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curl-6 on 30 May 2020
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TheBraveGallade said:
Agente42 said:

It's not that. The 3rds treat Nintendo consumers as second class citizens. Aways. When the threat of good support and good games tend to sell well. Dragon Quest IX is the best selling dragon quest in one single sku. Capcom has 3 MH, three years in sequence, sells more than 4 Million. Just Dance is the best selling Ubisoft single SKU game in the Wii. Microsoft sells gangbusters with Minecraft. Bravely Default tops 2M. Nintendo aways reports have more and more thirds millions of sellers. Dragon Quest XI has a spike of sales more than 1.5 millions after the Nintendo Switch release, worldwide. Level 5 explode in sales in every Nintendo handheld. 

In turn, aside from a few noteworthy franchises, nintendo fans treat third parties as second class themselves.

LGBTDBZBBQ said:
Farsala said:

At this point I expect all same day release 3rd party games to do better than the PS4 version due to the install base difference. The games in the past get a pass, but they still launched on a system with a growing install base.

As for late ports... I feel like a game like DQXI S should outsell a game like Arms by a mile due to quality difference regardless, not to mention for the fact that it sold much later in the Switch's life. SE put a lot of effort into the Switch version, but the sales simply aren't DQ levels.

It's much easier for 3rd party games to sell on PS4 when there zero million seller from 1st party to compete with. 

Animal Crossing new horizons alone is bigger than Monster Hunter World+Final Fantasy 7R +Dragon Quest 11 combined on PS4. 

Top 5 games in Japan this Gen

1. Animal Crossing 

2. Smash Bros Ultimate

3. Pokemon Sword and Shield

4. Splatoon 2

5. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

If you take a look at the last fiscal year, Nintendo generated more profits than Sony gaming division, Capcom, and Square Enix combined. 

I kinda agree with EA on this, Nintendo 1st party titles on Switch are too monstrous and most of those still retain a full MSRP. 

I think at this point people need to accept the reality of current Nintendo Switch software situation. 

Their domination on software sales make it hard for third party games to compete in the same environment. 

You don't need to sell on par with Mario Kart or Smash Bros to be successful though. A game like Octopath Traveler, which sold over 2 million, did well enough that Square opened up a new department to make Switch games.

Other third party titles like Skyrim, Crash Bandicoot,