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Third-party Switch 2 game sales have started off slow, with one publisher selling ‘below our lowest estimates’

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Third-party Switch 2 game sales have started off slow, with one publisher selling ‘below our lowest estimates’ | VGC

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„Same game released on 7 different platforms across at least 2 generations of hardware not selling well among early adopting enthusiasts who probably bought it twice already. Analysts baffled.”
- Also on game key cards 🤮
well... yeah. nobody wants to buy a full price game that they already own on steam that they got on sale 3 years ago.
why would they? the only people those games are marketed for are nintendo exclusive users who have no other game platform.
the world spins regardless of if nintendo decides to put out a new overpriced console or not. if they're getting left behind, the world will continue to spin.
- nobody wants to buy a full price game that they already own on steam that they got on sale 3 years ago.
  How many Nintendo games are on Steam?
  
  third party games. that's what the article is talking about. and what I am talking about.
Yeah, turns out $80 for a game will have people only buying must have games or in my case no games at all.
- I don’t think that $80 price tag that’s causing this. There are no new retail games at this price currently other than Mario Kart and anyone interested got a bundle. Zelda rereleases make 0 sense to buy retail, I got a used copy of Switch release and Nintendo Online + or whatever it is called at half the price.
  
  My local game store said demand for console is high; MKW bundle being the most popular. The demand for games, accessories and controllers is not high. I can't imagine that lack of demand to blamed on anything else other than pricing or uncertainty of the economy.
- None of these games are $80
  MKW is the only one. Even the next big Nintendo title (Donkey Kong) is going to be $69
  I think they did it with MKW to up the value of the MKW console bundle (where you'd only pay $50 for the game) but we'll see.
Most of the launch titles are old ports sold at full price. The article only references physical sales and again most of these games don't even have game data on the cartridge which completely ruins the point of a physical release.
Stop this game key shit then
- Game Keys still way better than the "here's a code in an empty box" shit
Is there any third party game on switch 2 that wasn't on the first switch? Looking at the Nintendo store I can't even tell.
- They made a filter for that specifically on eShop :P
  Cyberpunk 2077, Street Fighter 6, Yakuza 0, Bravely Default Remaster. All rereleases. Only Fast Fusion and Split Fiction are new but both are a bit of a niche thing.
  
  I've gone through all tabs of the eShop and don't see any filter like that anywhere.

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