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Kai_Mao on 30 January 2024
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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.

I haven't read the whole thread, but I feel that some of the assumptions based on the stats is a bit misleading. I'm not saying that SW consumers bought more 3rd party games than you think, I think that we also have to take into consideration that a majority of the AAA didn't come to Switch. Games like COD, GTAV, Madden, etc., have not come to Switch. And even if they finally do, like The Witcher 3, Bioshock, Nier Automata, Persona 5, etc., you have to take into consideration of how long it took to get those games from the time they initially released on PS4/Xbone/PC/etc. While these games were long requested, they've been in other consoles for years before and are at cheaper prices by then time they release on Switch. If they had released maybe a few months after they initially released on other consoles then maybe it would've been a fair comparison. But that's not realistic since the Switch released in 2017 and wasn't a proven console by the time games like Persona 5, Nier Automata, The Witcher 3, etc. were on store shelves. As we've seen with games like FIFA, NBA 2K, Atelier Ryza, etc., the Switch versions have done reasonably well when launched at the same time and date alongside the Xbox and PS versions.

If we go by the numbers and your understanding of what third parties think, do you think that we may not see as much third party games come to Switch 2? You think that games like Street Fighter VI, Tales of Arise, Tekken 8, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Resident Evil, Persona 3 Reload, etc. would not do well on Switch 2?

Last edited by Kai_Mao - on 30 January 2024