Well, looks like next gen didn't kill Switch third party support

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Kakadu18 said:

Alistair said:

Yeap the Switch has terrible third party support. Not as bad as the Wii U maybe, but yeah. Sports games? Nope. Top games every year from Ubisoft (Assassin's Creed? Nope), EA? Mass Effect or Anthem or Jedi Fallen Order? Nope. It's the Nintendo game system.

Out of the 151 games on my Switch 29 are Nintendo first party games.

This is a pretty good way to measure third party support.

For Wii U, I have 14 games and 4 are third party, about 29%.
For the PS4, I have 8 games and 6 are third party, about 75%.
For the Switch, I have 26 games, and 15 are third party, about 58%.

I actually own about the same amount of first party games on my Switch as my Wii U (11 vs. 10 respectively).  The main difference for me between the two systems is third party games.  Third party games are the reason why my Switch library is much bigger than my Wii U library (26 games vs 14 currently).

Of course my PS4 has a higher percentage of third party games compared to either system, but then again, I don't really like very many games on the PS4.  In particular the first party games on the PS4 are not nearly as appealing as the first party games on either the Wii U or Switch (2 vs. 10 vs. 11).  It's not that the third party games on the Switch are bad, so much as the first party games on every Nintendo system are exceptionally good.  But I can tell you that I love my Switch a whole lot more than my Wii U.  Those third party games on the Switch matter a whole lot, to me at least.   On top of that the third party releases this year look better than every previous year, and there are still already released third party games that I still want to buy.

Switch is exactly the type of system I want from Nintendo: great first party games and lots of third party games.  I don't need AAA Western games, because I think almost all of these games suck anyway.  I just need a lot of third party games to come to a Nintendo system.  If the games come, then I will find stuff that I want to play.

Last edited by The_Liquid_Laser - on 21 March 2021