So GTA V never came to the Switch...

[Jumpin]

Zippy6 said:

KLAMarine said:

What were prior years like?

Jumpin said:

I find those numbers a little suspicious. The volume of total retail software sold on Switch is 994 million—around. Approximately 400.52 million of those are developed by Nintendo. And I just don’t buy that Xbox Series X/S and PS5 are outselling Switch by that much in third party sales. Particularly when third party sales have only increased in volume since the Switch launch.

I’d like to see a breakdowns of their numbers to see how they managed to get such wild looking numbers. Are they sampling in specific markets? Only specific companies that might not have that much software on the Switch? What’s going on here?

Yes after looking into the fiscal year info from Sony and Nintendo I don't see how MS figures add up for 2021. My guess is that this figure is not actually for 2021 only but is in fact adding together lifetime 3rd party sales for PS4+PS5 vs XBO+XS vs Switch as of the end of 2021 (or FY 2021?).

The chart shows PlayStation selling over triple the 3rd party software of Nintendo but in 2021 it was actually around double not triple.

That makes a lot more sense. Thanks for the data by the way, that helps a lot (you didn’t have to do that, although I do appreciate it! I had a search for data and was less successful than you—although, I focused on trying to find Xbox). So basically from the time of the Switch inception until 2021 rather than just 2021. Switch was definitely first party heavy early on thanks to the killer apps. Good at firing up the hardware demand, but probably not the most positive for third parties to be going up against. But it also shows that perhaps the data was a little early on the Switch to be considering it completely unviable. But, I do think GTA5 has more hurdles for the Switch than other consoles.

Last edited by Jumpin - on 27 March 2023