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JSG87 said:
Symbios63 said:

Just under 70%, yes.

I would add that games are considered published by Nintendo when they are in most of the world (Pokken, which is published by Nintendo everywhere except Japan is considered published by Nintendo whereas Mario + Rabbids which is published by Nintendo only in Japan is not...).

 

Ah okay. It was just after the latest earnings report I saw a few people claim that 3Rd party support account for almost 85% of Nintendos sales for the last fiscal year and I assumed it was including ds and wii u. So seems I was correct lol.

Are digital sales included in that 85%? Third party sales should be a lot higher digitally, due to the popularity of the numerous indie games.



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Flilix said:
JSG87 said:

 

Ah okay. It was just after the latest earnings report I saw a few people claim that 3Rd party support account for almost 85% of Nintendos sales for the last fiscal year and I assumed it was including ds and wii u. So seems I was correct lol.

Are digital sales included in that 85%? Third party sales should be a lot higher digitally, due to the popularity of the numerous indie games.

 

Oh no sorry. I meant they were saying that 1St patty games accounted for 85% of sales. I think that's wrong though and as you said including digital the % should be screwed even more away from 1St party.



JSG87 said:
Flilix said:

Are digital sales included in that 85%? Third party sales should be a lot higher digitally, due to the popularity of the numerous indie games.

 

Oh no sorry. I meant they were saying that 1St patty games accounted for 85% of sales. I think that's wrong though and as you said including digital the % should be screwed even more away from 1St party.

I think 85% is true in Japan for physical games (based on Media Create numbers). But yeah, not worldwide (at least based on VGC data) and definitely not if digital sales are included.



Update March 17th 2018 :

4 new games in the list : Kirby !! (entering at #18), Attack on Titan 2 (entering at #82), Winning Post 8 2018 (entering at #105), Gal Gun 2 (entering at #107) . Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada and Voez were pushed out of top 100.

Weekly Top sellers were : 1) Kirby!! ; 2) Mario Kart 8 ; 3) Super Mario Odyssey

Number of 100k sellers : 46 (+1)
Number of 200k sellers : 34 (+2)
Number of 500k sellers : 16
Number of 1M sellers : 8
Number of 2M sellers : 4
Number of 5M sellers : 3



Pretty long list for just one year already



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Bofferbrauer2 said:
Pretty long list for just one year already

Pretty good indeed ! WiiU has 169 games tracked by VGC, we are almost there already.

 

A few more games : 

04/24/18 :

04/26/18 :

04/27/18 :

05/01/18

05/04/18

05/15/18

05/17/18



Top retail publishers in total sales (VGC, 03/17/18) :

1 (-) Nintendo : 35.15M (+0.84) ; 11 games (+1) ; (average = 3.19M/game) ; 70.10%
2 (-) Ubisoft : 3.28M (+0.03) ; 5 games ; (average = 0.66M/game) ; 6.54%
3 (-) Warner Bros : 1.71M (+0.03) ; 6 games ; (average = 0.285M/game) ; 3.41%
4 (-) Bethesda : 1.10M (+0.03) ; 2 games ; (average = 0.55M/game) ; 2.19%
5 (-) Sega : 1.01M (+0.02) ; 3 games ; (average = 0.34M/game) ; 2.01%
6 (-) Capcom : 0.85M (+0.00) ; 3 games ; (average = 0.28M/game) ; 1.70%
7 (-) EA : 0.76 M (+0.01) ; 1 game ; (average= 0.76M/game) ; 1.52%
8 (-) Konami : 0.73M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.73M/game) ; 1.46%
9 (-) Koei Tecmo : 0.56M (+0.02) ; 12 games (+2) ; (average = 0.05M/game) ; 1.12%
10 (-) Bandai Namco : 0.52M (+0.02) ; 4 games ; (average = 0.13M/game) ; 1.04%
11 (-) 2K : 0.50M (+0.01) ; 2 games ; (average = 0.25M/game) ; 1.00%
-- (-) Nicalis : 0.50M (+0.02) ; 6 games ; (average = 0.08M/game) ; 1.00%
13 (-) Square Enix : 0.48M (+0.02) ; 7 games ; (average = 0.07M/game) ; 0.96%
14 (-) Telltale : 0.43M (+0.00) ; 2 games ; (average = 0.215M/game) ; 0.86%
15 (-) NIS : 0.37M (+0.00) ; 4 games ; (average = 0.09M/game) ; 0.74%
16 (-) Rockstar : 0.24M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.24M/game) ; 0.48%
17 (-) Activision : 0.17M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.17M/game) ; 0.34%
-- (-) Marvelous : 0.17M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.17M/game) ; 0.34%
19 (+1) Microids : 0.15M (+0.01) ; 3 games ; (average = 0.05M/game) ; 0.30%
20 (-1) Game Mill : 0.14M (+0.00) ; 2 games ; (average = 0.07M/game) ; 0.28%
21 (-) Gametrust : 0.12M (+0.01) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.12M/game) ; 0.24%
22 (-) Maximum Games : 0.10M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.10M/game) ; 0.20%
23 (-) Greybox : 0.09M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.09M/game) ; 0.18%
-- (-) Focus Interactive : 0.09M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.09M/game) ; 0.18%
-- (+1) Psyonix : 0.09M (+0.01) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.09M/game) ; 0.18%
26 (-1) MLB AM : 0.08M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.08M/game) ; 0.16%
-- (+1) BadLand Games : 0.08M (+0.01) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.08M/game) ; 0.16%
28 (-1) Outright Games : 0.07M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.07M/game) ; 0.14%
-- (-1) Milestones : 0.07M (+0.00) ; 2 games ; (average = 0.035M/game) ; 0.14%
30 (-) Nippon Columbia : 0.06M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.06M/game) ; 0.12%
-- (-) Night Hawk : 0.06M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.06M/game) ; 0.12%
-- (+2) 505 Games : 0.06M (+0.01) ; 2 games ; (average = 0.03M/game) ; 0.12%
33 (-1) Rising Star Games : 0.05M (+0.00) ; 3 games ; (average = 0.02M/game) ; 0.10%
-- (-1) Mastiff : 0.05M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.05M/game) ; 0.10%
35 (-1) Alliance Digital Media : 0.04M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.04M/game) ; 0.08%
-- (-1) THQ Nordic : 0.04M (+0.00) ; 2 games ; (average = 0.02M/game) ; 0.08%
-- (-) System3 : 0.04M (+0.00) ; 2 games ; (average = 0.02M/game) ; 0.08%
38 (-) Ravenscourt : 0.03M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.03M/game) ; 0.06%
-- (-) Team 17 : 0.03M (+0.01) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.03M/game) ; 0.06%
40 (-) Dispatch Games : 0.01M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.01M/game) ; 0.02%
-- (-) Megagames : 0.01M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.01M/game) ; 0.02%
42 (-) Flyhigh Works : 0.00M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.00M/game) ; 0.00%
-- (-) DMM Games : 0.00M (+0.00) ; 1 game ; (average = 0.00M/game) ; 0.00%
-- (N) PQube : 0.00M (N) ; 1 game (+1) ; (average = 0.00M/game) ; 0.00%

On average, including Nintendo :

- A publisher has sold 1.14M games on Switch.
- A game has sold 0.47M on Switch.

On average, excluding Nintendo :

- A publisher has sold 0.35M games on Switch.
- A game has sold 0.16M on Switch.



Pretty much as expected. Nintendo makes up 70% of all software sales for the Switch. People get a Switch to play Nintendo games, not third-party games.



Megiddo said:
Pretty much as expected. Nintendo makes up 70% of all software sales for the Switch. People get a Switch to play Nintendo games, not third-party games.

While I believe it is quite obvious that Nintendo's content drives their consoles. I do want to point out that factoring in digital games would skew that number below 70%. We already have a few digital only games that have crossed the one million mark and there are a number of other titles listed here that we know have sold more when factoring in digital sales.



What are the prices of the million+ selling digital only games for the Switch?