Yes that could also be effecting the sales, the COD and FIFA players of the other consoles will rarely buy games like that.

You can't put down Dragon's Dogma because it's the best game ever. There's your reason.

I suppose the game's issues may be well known among hobbyist gamers like us, but what percentage of buyers are likely to be forum-going enthusiasts of our ilk? It's possible most of the people picking it up for Switch where totally unaware this version was borked.

In a world where we have excellent ports like Yooka Laylee, Outlast II, Warframe, Paladins, Rocket League, Hellblade, the N.Sane Trilogy, and Crash Team Racing, there's really no good reason for a relatively simple game like this to be so wonky. They should have held it back til it was in better shape if necessary.

One thing I would say about that list of games you put, all of those baring Yooka had a proper studio behind it, unlike the crowd funded Bloodstained games... even saying that, yooka pretty quickly had the veterans at Team17 helping them bring the game to all the different platforms.

On topic though - I'm not really surprised, when you look at the numbers of consoles sold and see things like the X1 having a larger number sold than Switch honestly... I would think a great many of those systems are console number 2 to a Switch or are sitting on a pawn shop shelf, considering the system is selling 50k units per week globally, I would think that there is close to 50k people per week who own the system but are part of the 200k who buy a Switch or PS4, as such that system is probably more on a decline of actual active player base rather than an increase.

I didn't pick up a copy just yet based partially on having a ton of games to play through on Switch but also had read about the tech issues on the other platforms the week prior to launch and feared that the Switch port would have suffered a bit the same, I'm sure they'll get their act together and patch the major issues, even if it requires a bit more cash, they have a stream of income coming in now that should be able to fund patches to fix stuff, especially on the system where the majority of that cash is coming from.

That's because the Switch has no other games.

I wonder if that is still an argument lol.

Can't wait to get this one day!

The Switch is my indie king. It doesn't feel the same to play Indie games on the big boi consoles.

Ah, I remember that one.  Whenever a Switch game had good sales, "well, there's not really anything else to play on it". Thankfully I haven't heard it in a while, at least not on VGChartz. Besides...

https://gonintendo.com/stories/339625-switch-currently-has-over-2-400-games-available-to-download

Yep, only 2400 other games on the system, no wonder those poor starved Switch owners are buying Bloodstained, LMAO.