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

[DonFerrari]

Mnementh said:

DonFerrari said:

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.

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.

Again, I provided examples of games that sold well on Switch compared to other platforms. EA argues with games that aren't even released. So EA basically has no argument and evidence. Why do you feel the need to defend their ridiculous statement?

EA isn't a company that focus on sub 1M games, that isn't pretty much clear? So again, the type of games they do and the type of sales they expect aren't feasible for them on Nintendo not sure why that is a problem.

scottslater said:

DonFerrari said:

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.

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.

Wait, what? You provided a statement without any actual facts and I asked you to provide evidence and then you tell me to find them?

We don't get much data from 3rd party developers, so to make a statement such as "there is a lack of 3rd party games under 2 million copies" when we don't get that data is pretty irresponsible.

You are on VGChartz, just hit  the search button and select Switch as the platform and you'll all the tracked sales. What you won't see are many 2M sellers from 3rd parties.

There is a single game that sold more than 2M on Switch published by a 3rd party, at 17th position with 2.59M sales.

On PS4 you have almost 100 games with over 2M sales (if you put X1 together possibly would be over 150) and most of them are 3rd parties.

zorg1000 said:

DonFerrari said:

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.

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.

I haven't provided a list, maybe you confused poster. I asked him to show 10 games published by 3rd parties on Switch that crossed 2M.