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

[DonFerrari]

burninmylight said:

Mnementh said:

Do you expect a late port on a machine that continuously is avoided by 3rd-parties to do the same instantly? Pretty fair releases without asterisks like Minecraft do well on Switch. But many games don't come from the start and others have a lot of asterisks. You should compare games without these asterisks, like Disgaea games, the Mana games, Octopath Traveler (ask how well it did on Xbox) and so on. Monster Hunter Rise did on Switch alone quite well compared to Monster Hunter World. Not the same exactly and geographical distribution was different (which is the much more interesting discussion to have), but overall good. Microsoft has said they will release CoD in the future. This is one of the reasons PS reaches 85% 3rd party (really, that number is made up of only a few game series). If MS does this release without asterisks, same day, we have another data point.

^This. Comparing a years-late port of games like Witcher 3 or obviously watered down ports that advertise it as such right on the box like "Legacy Edition" FIFA is straight-up strawmanning. Compare the Switch to games it got day and date with other platforms like Mortal Kombat 11.

Speaking of, the Switch keeps getting every new MK, every  new NBA 2K, every new MLB The Show, and so on, whereas the Wii U did not. So clearly some big publishers are satisfied with their sales.

NBA and MLB are mandated to be on all platforms from the license holder. And how do you expect a Switch port to not be watered down? Only if they released a watered down version for everyone.