Global Weekly, 4th August 2018, Software

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Slownenberg said:

Switch is gonna take over the industry from PS4 next year. We already see it dominating the top 10 every week this summer, despite not having a single "major" game come out yet this year. Next year instead of 4 perennial selling Switch games living in the top 10 we could have 6 games basically setting up camp in the top 10, and that is before Pokemon or whatever other big hitters they have next year. Pokemon Let's Go and Smash are gonna super charge Switch going into 2019 and if Nintendo throws out a couple new bombs for 2019 other than mainline Pokemon along with perhaps a XL version and a price cut on the OG Switch it's gonna start dominating software and hardware.

When a Toadstool puzzle game that is a port from Wii U is the 9th best selling Switch game of the week and outsells every single non-Nintendo system game except for THE major release so far of the year for PS4, well that makes what is coming pretty obvious - total Switch domination next year.

It's theoretically true that they didn't have any major game this year, but since the console release Nintendo basically has released all their major franchises besides Pokemon, Smash and AC.

Since most people go for Nintendo for exclusives, I guess Nintendo have done everything they could to get this sales figures, releasing basically everything. That explains why Nintendo's on top 10. It's not like they're not releasing major games and selling like this. They've already used almost all their cards:

Mario Kart

Mario

Mario Tennis

Splatoon

Zelda

Kirby

DK