Why is the Switch still not getting big games from 3rd parties? October edition

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Alby_da_Wolf said:
NS is already doing better now than Wii U lifetime on 1st parties, but it also already has 2 3rd party 1M+ sellers. Yes, as usual on Ninty HW, 1st party SW will take the lion's share, but the trend for 3rd parties already appears better than on Wii U. Some big games probably won't ever be portable at all to it, but as for the others, as NS user base will grow, more expensive ports will become viable. Whenever a port will be possible, the key will always be profitability.

A lot of it has to do with the fact that Nintendo is generally the company that makes the games that sell the console. The killer apps are from Nintendo. There are only two times in Nintendo's history that I can recall people picking up consoles for third party games: the SNES with Street Fighter 2, and the Wii with Just Dance. Just Dance was kind of a sleeper hit that blew up in the later period of the Wii's lifecycle when a lot of hardware resells were available - so Just Dance likely wasn't a huge help to Nintendo. It likely helped other companies on later-gen software sales the Wii experienced between 2010 and 2012 by keeping Wii users active on the platform during that period.