curl-6 said:
colafitte said:
The impression i have with Switch after these numbers is mixed.
It's obvious 1st party games sales and US, EU and JP hardware sales have been very strong, but Nintendo still has work to do in other areas, because if Switch has sold 210M games and MK 8 DX, SMO, SSBU, ZBOTW, PKLG, SP2, SMP, NSMBUD, 1-2S, and MTenA sum already almost 100M of those sales, that means the rest of the games (mostly 3rd party games) are not selling that well....
I presume is part of having such a strong 1st party lineup, it eats everything else i guess....
And 2'1M shipped this quarter and 18M projected for the total FY is lower than i expected, although is on par of what initially did at the start of the year. I guess we have been distracted by the lack of complete information about worldwide sales and we made too much fuzz about US, JP and some european countries sales... Despite all of this, if Switch ships 18M this FY it would be a phenomenal year and is still on pace to be between 3DS and Wii numbers in the end. |
There's been plenty of third party success stories on Switch. Yeah, as a whole they could be doing better, but frankly that's on third parties for largely making fuck all effort.
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Whenever I see people saying 3rd party games can't sell on the Switch, I think about the Switch's 3rd party library and wonder which games they think should be selling 2m+ aside from Mario+Rabbids (which is probably closer to 3m than 2m). 3rd party games are selling better or as well as should be expected when you take into account each game's individual negative circumstances (late port/feature crippled/badly done port) and the Switch's install base size. In order for the Switch to have a 3rd party game that sells at 1st party Nintendo levels, 3rd parties will need to provide a game that's realistically capable of reaching that goal.
Last edited by wombat123 - on 30 July 2019
