switch selling well and you start talking of Nintendo domination. Dayuuuumm dude.

I said Switch has no big AAA games this year other than ports. Fortnite and Wolfenstein are the big games it got. It'll get some later this year like Dragon Ball Fighterz but there are none so far. Mario Tennis is not AAA by any means. Switch is selling and so is the software. Has nothing to do with this year's releases as its telling that its biggest sellers of the year were released last year.