ryuzaki57 said:
Nautilus said:
Little about the rest?Really?Have you been knowlingly ignoring all the success stories of third party games on the Switch?Both from big publishers and indies?
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Can you give me examples and figures for "all the success stories" on Switch from big 3rd party publishers?
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You are a writer and you are not familiar with them?Makes me wonder if you have some sort of bias towards Nintendo.Hmmmmmmm....
Anyway, here is a previous post I wrote:
"Skyrim probably already passed 1 million units sold.Bomberman R too, and if it didnt, its close enough.Other than that, Bethesda has said time and time again that they were really satisfied with Skyrim and Doom sales on the Switch, and Wolf II probably wont be much different in terms of success.Not only that, but they also said that they have more games in store for the system.EA was also really satisfied with FIFA 2018 sales(if we believe VGC numbers, its also getting close to 1 million, if its not there already), so satisfied that they are bringing FIFA 19 over too.Then there is NBA 2K series which while I dont exactly remember them saying anything, they are bring NBA 2K19 so I guess the first game was deemed profitable.And I mean, 1 million is a big number however you see it, and considering the Switch smaller install base, I cant see it not being considered a success.Its just that we dont have many examples of big AAA games on the Switch, but that will probably be fixed over time."
As for other success stories, there is the first Overcooked which sold 500k some months ago.Hollow Knight that just announced that it sold 250k in two weeks.Blossom Tales that sold 10 times, if Im not mistaken, more in the Switch compared to all other versions combined, Gold Story which was a big success according to the developers, though I dont remember if they have given an exact number.There is also Image & Form games which sell the most on Nintendo systems.The same with Yatch Club with its game Shovel Knight.Shinen with Fast RMX, and so on.
So yeah, many success stories.Though considering your tendencies towards Nintendo, you will probably say these numbers are too "small" to be considered a success, and they are mostly just indies and not big games and so on.Im not denying that Nintendo games do the heavy lifting in terms of software, Im just contesting the absurd claim that gamers that own a Switch care for little else other than Nintendo developed games.As the number of Switch sold increases, so will the software, both first party and third party.But even then, considering the install base and the numbers, many developers are already going out of their way to say that they are extremely happy with the performance of their games on the system.So if those are not success stories, I dont know what they are.