"Nintendo users only buy Nintendo games on Nintendo systems" How true was this?

[Mnementh]

TeachMeHisty said:

All I can say is, that there is no sufficiently enough prepared data to use to give a definite answer.
However, asking the people here about their peferences is bound to give wrong results, as we are enthusiasts and therefore do not correspond to the average.

My feelings tell me that there is some truth to it though, at least across all games.
I expect certain genres to sell close enough to the competition that these sales can be considered equal
And then I expect there to be genres which sell much worse... not only relative to the install base, but also in absolute numbers.
So yeah.. I believe that this statement is true for some types of games and false for others.
I do also think however, that, barring 1st party games, there are no categories of games that sell better on a Nintendo system than on others.

While I agree with most of your post I have doubts about the underlined. I noticed something strange with the WiiU. While pretty much all 3rd-parties abandoned the system, it got pretty much all the platformers. Be it indies or the ones from Sega (does anyone high profile else do platformers). I am not a platformer guy, never was, but it got me thinking. What if I am a fan of good platforming. Chances are I am not too much into PC, because a controller is much preferable to this kind of game and while a PC can be used with platformers it might be a bit more difficult. On Xbox and PS I can find platformers, enough for casually play some, but not if you are deeply into them. Nintendo's systems also have among the 1st party the masterclass in platforming, between Mario, Kirby and Donkey Kong different kinds are covered as well. But if you are done with these, then you will go on to the 3rd-party offerings. Also the power difference of Nintendos machines doesn't matter as much for platformers.

So I have the suspicion, that for many of these platformers from 3rd-parties WiiU was a very good sales platform and Switch can only be better. I don't have proof, but I would assume that to be the case.

Last edited by Mnementh - on 14 January 2024