People will pick up another copy of a game for Switch, if a huge enough profile.īrand new indie IP isn’t getting higher up the charts - unless very Nintendo-y: OMORI - already a smash on PC and a very Nintendo-friendly Earthbound-influenced JRPG - is one of a handful to make it as a new franchise. Bringing Portal to Switch many years - after all the other versions - worked. ‘Games coming to Switch late’ can still crush it: rebooting The Stanley Parable and bringing to consoles worked. Success is being driven by licensed games & continued franchises: perhaps not surprising, but licenses (Star Wars, TMNT, MLB) and game follow-ups or DLC (Monster Hunter, Cuphead, Rune Factory) dominate the top games here. What do we see here? Some impressions on the trends: (If the ‘chart weeks’ column has a * by it, the game is still in the Top 30 right now.) eShop’, and the number of weeks that the game stayed in the Top 30 of all downloads on Switch. So this lists ‘the highest download ranking on the U.S. charts aren’t 100% representative of worldwide demand - but it’s a good starting point.) And that’s how we compiled the below chart which is our view on the top new third-party Switch games of H1 2022: This allows us to differentiate low-selling and high-selling #1s & how they ranked compared to ‘evergreen’ F2P downloads like Fortnite, Apex Legends and Rocket League. eShop, such as Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak (above) - alongside its overall ranking in ‘most-downloaded Switch games over the past 14 days’. But all is not lost! Let us demonstrate.įor GameDiscoverCo Plus, our data nerd Alejandro manually grabs info on the Top 30 ‘recent’ third-party games on the Switch U.S. Since Switch lacks public achievement profiles, CCU info, or user reviews, much of what we can extrapolate about it is from the limited ranking data available on-device on the eShop. Every day, GameDiscoverCo wakes up and asks - what information do we want to know that platforms do a poor job of exposing to us? And sure, there are more transparent platforms, such as Steam - and way less transparent ones, such as Switch.

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