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curl-6 on 28 January 2021
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Mr Puggsly said:
curl-6 said:

Haha, tell that to Momotaro, which cracked 2 million in its first couple of months in a single country, or Monster Hunter Rise, the biggest third party exclusive yet which will arrive in Switch's 4th year. Third party support on Switch has been increasing year after year, not decreasing.

Three years later and your predictions of Switch collapsing are still a mirage. 

3rd party games do well enough to keep coming in general. But its also fair to acknowledge many popular IPs have skipped Switch because potential sales aren't big enough.

I suspect carts might be somewhat expensive, especially large storage carts, which could be impacting support as well. Digital only is less potential sales.

Either way, a vast majority of users wanting 1st party games wouldn't be new for Nintendo though. Its kinda always been that way.

First party software being the star of the show on a Nintendo platform kinda goes without saying, yeah.

But claiming the audience is "only" buying first party software and "ignoring third party games that are not Just Dance" and there there is "no money to be made" for third parties is simply false.

I mean, if any of that was true, we wouldn't be heading into the Switch's 4th year on the market with plenty of third party software in the pipeline like Monster Hunter Rise, Bravely Default II, Apex Legends, Rune Factory 5, Shin Megami Tensei V, Subnautica, Monster Hunter Stories 2, a new RE according to the guy who leaked Monster Hunter, etc. 

It may not have many AAA multiplats, but there's more to third party support than just Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed. By this point Switch has demonstrated it can do just fine without most of the big AAA fare.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 28 January 2021