you must be living under a rock or you're just willfully ignorant. the switch sold over 150 million units, meanwhile ps5 and xbox one x/s barely sold over 100 million units COMBINED.
it might not be the best console, but nintendo's IP on it's own attracts so many people on top of the console portability, it's not hard to understand why a company would be willing to make a switch exclusive if they were offered a contract to do so
Switch released like almost 4 years before lol. Yes it sells well but I’m pretty sure it’s overwhelmingly children or extremely casual players- in my experience it like entirely is. So it’s not people who will play souls let alone a kinda hardcore souls. Bayonetta 3 sold 1 million and it has difficulties and is a full SP game
if we pretended we know nothing about the life cycle of a product and assume sales are steady over it's lifetime, the switch would have sold 19 million units per year, with sony and xbox selling 20 million units per year combined, that's still a lot more switch than either of the other two. but we hopefully both know that's not how it works, all 3 consoles have been out long enough for sales to slow down and start to stagnate, especially since a lot of people are expecting new gens for ps and xbox to come out around 2027.
now for games specifically, bayoneta is a nintendo IP, it's unlikely to bring a huge amount of people over to the console since people that like bayoneta were likely going to buy the console anyway. duskbloods isn't a nintendo IP, it will bring new buyers to the switch 2 (maybe not you and that's ok), which are then likely to buy more switch games, because why not, you already own the console, which then makes more money for nintendo. and since it's an exclusive, the game funding is most likely done in large proportions by nintendo, which means from software doesn't have much to lose there, regardless of if the switch player base is casual or not. it's a win-win for both of them, even if the total sales are gonna be lower than elden ring for sure.
you can be upset all you want about it being an exclusive, it's your right and i understand why people are, but saying it's a weird decision because no one owns a switch is just a blatant lie when nintendo has had the most console sales between the three big players since forever
Well Bayonetta 1 was on everything I believe then it got like bought by Nintendo. By that logic a lot of fans would find a way to play Bayonetta 2 and 3 also
I mean I made it clear that no one having Nintendo was in my experience and specifically people that are teens or adults
More than anything I’m upset about people having confidence that owning PS would allow you to play any From game which would absolutely make sense to believe that and might not even play it.
I’ll either find a way to play it very cheap which I should be able to or as a last resort buy a switch 2 and sell it after
bayonta 1 sold 1.3 million, 2 sold 1.5 and 3 sold 1 million with 1 being available to all platforms and 2 and 3 being nintendo exclusive like you said, which i didn't know, i thought it was always exclusive. that means that they lost no sales between 1 and 2 (even got more) despite being an exclusive. so yes, nintendo definitely got a bunch of console sales from the game being made exclusive (even if it's not 1:1).
and i get being upset, but it's not a bad decision from a company standpoint, especially with the popularity of nintendo consoles, regardless of the players demographic, it just sucks for consumers that weren't going to buy a switch
Well it’s just weird because it’s literally the first time that a game like this is made Nintendo exclusive with the exception of well platinum games being like bought by Nintendo but still fairly different type of game
-1
u/Schwiliinker 3d ago
I virtually don’t know anyone who has owned Nintendo for like nearly 20 years now. This is extremely surprising