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Forums - Sales Discussion - Top 10 best-selling third party games for Switch in the USA LTD (NPD, revenue-based ranking)

 

Best Switch game?

Breath of the Wild 20 58.82%
 
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 0 0%
 
Splatoon 2 1 2.94%
 
Super Mario Odyssey 5 14.71%
 
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 3 8.82%
 
Kirby Star Allies 0 0%
 
Super Mario Party 1 2.94%
 
Pokémon: Let's Go, Evee/Pikachu! 0 0%
 
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 3 8.82%
 
Yoshi's Crafted World 1 2.94%
 
Total:34
Farsala on 20 June 2019

Nintendo and former Sony mascots leading the top 2. Making it a bit hard to control for future third party games, as both Mario collaborations and Crash are a bit unlikely.

Just Dance is no surprise as it has always been quite popular on Nintendo consoles.

That basically leaves Diablo 3 as the biggest winner, I hope Blizzard is cooking up a sequel at some point to release for all consoles simultaneously.



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Chrkeller on 20 June 2019

"While Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle was developed and published by Ubisoft, it should go without saying that the Mario IP is pulling the weight."

Certainly Mario being in the game helps sales, but I think Rabbids is more than that. I was rather surprised at how good the game is. Excellent game, very fun. I would buy a sequel.



HoloDust on 20 June 2019
SKMBlake said:
couchmonkey said:

I wonder why we don’t get Madden or NHL.

Because "EA Sports, it's in the game, but ain't on the Switch"

NHL is not even on PC for some time now - which is bummer, I occasionally still play team sports games, and always go with basketball and hockey.



zorg1000 on 20 June 2019
Mar1217 said:
.... oh yeah, it's US only. I was wondering why I couldn't see Octopath Traveler in this chart, wait scratch it.

Why isn't Octopath Traveler in this chart ?! It sold more than 1.5M copies a long time ago worldwide and I'm pretty sure the US had the biggest piece of the pie there.

Published by Nintendo in the US.



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KrspaceT on 20 June 2019
Mar1217 said:
.... oh yeah, it's US only. I was wondering why I couldn't see Octopath Traveler in this chart, wait scratch it.

Why isn't Octopath Traveler in this chart ?! It sold more than 1.5M copies a long time ago worldwide and I'm pretty sure the US had the biggest piece of the pie there.

It's very possible Japan contributed well to it's sales to a point it didn't pop up for this list. 



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zorg1000 on 20 June 2019
Mar1217 said:
zorg1000 said:

Published by Nintendo in the US.

Chart is about 3rd party games, doesn't matter if it's published by Ninty or not. It certainly not first party, nor is it 2nd party. It is on PC now too.

Doesnt matter, they published it so it is not counted as a 3rd party title.



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curl-6 on 21 June 2019
thismeintiel said:

While I agree that 3rd party releases won't just instantly dry up because of the new consoles, how does this list prove it? We have no actual number of units sold nor any comparison to how well they did when put against PS4/XBO sales. It definitely doesn't have Nintendo ”leading the pack of third party game sales."

You're misunderstanding him; he's saying that even though it was made and published by Ubisoft, a Mario game is #1, so Nintendo is "leading the pack of third party game sales" on their own system.

And these games don't need to sell as well as the PS4 versions to still be profitable. According to VGC, Doom sold 430k physically worldwide on Switch, but that was enough for Bethesda to bring over Doom Eternal.



Nautilus on 21 June 2019

Well, Kingdom Battle is not a third party game, its actually a second party, but other than that, happy to see this level of success for third party companies.



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

Nautilus on 21 June 2019
Chrkeller said:
"While Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle was developed and published by Ubisoft, it should go without saying that the Mario IP is pulling the weight."

Certainly Mario being in the game helps sales, but I think Rabbids is more than that. I was rather surprised at how good the game is. Excellent game, very fun. I would buy a sequel.

Oh yeah.This is a case of Nintendo brand image doing the hard work initially, but after the game launched, the game managed to stand up on its own.

If a sequel is produced, the Mario IP isnt the only thing that I will be looking foward to the game aand making me excited for it.



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

zorg1000 on 21 June 2019
Nautilus said:
Well, Kingdom Battle is not a third party game, its actually a second party, but other than that, happy to see this level of success for third party companies.

NPD determines these things based on who publishes the game. Kingdom Battle is published by Ubisoft so it's considered 3rd party.



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