To be fair the top spots were all going to be Nintendo anyway. But yeah we could have more third-party content spread throughout the list if we had more options.
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The best selling Switch games of 2017
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Yeah, the roster definitely had people going eeeh. I mean, they announced Marth as one of the first characters, but right after it was pretty much dominated by Fates, from Corrin/Ryoma/Xander/Camilla and all, then Chrom from Awakening. They just really piled on the Fates roster even though I think many people really didn't like the characters themselves. The biggest buzz definitely came when they announced Lyn.
But yeah, I don't like Corrin at all, from the design to the story itself. I always felt Nintendo forced that character onto the fanbase with the inclusion in Smash Bros even before Fates actually released, something they haven't done for any other character. The dragon form is a joke looking like a bad Pokemon character
Oh, I heard that the Special Edition arrived early but the normal physical version was going to take a few days so I decided to go digital thinking that was going to be enough.
(Of course it wasn't).
Yeah I enjoyed XC2 a lot. I hope the nunbers are better than this list implies. I'm hype about Octopath. Demo was so fun.
Really happy to see Skyrim on there.
Its an excellent port and I'm enjoying it more than my first playthrough.
Disappointing to not see FIFA on there.. I do hope it at least cracked a profit for EA. The Switch deserves a proper FIFA game and 18 was a good start. Hoping 19 we see an upgraded engine and the rest of the features of the Ps4/X1 games.
Its an excellent port and I'm enjoying it more than my first playthrough.
Disappointing to not see FIFA on there.. I do hope it at least cracked a profit for EA. The Switch deserves a proper FIFA game and 18 was a good start. Hoping 19 we see an upgraded engine and the rest of the features of the Ps4/X1 games.
You forgot Capcom. And Ubisoft. And Konami. And Namco in the not distant future.
Sega unfortunately hasn't given hard numbers, but we do know the company credited Mania for nearly doubling the amount of packaged games they sold in their third quarter this year (8.65M) compared to last year (4.65M).
Corrin's not my favourite Fire Emblem protagonist either, but they're a good fit for Fire Emblem Warriors. The way they use the dragon form in the game is actually really cool, and they're legitimately one of the most fun characters to play.
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Well, like I said, we use other regions like US, Canada and now with region free, the one where it's the most cheap. So yeah, we count for those markets.
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Fire Emblem Warriors didn't shift away from the character selection method that other Warriors games based on licenses have used in the past. The original Dynasty Warriors: Gundam had a roster taken mostly from the first three TV series with scattered extras. A roster based mostly on Shadow Dragon, Awakening and Fates works out pretty well for the game. Not to mention that the basic, lukewarm take of your personal opinion on the roster being a justification for the game's sales is just asinine in general.
By the way, I wonder if I am Setsuna sold decently? That game keeps coming back to the best sellers section whenever there's a sale.
I still don't understand why they couldn't just include Lords/royals from all mainline games. Even if it were just the main protagonists from those games, I don't think there'd have been as big a criticism/backlash. Makes it even more confusing given Nintendo were more than happy to fill up Heroes with characters from past releases. Sure it was a mobile game and the art-style meant it's likely easier to render/animate different character models in that game but Hyrule Warriors featured characters from a number of entries. I get the difference in popularity between Zelda & Fire Emblem but if you're going to do a musou based on a series with arguably the biggest roster of characters in a single IP (though I'm sure someone will correct me and say something like F-Zero or Animal Crossing technically beats it), why not go all-out? Awakening and Fates aren't bad FE entries by any stretch -- and I like/enjoy a select number of characters from both those games - but I got sick relatively early on with the bias for the newer games.
Fire Emblem Warriors suffered from being a Musou (not very popular) of a relatively niche strategy RPG series first and foremost. It was never going to do big numbers, and I don't get why people thought it would. Throwing in Ike and Roy probably would've given them a few thousand extra sales at best.
I knew Stardew Valley was going to do good, but I am beyond impressed by how it's done. Looks like people really do have a big farming itch deep down.
I knew Stardew Valley was going to do good, but I am beyond impressed by how it's done. Looks like people really do have a big farming itch deep down.
It's almost certainly just data from the Americas. I can't get to my Switch now but someone else could probably take a screenshot, it says clearly at the bottom of this list that the data is "provided to Nintendo Account holders in the Americas."
Nintendo categorizes their worldwide shipments data released in their financial reports by Japan, the Americas, and Others, so it seems pretty likely to me that this is just that data for the Americas.
No FIFA or NBA2K. I hope they did well enough to get another chance come next year. Would also be down for Madden and NHL. Split joy con local multi sports titles have been my go to at work on lunch and breaks.
Heroes and Warriors are two different games with different focuses. Heroes is a gacha game where part of the experience is the gacha collection element and the roster can be updated for as long as the game is live. Warriors is an action game where the roster has to be capped realistically at some point, and thus choices have to be made in terms of what games get represented and which characters from those games are included. FE Warriors has one of the largest casts of player characters of any Warriors game based on a third-party license at about 23 characters if I recall right (25, if you count the Robin and Corrin gender alts), so it's already being generous in that regard. This total also includes the two original characters and does not take into account any of the post-launch DLC.
If you take the royals/lords from each of the games, that's Marth, Alm, Celica, Sigurd, Seliph, Leif, Roy, Eliwood, Hector, Lyn, Eirika, Ephraim, Ike, Micaiah, Chrom, Lucina, Robin, and Corrin. That's eighteen characters, and of those, thirteen are sword users, two are lance users, one is an axe user, and two are mages. The roster of the actual game leans heavily on sword users, as well, but not by this ratio. Also, of the lords/royals listed here, the vast majority of them are foot units, and there are no flying units.
So how do you fill in the gaps, then? Let's say with 18 characters, there's room for five more for a total of twenty-three. So let's pick Caeda (flying lance) and Tiki (manakete), who are in the real roster. That's twenty. That leaves you with three more slots to divide between the entire series. Favorites are going to get left out whether you like it or not.
Focusing the roster primarily on three entries was the smart decision. It let them dig deep into each of the three games, as well as write a narrative that was more coherent for the fact that so many of the characters were already familiar with each other. (By contrast, Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 has a mishmash roster and a story that is shoddy nonsense, at best, to the point that characters are only able to spout catchphrases in battle with minimal story value.)
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what do you mean by "top"
so the list is the same?
That probably confirms it.
Not counting December, id put skyrim below 150k, where'd 200k+ come from?
Do you guys think Bethesda is happy with Skyrim being 14? They have to be considering the game is full price right?
Same lol.
This entire list is very unsurprising and I can't argue against it, the only thing I would have wanted was for Stardew a couple steps even higher. I'm dying to own a Switch just so I can have Stardew portable.
for whats its worth
*Edit: The list probably refers to physical and digital sales in all regions like people are saying so I'm changing it. *
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Oh. If physical sales are included then Xenoblade fucking bombed lol. No spin around it anymore.
I dont think its realistic to expect those to beat any of those games on Switch like they do on PS4 and Xbox one, most of those games are first party or using first party ip or came out early on Switch, or cheap eShop games. Skyrim is really the only exception on the list.
We need a 3rd party list with no digital only cheap games on the list, to really know where things rank for those AAA Switch 3rd party games or real numbers
Capcom and Konami were only from launch games when there wasn't much else to buy as launch games are almost always inflated sales-wise (as I mentioned), and let's seriously not ignore that the single Ubi game on that list has Mario as front and center in name, advertisement, and gameplay.
Bad NPD math. I went and checked sources and yeah, that number is incorrect. When you say below 150k do you mean physical or physical + digital?
Glad to see Mario Rabbids doing so well in the Americas. Such a good game. I imagine Ubisoft is pleased with the sales. Skyrim and Xenoblade being on the list is good since they are very recent releases.
I mean it's been out for two weeks and the list is for the entire year. I'm not making a judgement call on whether it bombed or not, but its position on this list isn't going to tell you that.
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