Nintendo's success with the Switch both a blessing and a curse?

[scottslater]

zorg1000 said:

scottslater said:

I didn't say that was how sales work... I said you it will give you an idea of how well it is doing right now by using the largest retailer in the most important market in the console industry (not to take away anything from other markets).

Why do you think MK sells better on those other consoles, because Switch owners go with the "better" game in SSBU.

That's such a specific qualifier that it means almost nothing.

This is a website dedicated to game sales, it has all the data you need to see that MK has consistently done better on other platforms.

And Smash outsells other fighting games by a wide margin, so again, there is no reason for Nintendo owners to buy other fighting games because of Smash.

EDIT: For example, just last month SSBU outsold MK11 and that doesn't include digital sales of SSBU.

EDIT2: Also, dismissing Amazon is pretty ignorant, Amazon accounts for 50% of all online retail sales and 5% of all retail sales in general.

EDIT3: Actually, Amazon has a pretty large share of the retail business of video games, almost 7% ($1 billion sales recorded in a $14.5 billion market in 2017)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/725702/us-amazon-top-selling-video-game-categories/

https://venturebeat.com/2018/01/18/npd-2017-an-incredible-year-for-games-leads-to-11-sales-growth/

Last edited by scottslater - on 13 December 2019