EA: "There isn't much room for other titles than 1st party on Switch"

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DonFerrari said:

Mnementh said:

Actually, I present the games, that are actually there as evidence, that 3rd-party games sell. EA is actually using the absence of evidence as their main argument. You do with your closing statement, because not much of the games that released on Switch have sold more than 2M on other platforms, and those who are are mostly late ports (Skyrim) or seriously diminished versions (FIFA Legacy). I instead argue with games that are actually released on Switch, and that do as well or even better than their releases on other platforms.

Late ports and stripped versions have sold quite well on other platforms.

The other devs aren't considered such garbage as EA right? So what reason have they to not release those games on Switch? That is the evidence you need, they release what they believe will profit them (they may be wrong) same with EA.

What they believe would sell haven't crossed 2M.

Or are you suggesting that they just want to release what wouldn't sell blockbuster numbers? The old argument that pubs think Nintendo money is bad money.

scottslater said:

Do you have evidence to back up that last statement?

EDIT: from the list of games that I could find of best selling Switch games it only accounts for 172.51 million of the total sales of 310.65 games sold on the Switch, so there is still a lot of games being sold that are likely not Nintendo games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Nintendo_Switch_video_games

Find 10 3rd party games on Switch that sold more than 2M. There certainly have more than 10 1st party that crossed 2M.

Look at PS4/X1 and you will find plenty of 3rd party games that crossed 2M.

How do you know there arent 10 3rd party games that have sold more than 2 million?

The list you provided is just confirmed titles that have sold over 1 million, it is not a complete list.

Nintendo announces every published title that sells over 1 million in a single fiscal year and updates the top ten after each quarter.

As for Minecraft, we get weekly numbers from Famitsu which show it has sold over 1 million in Japan alone and the developers of Enter the Gungeon publically stated that it has crossed 1 million on Switch.

There is no way of knowing the sales of 3rd party games because the majority of publishers/developers do not give out specific numbers, they say things like "exceeded expectations", "generated x amount of revenue" or "exceeded x amount of active players". Statements that dont tell you the amount of copies sold.