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colafitte on 12 December 2018
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Miyamotoo said:
colafitte said:

8 of 9 are Nintendo first party. That to me is more a problem in the long term than something really great. Switch is not allowing third parties to flourish in the system, not as much as Wii, DS or RDS did, even. Nintendo has already launched almost all of its biggest franchises in Japan (only remains Animal Crossing and new full main Pokemon game). Switch needs more support aside from Nintendo first parties to reach 3DS or DS sales in Japan. I'm not saying there won't be in the future, but right now i'm not seeing that support.

Offcourse that 3rd party game can sell well on Switch, but we here talking about legs, I mean you were rearly see on any platform and on other markets that any 3rd party game has strong sales like Nintendo games do, only notible games to kind to my mind are GTAV and Minecraft. Talking about Nintendo games, you also have 2D Mario, alogside Animall Crossing and Pokemon, and in any case I think that price cuts and revisions will do more for Switch sales in Japan than any game could. Switch 3rd party is increasing, next year from 3rd party we will have Yokai Watch 4 and Dragon Quest 11 S, and those are just currently confirmed games.

2D Mario -> Port

DQ XI -> Port

Yokai Watch 4 is the only game that truly fits in what i'm asking. We are close to finish the second year of Switch and the best 3rd party title still remains Mario Rabbids and it looks like a Nintendo game, not an Ubisoft game. After that ...what?, more ports of old games like Skyrim or Minecraft. And after those, the only 3rd party game reaching 1M or more worldwide must be Octopath Traveler and i doubt it will sell more than 2M. Fifa and other sport games did meh, Diablo 3, Crash Bandicoot and Dark Souls ports (more ports) did nothing too big either....

So where are the 3rd party new games (even exclusive games) from western and eastern companies like Wii, DS or 3DS had?? 2019 will have some more..., but again, except yokai watch 4, i'm not seeing nothing groundbreaking. And to be precise..., i don't mean niche games, i mean games that have the potential to sell 3M, 4M, 5M or more, like the rest of Nintendo first party games, like the big 3rd Party titles PS4 have.

Switch was supposed to change this, like WiiU back then, but both seems to follow the same path.

Edit: And i'm not forgetting indie digital games. They're critically successful but they don't put the world on fire saleswise.