| Barkley said: Chart showing lifetime sales (ranked by dollars) in USA:
Simultaneously shows how strong Nintendo games perform and also how, and possibly why, third party support is so bad. They can't compete for the limited wallets of people on that system. Don't know where pokemon would be if they combined them. But GO Mario Party!!! Also Surprised to see Mario+Rabbids above NSMBU. Also 3ds:
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Third parties do not need to sell as well as Mario or Pokemon to be profitable though.
Doom sold like half a million physical on Switch, but that was evidently enough for it to be worth their while following up with Doom Eternal. Ports like Crash and Skyrim sold over a million, which is far more than is needed for conversions like those to turn a profit. April NPD lists Mortal Kombat 11, a third party game, as the best selling Switch title of the month. Octopath Traveler did so well that Square opened a new division for the purpose of making Switch games.
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