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

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Mr Puggsly said:

curl-6 said:

Well yeah, that's kinda the point, Wii U was a different story; third parties couldn't find success on it, so after the first year they bailed. With the Switch, it's still getting plenty of third party games in its fourth year, which proves ryuzaki's point wrong about there being no money to be made and only Just Dance and Nintendo games selling.

Well the OG Wii sold ~100 million, had plenty of 3rd party sipport, but was weak support considering the audience size.

The Wii U had the opposite problem. Low sales and that naturally meant little support. Had it sold better it would have received more ports.

Compared to those two though, Switch support is pretty strong. The quality of the content is arguably the best, unless you really like SNES games.

But people aren't comparing Switch's 3rd party support to past Nintendo consoles. They are comparing it to Xbox and Playstation. Which isn't quite fair for some obvious reasons.

As you say though, that's hardly an apples to apples comparison. And ryuzaki's claim wasn't that third parties sold less on Switch than Xbox and Playstation, it was that there "no money to be made" for third parties and that only Nintendo games and Just Dance sell on it, which is factually, demonstrably incorrect.