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

[Mnementh]

DonFerrari said:

Kai_Mao said:

I buy third parties games on Switch. After all, more consumer support means more third party games on Switch right?/s
That's why I got Ultra Street Fighter II and Samurai Shodown on Switch. In hopes that Street Fighter VI and King of Fighters XV will come over on Switch one day./s
In all seriousness, I don't think the stigma of Nintendo users only buying Nintendo games on Nintendo systems will necessarily go away, but I think the idea of that is beyond odd at this point. Over a billion units of software sold on Switch. Are you saying that >80% of that software are Nintendo games? I don't think that's the case.
If there are multiplatform games that I am interested in and appear to run well on Switch, I usually get it on Switch. I usually play more on my Switch than even on my PS5. Sure, power is nice. Still, the Switch is that convenient for me as a gamer that I can play it anywhere and bring it on trips with me. I played MLB the Show on PS4, great experience. But once the series came to Switch, I bought it on Switch because I can play quick 3 inning games without having to turn on the TV.

If you read through the thread you'll see that it is more or less 50% of all SW sold on Switch is third party while for PS it is about 85%. So if we were to go from current Switch SW sales (1B) and PS4 LTD (close to 2B) you would have something like 500k for Switch and 1.7B for PS4 of third party SW or something like 3x more. So looking both on % or total you would see that the switch userbase is much less likely to buy 3rd party SW than PS userbase.

As I already explained in my post: if all the top selling games for the PS4 list I grabbed aren't releasing on Switch then the result is more than expected. An unreleased game cannot sell. Removing all games unreleased on Nintendo platforms from the PS-bestseller list it results in a list heavily dominated by first party. As these best-selling games account for a lot of the overall sales this clearly makes the difference. If we look at games that actually released on Switch like Minecraft, the numbers aren't that different anymore. So games aren't releasing on Nintendo because the legend says third party doesn't sell, and because top selling games aren't released the numbers feed back into the legend.