Kai_Mao said: Let me just say that it’s incredible that Switch reached the 100+ million milestone not only at such a rate but without any of the notable games: |
I think Nintendo is seen as a bit of a different part of the industry than the PC-centric gaming titles that often do well on PS/XB consoles. While those brands are fairly mainstream, the Nintendo brand is the most mainstream in the industry currently, and of all time.
To give some perspective on sales: Madden’s all time top seller (5.77m combined on all platforms) would only rank 20th on Switch’s top selling games list. Battlefield’s all time best seller (17m combined on all platforms) would hit 8th on the Switch, and even Call of Duty Black Ops - the alltime best selling CoD game (30.72m combined from all releases and platforms) would be a distant third on Switch, and probably 5th by sometime next year when Breath of the Wild and Smash Bros Ultimate surpass it.
As well, those games tend not to sell very well on Nintendo platforms (as I said above, Nintendo is kind of a different part of the industry), and have never been system sellers for Nintendo. There are some GTA games on Switch: remasters of GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas. I’m not sure how well a new GTA game would impact Switch sales (or its successor). Rockstar North (previously known as DMA) used to be an exclusive developer for Nintendo until the N64 era. There was some bad blood there because of the toxic relations with third parties in the Yamauchi era—I’m not sure that remains. There was a time when GTA could have been a Nintendo exclusive franchise.
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