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Miyamotoo on 12 December 2018
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colafitte said:
Miyamotoo said:

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.

I didnt had NSMBU on mind when I said 2D Mario but something like Mario Maker or new 2D Mario game, but NSMBU will also have strong sales and effect in some degree on Switch. DQ11 is a port but will have effect on sales in any case.

If you paid attention lately you would notice that Switch has increasing 3rd party support, most 3rd party decided or to support or to take Switch more seriously this year, and that means we will start seeing more bigger games next year and in 2020. Also Nintendo itself will keep investing in 3rd party exclusives in any case. Despite point that games like Dark Souls, Diablo 3, CrashBandicot...are ports they still have effect in some degree on Switch sales because we talking about great games in any case that now could be played in full handheld mode.

We just got announced MK11, Crash Bandicoot Racing and Marvel Heroes like Switch exclusive, we will have much more of those when we actually get in 2018.

But Switch is changing this, its getting very wide support on market, going from Indies, to A, AA, last gen ports to some AAA games and 3rd party exclusives, and we can expect much more of all that next year.

 

Look on this list will gave you clear picture just how much stronger 2019. currently looks compared to how 2018. looked in same period of last year:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=238576&page=1#