Famitsu Sales: Week 41, 2024 (Oct 07 - Oct 13)

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Kyuu said:

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That's a self-fulfilling prophecy though; if you don't release your big games on Nintendo, people who like those games will have no choice but to look elsewhere.

You'd still be selling more if you cultivated an audience on the market leader.

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My main point here is that having a Switch version released simultaneously with the other versions is bound to hurt the sales of the other versions (so... it adds but also subtracts). A lot of Switch players who like these sort of games own a second platform and may favor Switch's portability for multiplats.

If Switch/Switch 2 starts having every major game from here on out released on it day 1, it'll slowly "convert" Playstation players (PC is converting some too). So you're not just "adding" sales. Overall it'll be a net addition, but not by the huge margins that make a notable difference as far as Japan vs the world.

There is and will be overlap in userbases, yes. 

But when one userbase is multiple times the size, there's still significant opportunity for growth. Obviously it's not realistic for every AAA Japanese game to be made for Switch, but they could definitely do better, especially once the successor arrives and decreases the power gap.