After every quarter we get a number of third-party games, that sold over a million units in that quarter. Iirc in Q3 last year there were 5 and in Q4 9 third-party games, that sokd over a million units. We just never get the names of these games.

Now try to downplay the fact that there are dozens of third-party million sellers on the Switch. "There is no money to be made" is a false statement.

this third-party numbers are only for those who have physical edition. Only digital is more and don't count in this metric. 

Exactly! I remember Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon sold best on the Switch. That is definitely not a family friendly game. The Descenders had on the Switch the biggest launch ever for it's publisher and that game also launched on other consoles. Minecraft sells the best on the Switch for several years now and is most likely over 15mil units sold on Switch. Octopath Traveler and Mario + Rabbids sold over 2mil, Fitness Boxing, Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' fun and Enter the Gungeon sold over a million and Fitness Boxing 2 sold 500k in a much shorter time than it's predecessor, so another guaranteed million seller. From the Capcom leak we know that the Switch versions of Okami and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy were by far the best selling skus. In Ace Attorney's case iirc over 70% of the now 1mil total. Disgaea 6 is in the west now Switch exclusive, I don't think they would have done that if the other games weren't very successful on the Switch. Sakuna of Rice and Ruin sold the best on Switch. Puyo Puyo Tetris and it's sequel sold the best on the Switch.

Here are some third-party games on the Switch that very likely sold over a million on the Switch alone and didn't get an official confirmation that they did so (digital only included):

Super Bomberman R, Dead Cells, Hollow Knight, Terraria, Minecraft Dungeons, Doom (1993), Doom II, Doom 64, Doom (2016), Dark Souls Remastered, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Skyrim, Stardew Valley, FF VII, FF VIII, FF IX, Just Dance 2018, Just Dance 2019, Just Dance 2020, Just Dance 2021, Fifa 18, Fifa 19, Fifa 20, Fifa 21, Overwatch, Diablo 3, Puyo Puyo Tetris, Dragon Quest XI S, Undertale, Ori and the Blind Forest, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Cuphead, Hades, Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town, Rayman Legends: Definitive Edition, Shovel Knight, Mortal Kombat 11, Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers.

I'm sure I missed alot. The point is there's is alot of money to be made for third-party developers on the Switch.

Switch to me is a mix of a few things. It feels to me like someone mixed the era of SNES and Saturn into one system. From the types of newer games, it gets (Octopath Traveler & Daemon X Machina) to the older game ports it gets(tons of old shmups and arcade games plus last-gen, PS2 era, and such). To some of the literal remakes from that era. (Trials of Mana and Panzer Dragoon). It's kinda everything I want in one system. I do like my PS4 a lot and have some of the same stuff but Switch is even more so plus portable.

The switch is also very fun to import games for. Saturn and PC Engine are the two best platforms to import games on since they are not the most popular systems so they are loaded with hidden gems. While Switch is very successful it's still loaded with hidden gems you can import. So for me, this system kinda has it all for me. I don't think a whole lot about the Nintendo IPs themselves but what few I do have interest in have been great.

This, i still don't know why people feel that they have the need for validation, approval and even the consent of others when buying their entertainment products, at least when i was a kid everyone in my region seemed to enjoy the different devices irrespectively of the brand, probably because our fathers always told us that they were luxuries and that we should value what we were given (there were local economic crises every few years), and since we had like 5-10 games at most, we tended to exchange games to try the ones we couldn't  afford to buy and there was also the situation it was preferred to spent a lot of time in Arcades, and when we got older we didn't have problem switching from Nintendo to PS1, PS2 or Xbox, and from PS2 to Xbox360 or from X360 to PS3, and maybe have a sideline gba/wii/ds since they were kinda cheap; the thing that i could observe was that there were a lot of kids that were born with the PS1 and the xbox360 and some of the PS4 ones as their first consoles, that tended to be entitled, bad manered, bad mouthed spoiled brats that always kept saying the classics:

"Nintendo is for babies","Nintendo only does games for kiddies", "Nintendo games are for little girls", "PS is for adults because their games have boobs, sex, violence, drugs, guns, blood, [insert your favorite supposedly adult feature here]", "Call of Duty is the greatest game of all Time","you are a bunch of noobs you should only play CoD because it's the most realistic war game unlike [insert game to look down on here]", "Minecraft is the best game ever made, i only play Minecraft, if you play anything other than Minecraft you are a [insert your favorite insult here]".

With respect to the thread, my brother for example, used to play a lot of Gamecube and Wii, but after that he only played FIFAS occasionaly in whatever PS, Xbox console he could get his hands on mostly borrowed from friends, now that he has a son and the kid is growing he buyed him a switch, and the kid is really invested in the games, he likes kirby, Pokemon, Smash Bros, minecraft, splatoon, lego jurassic world and his father makes the most of it by also playing Zeldas, FIFA and others, since the cousins of my nephew got jealous they also got switches, so yes i guess those kids that weren't even born when the wii was out and their fathers, now count towards a new statistic when accounting for people that weren't console owners.

That is an amazing story.

Agreed, i have three collections of Games: Saturn, Pc Engine and Neo Geo AES. The rest, likewise other system before Switch, I sell all. 

PC engine and Saturn are the hidden gem for shumps old arcades ports. Switch become the third best now. And you can play on vertical is a genius move. 

I also feel like the Switch has a lot of Wii DNA in it too.

The split Joycons with motion controls kinda feel like a wireless Wiimote + Nunchuk. Both launched with an epic crossgen Zelda adventure. Stuff like Ring Fit Adventure and LABO mirror the kind of experimental blue ocean software Nintendo made during the Wii era. Both systems are built around combining new ways to play with easy-to-pick-up-and-play accessibility.

I guess that switch ass everyone initially thought as cheezy actually worked. I can picture a lot of adults who bought the console, non gamers for nostalgia and to have mates over for some fun.

I wonder how much of this is just that, a lightning in a bottle. Like the Wii. When the pandemic eventually recedes, will these people keep buying games or will they return to their former activities and leave the Switch gathering dust?