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

[DonFerrari]

Kai_Mao said:

DonFerrari said:

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?

The main thing preventing those games to come or not to Switch 2 would be how much cuts would be necessary versus the regular version. If they can make a quick and cheap port they will most likely do, otherwise only for games that they expect to sell a lot (and that isn't that common unfortunately). But considering Switch 2 is coming mid gen for the other consoles it is possible that it will receive a good amount of titles since devs will expect the system to do similar as good as Switch.