Thunder Force IV by the AGES team... I'd take that on PS4 over God of War!
@YummyHappyPills the Mega Drive collection looks like a port of the Steam collection that's been about for a while.
It's really badly optimised, so Switch is better off without it.
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@YummyHappyPills It's a really tough situation because, on the one hand, conventional wisdom says that Nintendo needs third party if they want a hugely successful console, but at the same time I'd wager that most people buying one are only using it for first party games and still use their Xbox or PlayStation as their primary gaming system because that's where all the big games are. It's nice that people are trying, but when the PSVR version of Skyrim outsells the Switch one, it raises questions.
I know, anecdotally, so the proverbial pinch of salt is required, that all my local shops paint a grim picture for the Switch despite the sales. It's like you go online and read the news and see insane sales numbers and it's like, wow, and then you go out to a shop and it has less shelf space than novelty Pokemon mugs. Even if the third party market completely collapses - which I think it probably will, as many predicted long ago - I still think the console will be fine.
@johncalmc I think - despite Ninty's best efforts, Switch will continue (and eveually surpass) sharing the indie space with Vita.
So long as that continues and larger third parties see that the install base remains large, accepting of indies and as impassioned as Vita lovers - the 3rd party space will be fine.
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@johncalmc I agree. Also anecdotally, in my work there are five of us with a Switch and all of us game on other machines primarily (a couple on PS4 but the rest PC). All of us have BOTW, Mario Kart and Odyssey and a few indies (I have the most titles with Doom and Skyrim). I think this might be why we keep seeing these games break the top twenty in the UK as people like the Switch, buy the software they can't get elsewhere and play that. People are buying it for the form factor and great first party games as a refresher from other hardware.
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@johncalmc The Switch is performing far worse in the U.K. than in other regions, though. ESPECIALLY at retail. I don't think your local game shop's Switch section is any more indicative of a grim future for it than, say, the low-ish sales figures of the PS4 in Japan week after week when compared to Switch.
@Ralizah I have no idea, which I guess is why I said to take it with a pinch of salt. I certainly haven't done any hard hitting analysis of the situation. I'm just always surprised when I see the Switch section in a game shop because it always looks pretty sad.
When you say Switch is doing worse in the UK compared to other regions, do you mean some other regions, or most other regions? I naturally assumed it was doing nowhere near as strong in Europe as it was in the US because that makes sense.
The Switch was the fastest selling console in its first year in the U.S.
And we all know how it's doing in Japan.
I mean, we don't have explicit, constant sales data for a lot of markets, but it seems to be selling incredibly well almost everywhere... except for the U.K.
@johncalmc The Switch is probably the worst performing in the UK out of anywhere globally.
In the US, Japan, France, Italy, Spain...its either outpacing the PS4 (Japan) or Wii (Europe) and becoming the fastest selling system in the respective country ever, just like in the US.
When we say its worst in the UK we MEAN its worst in the UK. Its almost an exception!
But if you looknat tge Switch eShop in the UK, third party stuff is routinely leaps and bounds above first party. In fact yesterday the highest first party thing was MK8D, with I believe 10 or so third party titles like Football Manager, Stardew, Skyrim etc. Above it.
The retail scene paints a grim image yes...but almost every other country its available in paints the exact opposite image.
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Diverse install base and multiple ecosystem users.
I wouldn't buy an XB1, but would consider a Switch had I not got the Vita. I know several people with some combination of PS4, XB1 and Switch hardware.
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You ever noticed we have this constant macho image we need to maintain? Kids are bullied in schools for not playing GTA and CoD and FIFA or for playing "baby games". Heck I know I was and even had some of those comments on this very site!
The UK is a weird market unto itself.
Anyway, thisll let you know a little hint about how the retail scene, just in general as this can easily (as we see on the UK eShop) appky to other nations as well...
Third party sales are higher on the eShop than at retail in the US for the first time.
In the UK it also obviously is, just look at the chart, but in Europe as a whole I expect its guaranteed to angle that way to be a digital storefront because as Ive mentioned, lots of third party games are digital only here but physical elsewhere
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Not that this is indicative of Switch sales in the UK, but the other day I went into my local Argos...
and they replaced the Xbox shelve with a Nintendo one. The PS shelve is still twice as big, but no Xbox representation was surprising.
Maybe this says more about Xbox then it does about Nintendo. Might take a picture the next time I pop in.
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@Fight_Teza_Fight I still remember when ASDA stopped selling Wii U games because they weren't worth the shelf space any more. You know it's serious when the shops can't be bothered.
I do wonder how Xbox Game Pass is affecting sales of their games.
It is an absolutely incredible system. Basically what PS+ would be in the wildest fantasies of Sony fanboys.
Maybe Microsoft will transition away from retail altogether over time and solidify the Xbox brand as a subscription service to play games like Sea of Thieves and Halo 4?
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That's basically what Microsoft wanted Xbox to be from the beginning when they first acquired the net tv stuff and started out the DirectX Box path.
The One was really the culmination of what they wanted for living room dominance. If they hadn't handled the likes of E3 2013 so very badly, things could already be quite different.
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@Ralizah 2m $60 sales per game release or 10m $10 sales each month. Mathematically, it makes sense they want to go to subscriptions and just have everyone on Windows.
We already know independent stores are dropping Xbox because of that.
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