Yeah this article was pretty dumb and written with a clear bias. Nintendo hasn't had much AAA third party support since they heyday of the SNES (though Gamecube did have a decent amount). Since the Wii, third parties have chosen to just go after the hyper-realistic graphics crowd while Nintendo has chosen to go with more unique, innovative, and less expensive hardware design. It's not like suddenly Nintendo won't get AAA third party support anymore, cuz that event literally took place 25 years ago!

There is no growing third party problem with the Switch, it's the same situation Nintendo has been in for essentially the past 25 years. Switch is getting more large third party support with every passing year, as it continues to dominate the market and blow everything else away. Switch will continue to sell very well because it's got a unique hardware design that appeals to people, it's got the top notch first party Nintendo games that everyone wants to play, and it's the best way to play indies - those are the big three selling points and none of that is changing. If anything AAA 3rd party support is increasing on the Switch, not becoming a problem.

So you come for the VGChartz centrefolds, not me I'm only here for the articles, since while I appreciate Trucks enthusiasm 6 VGChartz playmate of the month entries in a row is a bit much.

Why make a thread about it then?, the article itself had plenty of replies that addressed the article and it's shortcomings including yours and while I agree with your overall view and find fault in authors reasonings I noticed the reply was done in a very personalised manner and here we have GoOnKid starting off by saying" your article was biased "as if that's a valid form of critique and couldn't be seen as an attack on someone's integrity.

I'm getting the oled switch. Can someone recommend the top 5 games I must purchase first, excluding botw.

Apparently 1st Party sales really do account for 80% of Switch software sales. p20

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2021/210506_4e.pdf

That is not a healthy ratio to say the least.

40% of digital sales are only digital games, add-ons, and NSO, this 40% have digital-only games and these games don't count of total of software sales( Nintendo counts only package sales and theirs digital versions)

The percentage of thirds party games with the package and digital version is 20%, Among Us, have only digital version and sells gangbusters it's not in this count, one example. Golf Story, Kamiko and go on. 

The great third-party support came for indies developers( digital-only, the majority). The rest only punctual releases and late port.  And AA and A Japanese now are improving( and you can look on Media create posts). 

Well, I thought it wasn't necessary to repeat all the shortcomings so by saying "your article was biased" I thought I'd just summarize what everyone else had already said. But I can see your point, that sentence wasn't needed, I admit.

The thing is, when they report that " X 3rd party games sold over a million" they don't mean actual 3rd party games in general but games they publish themselves, that's already a huge difference.

Actually here for the kitten cuddling contest that the staff throw on a bi-weekly basis with 6 figure winning cash prizes.

What types of games do you like?