| Shadow1980 said: You sure? It says "Proportion of first-party software sales to total dedicated video game platform software sales" without specifying if it was revenue or units. In either case, even if it is revenue, it does show how dependent Nintendo is on their own first-party output. Of course, that's different than saying "People buy Nintendo systems to play Nintendo games." While that phrase is reductionist, the fact that very few third-party games do well on Nintendo systems is telling. Most Switch owners probably do have at least one or two third-party games (I have a copy of Octopath Traveler, and I downloaded Blaster Master Zero when I got the system at launch), but first-party games are clearly the main event. |
Yeah, that's why they give the exchange rate underneath because they are talking about money not units. If it were units and Nintendo were getting 80% that would mean Nintendo would have sold 906m first party games on Switch from the 1130m total lol.
But yeah I think my way of viewing the situation in general is.
Nintendo: First party is the main event, Third Party is a nice extra.
PlayStation/Xbox: Third party is the main event, First Party is a nice extra.
How many times does a Switch gamer say their most anticipated game is a third party title? Or their favourite Switch game of the previous year was third party? Doesn't really happen.
Last edited by Zippy6 - on 15 January 2024
