I’ve spent 40h on Hollow Knight and not on a retail game, are you saying that doesn’t matter because it’s a digital game only ?

Thats not an argument. You dont have one and you know it. Nice try trying to slip in 1000 copies of digital shovelware, but you got found.

I need receipts. Octopath has broken 1 million, Skyrim has broken 1 million. Almost 20 million sold and only 2 third party games breaking a million is not an indicator that games universally sell well on Switch. I'll give you Nintendo games, no doubt, but third parties are high and dry for the most part. IMO, it's not getting every third party title because it doesn't make sense when you account for opportunity costs of money and development man-hours. It's going to get some third party games that sell well, and some that don't. The market will correct and stop making products that don't sell.

The bigger third party titles are missing. And the ones selling, are helped by less competition on the system.

I don't see how that is the case.

You don't need to sell a million to be successful. It all depends on development costs of the game and how much needs to be sold to break even. Many indies on Switch were considered a massive success at only 250-400k. Capcom considered Ultra Street Fighter II's 400k sales to be a hit. 

Some people are not understanding that when you complain about the digital only being counted for the 1k titles, you are not saying Rocket League doesn't count, but that more than 90% of the listed titles are pointless. Unless we want to see an average attach ratio for games and get the 100M sold SW for 1K titles would make 100k average per games on 20M userbase so the attach ratio would be 0,5%

I bet they wouldn't like you to say the platform is bad because on average the attach ratio is 0,5% I'm pretty sure they would disqualify those digital games very fast.

They're irrelevant!?

Are they not games if they're digital? Was there not an exchange of money during the purchase of these digital games? If they're not games, what the hell have I been playing all this time!?

Not gonna bring up the comparatively low Switch userbase?

Holy crap. Something of actual substance and not just fanwanking. Well said. It's all about perception.

Whereas I would look at data like Nintendo publishing less than 10% of retail software but having over 70% percent of software sales and say that Switch owners are not picking up hardly any 3rd party retail software (especially taking out the exclusives like Mario + Rabbids) other people can see those same horribly disproportionate numbers and say in general third part software is "selling well".