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Megiddo said:

curl-6 said:

Nobody said first party games don't sell better. That is not the benchmark for success. Third parties do not need to sell as much as Nintendo's games to be successful, all they need to do is be profitable, and again, the fact they're still being brought over in the system's 4th year proves its worth doing.

It's actually not at all enough for a release on Switch to be profitable. It has to be more profitable and offer a higher return on investment than other options or ways that the time, staff, and money spent on the transition to Switch could take. 

I dont think people realize how unprofitable games genreally are, most games do not make a profit. I've even worked on more than a couple that never made money, and to be honest I'm not even sure if the current title will, 3/4 of the workforce are working from home due to Covid, We are already 5-6 months behind schedule and we only started 12 months ago. Studios will use the profits from a smash profitable game to make up for the other games that lost money.