Skyrim: open world RPG

Fifa: yearly rehash football title that most Nintendo fans couldn't give a single fuck about + it's missing many features that the other versions have. 

Besides, we haven't gotten sales numbers from Fifa 18, so your argument is moot. Switch is also most popular in North America and Japan and guess what... football (soccer) isn't popular in those countries... which explains the sales. 

Xbox One + PS4 + PC + Xbox 360/PS3 is also a much larger userbase than just the Switch, so that percentage isn't nearly as impressive as you seem to think it is. 

You are trying to catch me on inconsistencies that I have not made, other people have. I actually don't talk about VR at all on this site, so trying to pin me on what other people have said is odd. 

VR is a power seller as soon as it gets the full experiences to support it. Skyrim, like Resident Evil 7, is one such experience. It's not that the PSVR is a "power seller" or sells more than Switch. It's that this is one of the first times PS VR has been attractive to a general audience, with an amazing bundle, including the best selling RPG of all time(not including Pokemon 1st gen), and on top of that it's in the UK. I feel like these are pretty good reasons as to why the game is selling more than the Switch version. Not only is it heavily bundled, but it is a new experience. New. No matter how fresh Skyrim may be on Switch's handheld mode, I don't think that qualifies as being as new as a fully-fledged VR game. 

If I sound like I am making excuses out of sympathy for the Switch, then well ... that is because I kind of am. Well okay, not the excuses part, but the point is that I will admit there is a level of bias giving me such a perspective. Call it wishful thinking. I want the Switch to succeed, but most importantly I want people to be able to have great games on the Switch. To be able to enjoy great experiences on the console that come from companies other than Nintendo. That being said, I feel the viewpoint, even if a bit too optimistic, is supported by the points I made. Even if 3rd party support doesn't effect me(I use a gaming PC for third parties), I want the system to be great for other companies.

I also feel like we've heard these points before. People were shouting doom and gloom when Fate/Extella sold worse on Switch than PS4 and Vita yet Marvelous is still supporting the Switch. I also seem to remember people shouting doom and gloom about the Xenoverse 2 port, and honestly I get it. Looking at the numbers at VGChartz, it says it sold only 100k physical as of September 30th. It debuted at only 24k in Japan(which isn't bad). Yet it passed 400k with digital as of November 9th, meaning that a mere port of an old game sold almost half a million in 1 month and 2.5 weeks. 

The U.K. performance of Skyrim is definitely not great, i'm not going to lie. But Digital + North American sales? It's going to perform very good, I feel. I feel like we'll go through this tango a million times with the Switch. One game underperforms in the charts, people freak out, company releases a statement saying they're pleased, people say the company is just using PR tactics, then they get confused when the company releases another 6 titles for the console.  By the end of the generation, we'll probably look at Skyrim as a good performer with legs especially in the US.

Supporting and cheering for Switch is fine and good. But you don't need to do this by discrediting the sales on a different platform. Because actually it would be less likely to have a big sale of Skyrim due to PSVR (even if bundled... because if PSVR was selling high before Skyrim then it having a bundle that sells good it would be more likely that Skyrim drove the buying than PSVR).

I would like Skyrim to do well. And sure it doing bad in UK doesn't necessarily means it done bad WW. The point is more like, if it is doing bad in UK considering the context then it may do bad WW and expecting high sales may drive to disapointement.

Hm....discrediting sales on a different platform? What? If it came off that way then I apologize, but that's literally the opposite of what I'm doing. It's the other way around, saying the Switch is only doing x compared to platform y is trying to discredit the Switch's sales of that software. The Switch's sales of Skyrim are nowhere near as impressive as VR's sales of Skyrim, the amount of software sales VR is getting is pretty impressive for Skyrim. That, I am not discrediting. I am merely making the point that we've seen this before, where a game charts on Switch and everyone gets into doom and gloom mode.

Also the Skyrim bundle is 50$ more than the regular PS VR bundle, so it's still making Bethesda and Sony a ton of money. It is not like a free game per say. This is why I was confused when you brought in other people's opinions on VR sales, I've never really talked about them before, but I'd say for what it's worth they are certainly impressive. Explaining why they are so high is not trying to downplay them inherently, that's just how you compare sales from two different platforms. 

Yes, we are all very dumb when discussing the only numbers we have instead of supposing other places were so great that the WW would be the opposite.

Funny comment since you and ThisGuyFooks are the one suggesting it did bad because it sold less than the VR version in UK, nobody is saying it did amazing in other places, they are only saying Uk is not representative because it isn't.

Funnier would be you and others on the Fifa18 UK sales saying that it selling 1% of the sales on UK wasn't any issue and that WW it would do much better and end up doing 110k WW (or like 1.6%) and then you guys play dead.

And now that I bring this fact, then you will try and say that Fifa and skyrim are different games (no shit sherlock).

But based on the info we have right now we have Fifa Switch done bad in UK -> bad WW, and what Skyrim Switch have done (that is lower than PSVR, and in this case can't even use any excuse on userbase since PSVR userbase is smaller than Switch). So from what we have it is more likely to supposed based on data that Skyrim haven't done great number WW for Switch.

But the only argument you can use is UK =/= WW without being able to bring any data or fact to help out any argument that Skyrim done great.