Famitsu Sales: Week 33, 2020 (Aug 10 - Aug 16)

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JSG87 said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

Top 30

NSW 26 (10 of which are third party)
PS4 4 (3 of which are third party)

This week 10/13 = 77% of third party games are on the Switch.  For about 3 months now, the Switch has consistently had 60-80% of the third party games in the top 30.  This week is no different.  Switch is currently dominating in every way and that includes third party titles.

I'm all for the Switch having 3rd party games, I'm glad it does but if sales aren't high enough for some of them, I expect 3rd parties to pull back sadly.

Third party sales are fine, and third party releases have only been increasing as time goes on. 3rd parties clearly can't expect huge sales on Switch because they only bring late, downgraded, or smaller games to the Switch. But for what they bring the sales are good. It'd be hard to justify a pullback because they don't focus that much effort in the first place and the games still sell decently. If anything we should expect 3rd parties to continue to gradually put in more effort, which is what we've seen so far during Switch's life.