Their absence speaks volumes. Has any third party Switch game sold 10 million only on Switch? GTA? Hogwarts? The Witcher? Assassins Creed? Elder Scrolls?
You never defined what constitutes as a success so it’s weird to bring up 10 million being the threshold.
You could’ve made a far more compelling argument if you had been focused on western third party developers but, again, Ubisoft is right there. Still reporting healthy success on the platform with putting new IPs like Immortals: Fenyx Rising on there. Still making games that are dedicated to the switch architecture like Prince of Persia. Still in heavy collaboration with Nintendo with the Mario & Rabbids game that released last year.
Do the existence of these games immediately devalue the successes other, third party publishers have on the platform? Do they have to be multi-million dollar sellers? Maybe there’s some correlation on the budget of games like that in relation to how they sell, for example? Or consider the fact that 85% of Nintendo’s digital revenue is exclusively nintendo products. Yes, it’s a tough market to compete in so the returns on publishing a game there are noticeably lower than some random Assassin’s Creed game releasing on multiple other platforms.
For what it’s worth, as of 2020 The Witcher 3 did do 700k. I’d imagine it’s in the upwards of a million / 2 million in four years time.
Well wheres all the Playstation games coming to Xbox? If its the industry we should be seeing Destruction All Stars and Returnal on Xbox soon right?
No, they are going to be releasing/have released on PC for now but I would not be surprised to see Switch joints see more smaller PS games. It helps that you have an established relationship with Nintendo prior to releasing your shit on that platofrm, much like MS does.
If they don’t owe their customers anything you shouldn’t buy an Xbox, because we’re not getting the bare minimum.
Well I’m sorry your experience is devalued from this.