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

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Zippy6 said:

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 so 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.

Gotcha.

Even a roughly 50/50 split in terms of software unit sales for the Switch is absolutely massive for first-party software. Looking at the PS4's split, in FY18-19, it was only like 18% first-party, and the FY after that it was 16%. Sony's first-party games have been more consistently doing very well since at least last generation (the PS4 had six first-party games that sold over 10M copies, and two of those passed the 20M mark), but they are much smaller proportion of overall PS software sales.

Anecdotally, only including physical copies (I do have one downloaded game on my Switch, and I occasionally try out games with GP on Xbox), while only 9.1% of my Switch games are third-party, 42.3% of my PS4/PS5 games and 72.4% of my XBO/XBS games are third-party.