With the Switch 2 release date now passed, analysts are discovering what gamers are playing. Third-party Switch 2 launch titles are appealing to buyers less than some publishers had hoped. Owners of the handheld are still gravitating toward Nintendo games and physical cartridges. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Sales-of-third-party-Nintendo-Switch-2-games-fall-flat-as-gamers-prefer-first-party-launch-titles.1039786.0.html
Companies like Capcom & SEGA should know better by this point the difference in markets between people at Nintendo vs people buying stuff on Steam.
It seems they are trying hard to give the same treatment and "effort" to all markets, but this will obviously not work.
They should learn from CD Project Red & Marvelous, which indeed seem to know how to sell their stuff on Switch.
Shot out to Square Enix showing their laziness as always
Disappointing that notebookcheck picked up this article.
If you actually read the article, you might realize it makes no sense.
It would take too long to go through all of the problems, but here are a few:
- some of their sources are "publisher". Who? Did they make a great game or a poor game?
- the article admits that most of the third party games are game key cards, which there has been an online campaign against.
- it conflates physical and digital. Mario kart world in the bundle is considered physical, when it's a download. Game key cards are considered physical, when that's a grey area.
- it only considers physical games
-it only looks at a few regions in the world
- the article admits that all of the third party games so far already existed on other platforms
- most of the third party games so far aren't exciting