Switch overtakes total PS4 sales in Japan, in less than half the time

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RedKingXIII said:

linkink said:

There were other big games, tons of western thirdparty support. AC3, batman, rayman COD, and many others. it's not anywhere as bad as people make it out to be, switch has gone through droughts as well, after splatoon in april it didn't have a big game till 5 months later.

Wii U would have failed regardless even if it had something similar to the switch lineup. 

It had a good western third party support for the first year, yes. But I don't think this is relevant when we're talking about Japan. These games aren't big sellers or system sellers there. 

And at least Switch had/has medium sized titles or ports to keep the momentum going when there wasn't/is no new major titles. Wii U had nothing, basically. But yeah. I agree. Switch has software droughts. I don't think it's severe as the Wii U ones, though.

Arguably, I don't think Switch has had much of software droughts. For the most part, the Switch has had multiple smaller games release on almost a weekly basis. And tbh, a month or two of no big first party games is nothing compared to the Wii U's first party timeline.

Some will say the first half of 2019 is not great for Nintendo's first party output, but I think it's been passable. January was NSMBUD, which sold beyond even most people's expectations. March was Yoshi's Crafted World, which appears to have good legs so far. June will soon have SMM2. Then you had smaller first party titles like Box Boy! + Box Girl! and Tetris 99.