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Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap hits 100k sold on Switch - more than all other platforms combined
- Thread starter Jonneh
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Well deserved. It's a great game. If you like Metroidvanias, you should check it out.
Nice to have some numbers...otherwise we would have the usual crowd downplay that the Switch version is the best selling version.
Hope it keeps selling.
Hope it keeps selling.
Depressing ? 100k for such a title on just one platform is amazing.
It's back in the eShop charts right now(it's on sale), it's not just release timing.
Good for switch, but less than 200k for all platforms combined ain't great
I wasn't saying it was purely because of its timing, but it most certainly helped.
Awesome game btw and well deserved.
At some point Nintendo has to deal with the discovery problem every big digital market place experiences.
10 times? So Steamworld Dig 2 sold >300.000 copies on NSW? Wow, source for this?
Steamspy has Steamworld Dig 2 around 30k on Steam so that would be an insane result for Switch.
Yet to pick up Steamworld Dig 2
I originally played it on the Playstation (the first one and loved it)
I haven't even considered buying it off Steam/Console store though
Switch or Bust
I originally played it on the Playstation (the first one and loved it)
I haven't even considered buying it off Steam/Console store though
Switch or Bust
It's not record setting but it's still pretty solid overall, it's not like this was going to have an insane budget or something.
That's a lot, i didnt expect to see 300.000 copies so early for NSW.
Didn't even realize this was out on PSN.
I did buy it on the eShop though because it was on sale the past week. I imagine sales will only go up the more it goes on sale on other platforms.
I did buy it on the eShop though because it was on sale the past week. I imagine sales will only go up the more it goes on sale on other platforms.
100.000 is a really good result on a single platform for an indie game. Keep in mind that on digital stores games tend to have a longer life. If they sold 100.000 copies at full price the game will keep selling (thanks to WOM) and future discounts will help too.
True, the game clearly resonates with the Switch audience though. There's a lot of games on sale on the eShop but none have shot back up like Wonder Boy.
Well, it also released like 2 months later on PC, that probably didn't help it there.
I can see it being profitable for a team this small, what it does is helps them get through for the other game they got going.
This is an indie game, the budget is a fraction of AAA games.
I'm sure they earn more than what they expected at that level of sales.
Pretty incredible, but it's a bit of a failure on other platforms at this point basically. On Steam, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 quality indie games seem to have a hard time emerging between the shower of indie games saturating the market. There's the occasional Cuphead or Undertale that also gets massive media and Youtube coverage, but if you don't get noticed right away for some very specific element (visual style, soundtrack, etc.) you likely end up selling barely anything at all. In comes the Switch that has a lot of units sold to people who obviously have money to buy a console at launch, the library is still not filled with 2000 similar indie titles, and the well-liked ones are selling as people are trying to find the next big thing to play on their new console, given there hasn't been that much in term of triple-A games yet. It all adds up in the end.
So the game has sold under 200k but probably over 150k (extrapolating here, since I don't think XBO and PS4 sold less that steam together).
That's nice enough for a relatively small title that will probably still sell during sales.
And it's really fantastic to finally have a number for a title to compare things. Even if rough, it would be fantastic if we could guess if games like Thimbleweed Park are over or under 100k.
That's nice enough for a relatively small title that will probably still sell during sales.
And it's really fantastic to finally have a number for a title to compare things. Even if rough, it would be fantastic if we could guess if games like Thimbleweed Park are over or under 100k.
It's a remake of Wonder Boy 3 that was subtitled The Dragon's Trap back in the day, so...
How has this ranked on eshop when it released?
And Steamworld dig did 300,000? Anyone have an idea how long that hung in the top 5 of the eshop?
These are both digital only I assume?
Either way, this adds more evidence to my claim that games can sell good numbers on the eshop based on ranking.
Yes....for some this was a controversial statement. I've no idea.
And Steamworld dig did 300,000? Anyone have an idea how long that hung in the top 5 of the eshop?
These are both digital only I assume?
Either way, this adds more evidence to my claim that games can sell good numbers on the eshop based on ranking.
Yes....for some this was a controversial statement. I've no idea.
The next question is if Golf Story surpassed SWD2 sales numbers considering how it overtook it very quickly on eShop rankings.