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Binding of Isaac came out near launch while Rocket League came out near the end of the year. With that in mind, their placements aren't that surprising.
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Top 20 Most Played Switch Games of 2017 in North America (according to Nintendo)
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Yeah, good point. I'm still a little surprised by BoI's popularity, but I guess I'm clearly just underestimating it.
That's a very good list, and once again indicates how vibrant and engaged the Switch ecosystem is for first parties, third parties, and indie developers.
Skyrim's performance makes me happy.
Skyrim's performance makes me happy.
I'm... confused. Is this ranked by play hours? Total play hours, or average play hours across all owners?
Neither USF2 and Bomberman are on the list while both were considerated a success from Capcom and Konami respectively. Jesus, some think Switch is a niche system like Wii U was.
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To quote the newsletter...
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A bit unfair to compare a medium length single player campaign ( I know it has MP, but it's not the main course) to one of most famous open world games.
I think the best way to read this is number of copies sold × hours played. Hence why most of them are either open world games or mainly online vs.
I've done my part it's my most played game at 'over 80 hours'
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It's honestly impressive that they were able to get into the Top 20 at all in such a short amount of time.
Xenoblade just came out at a rough time for all these "biggest / best of 2017" type lists. I've put more hours into that than every other Switch game combined so far (to be fair, I've underplayed a few titles) so unless it just sold no copies it's hard to imagine its not a big player for the system.
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Pretty surprised but happy for ARMS that those who did buy it seem to be engaging with it. Hats off to Nintendo for nabbing 1-4 as well, all are phenomenal games.
It being the most recently launched game on that list but still that high suggests that its sales are probably extremely good. All we know as of now is a bit over 100k physical in November, I wouldn't be surprised if it doubled that number in December. And who knows about digital.
Either that or everyone who did buy it is playing it nonstop (this is the case for me).
Except we don't have happy statements from Betheseda on Doom sales. So, again, it doesn't look good.
~60k physical for November is the leaked number, which is fairly decent for a full price late port of a FPS on a Nintendo console. I'm sure they're happy with its performance.
Skyrim undoubtedly performed quite well too, and we don't have a happy statement about that either. Not every success gets a happy statement.
For what reason? You seem to be popping in a lot of Nintendo-related threads with drivebys and not explaining yourself. At least you said more in the EDGE 10/10 topic after "lol they're Nintendo fanboys".
It is. Someone needs to send Konami this list with NBA2K and FIFA highlighted.
That, plus Bethesda hardly shared any numbers or statements regarding the Skyrim remaster last year, and it toom for NPD to ultumately reveal to us that the game had actually done well.
Yeah, Skyrim will do that to you haha. Anyway, i am sure it has done well, it's the perfect game to follow up BotW with.
Skyrim 100k numbers was for the first 9 days on sale, so there were 36 more for it to sell. I think 200k for Skyrim in US is quite possible.
I had a hard time believing Xenoblade wasnt even in the top 20 and Rocket League barely making it, because I thought this was average per title, not cumulative numbers.
Sure, but it also had only 1 month for people to play it. I find it hard to conceive that a significant portion of owners would be able to put in 100 hours in just 1 month.
I'm also guessing that more people will go buy NBA 2K or FIFA, generally mainstream games in NA, than a JRPG like Xenoblade.
We got happy statement about every 3rd party devs on Switch when the game is selling well. So if we don't here anything, it's because the sales are not that good. By the way 60k is poor, not decent.
The incredible success of the Switch doesn't seem to translate well with the big 3rd party devs yet. Now like Doom and Skyrim, ports on Switch are probably not the best indicator of 3rd party sales potential on Switch.
On the other hand, indies are doing fantastically well !
Yeah, although I'm hoping that's more because it's a short game than a lack of players.
And i assume this is based on total hours. You just can't catch up to those sellers.
Do we think this means that Skyrim sold much better than xenoblade2? It was only a 3 week difference?
That is a logical fallacy if I ever read one. Besides, Bethesda is privately owned so there is no way to pin point what they will and won't talk about.
Also, I believe Mat Piscatella or some other analyst said in ERA that they consider Doom numbers to be good, so assuming I can find that, you would need to do much more than just claim 60k is bad. Edit: I can't find the quote, so disregard this please.
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Yeah thats the only useful data we can gather from this lol, the higher the rank, the better it sold, meh.
same
really, it's a fantastic remake of a late 80s master system game, if it made the top 20 i'm happy for lizardcube
Nah, that's a fairly unreasonably stance to take. Bethesda doesn't make these kinda statements for many of their games apparently, DOOM's absence on this chart could easily just be down to it being a rather short game.
And 60k physical in about 2.5 weeks is fine for the type of game this is. At $60 it's gonna generate a fair bit of revenue for Bethesda.
I'd honestly be surprised if Skyrim didn't sell more than XC2. Skyrim has done quite well so far, and XC2 is a very niche game.
Cool story.
This list has been provided by Nintendo, it's the hard truth.
That's a bold statement, sounds like you have a major title in the pipeline!
Fucking Minecraft man, strong as ever. Also nice to see Stardew Valley and Isaac so high, even though that's also due to how many hours you can sink into those games