Japan Sales Week 40 Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - October 1-7, 2018

[Train wreck]

zorg1000 said:

Train wreck said:

By this point in the Switch's lifecycle, I would expect a significant disparity between it and the PS4 when it comes to third party titles releasing on the same day (especially those that favor the Switch audience) but 3rd party Switch titles are receiving the Vita sales treatment...which isn't good (from the publishers perspective).

Anybody who has payed attention to Japanese sales for the last few years knows that it takes awhile for 3rd party sales to transition from 1 platform to the next.

The exact same thing happened with Vita & PS4, for the first year or two PSP & PS3 versions were selling just as much or better.

19 months is more than enough time to see a trend establishing.  Many of the games released on the PS4 and PSV simultaneously never appeared on Nintendo consoles... so that, along with having no Playstation portable replacement plus the PS4 winding down means that, to me, we should be seeing the Switch start expanding this market (3rd party titles, Switch has the most active userbase and its sales projections are greater than the Vita and PS4) and its just not happening.