New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates"
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Wouldn't have expected anything else. The two types of people I've mostly seen buying the Switch 2 are those who are really into Mario Kart and those who are into Pokemon, for the extra frame rate.
Neither of these groups is known for buying 3rd party games - at least not the ones I know.
There's a high proportion of those two groups that plays third party on PC or even a steam deck. The Switch is just the current Nintendo machine.
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"Am I charging too much? No, it's the customers who are wrong!"
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Wouldn't have expected anything else. The two types of people I've mostly seen buying the Switch 2 are those who are really into Mario Kart and those who are into Pokemon, for the extra frame rate.
Neither of these groups is known for buying 3rd party games - at least not the ones I know.
Yup!
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ď¸ I'm only here (having a Switch 2) for the frame rate bump (which I thought I'd get from buying the Switch 2019, or the Switch OLED), as well as the GameCube games and future Mario and Zelda games. Nothing else. -
"Am I charging too much? No, it's the customers who are wrong!"
I went to my local shopâs website. The first game listed is Split Fiction for $70. The game doesnât even have a cartridge. Itâs literally a download code in the box. The PS5/Xbox versions are $65 and are on physical disc.
Who in their right mind is buying this? $70 for a Hogwartâs Legacy game key card? PS5 is $50 new. PS4 is $30.
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Give me OLED or give me death.
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I went to my local shopâs website. The first game listed is Split Fiction for $70. The game doesnât even have a cartridge. Itâs literally a download code in the box. The PS5/Xbox versions are $65 and are on physical disc.
Who in their right mind is buying this? $70 for a Hogwartâs Legacy game key card? PS5 is $50 new. PS4 is $30.
Who in their right mind is buying this?
People who don't want to spend $500 on a PS5 to save $20 on a game.
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Not surprising considering that most 3rd party games are:
- Ports of old games so anyone who has a PS5/Xbox/PC can get them for cheaper.
- Overpriced ports as well, and in a system that is already rather expensive.
- Game Key Cards which won't appeal to collectors who could still buy them despite #1 and #2.
They should have accounted for old games in their estimates though.
