The Beautiful, Yet So BOLD Prediction! The Nintendo Switch... 200Mil!

[Bofferbrauer2]

Mnementh said:

DitchPlaya said:

The Switch selling well is great and all but are we forgetting the Wii? For four years straight it trounced the competition but what did it have to show for itself? If you think I am simply talking about the failure of the Wii U or the fact that it's sales fell of a cliff in the fifth year then you'd be wrong. Off course there is still the chance that it may happen, nobody ever saw it so with the Wii because it was supposed to change gaming.

Instead I am talking about the fact that a Nintendo platform selling is only good for Nintendo. Third-party sales are still nowhere to be seen. Yes there are some token titles thrown at the system, usually beyond compromise, and yes the fanbase will eat them up. But ultimate third-party has little presence on the system and that means that the told number of units sold will remain meaningless. If we go by that logic, we can not only add up Sony + MS sales, but also the base console sales too! The base PS4 is still leaps and bounds more powerful than the Switch and the ports that the Sony system will get at least are competitive (I mean that both literally too, check out Apex Legends if you don't believe me).

Aren't we over that already many times? Yes, big western AAA 3rd-party is not present, but japanese, AA-games and indies are very well present. And the data suggest, that they sell as well and better than on other platforms. For japanese game devs especially, if they ignore Switch at this point they could commit suicide as well.

The 3rd-party output for this year includes: Monster Hunter Rise, Disgaea 6 (which isn't releasing on PS, because the sales aren't there on that platform), Ys IX, Monster Hunter Stories and already got Bravely Default 2 and Story of Seasons. And alongside a lot of smaller titles. So declaring the absence of 3rd-parties seems kinda obsolete. Yes, no COD and Battlefield, but that didn't stop the Switch from selling so far.

Just to add to this, even the claim that no western AAA titles are "nowhere to be seen" is bullshit. Wolfenstein, Doom, Diablo, Witcher 3 Wild Hunt, Crysis remastered, Metro 2033 and Last Night, Mortal Kombat 11, Borderlands, Civilization, Assassin's Creed, all those eSport titles... there are tons of western AAA titles on the Switch.

Really, the only things that are really missing are CoD, Battlefield and non-legacy versions of EA sports titles. For the rest, the Switch has all the big names on it.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 21 March 2021