Switch Is Attracting A Large amount of Non-Console owners, Research Suggests: 25% of Owners Have No other console

[Mr Puggsly]

curl-6 said:

Mr Puggsly said:

A lot of the 3rd party games you mentioned are Japanese and Switch is certainly the platform they generally should focus on.

Switch has done well with F2P stuff, so Apex Legends getting a port is not that surprising.

I think multiple things can be true at the same time. A lot of major 3rd party games don't come to Switch because they can't succeed there for various reasons. A lot of smaller 3rd party games definitely do great on Switch, maybe even some of their best sales. While many Japanese games rely on Switch given its very popular there.

Personally I'd like to see older AAA games keep coming to Switch as it handles them really well. But I guess the dilemma is the sales potential just isn't strong enough to encourage it. Also, studios won't bother unless a game is being remastered for multiple platforms.

It does depend on the game and is a case-by-case thing, but at this point Switch has had enough successful third party ventures that they're still coming as it approaches its 4th year, with no sign of stopping. If there really was no money to be made as ryuzaki suggests, we'd be seeing the same scenario as Wii U where by now they would all have long since abandoned the platform.

The Wii U is a different story. It sold so poorly that Nintendo stopped supporting it instantly. Even BotW sold under 2 million. But I suspect Wii U production already ended at that point.

For what its worth I think Just Dance stuck around for a while.