Nintendo Switch 2 had a good support from third parties, with the result that the launch lineup is made up of an offer that contains titles such as Street Fighter 6 or Cyberpunk 2077.
However, as a report by The Game Business reports, the sales of third parties are not going as the publishers had foreseen.
In the United States, 62% of the physical sales of games for Switch 2 in the launch week comes from First-Party titles (excluding Mario Kart World’s bundle), according to circan data. In the UK, the percentage drops to 48% excluding the bundle, but rises to 86% if Mario Kart World is included.
It must be said that at the launch of the first Switch First-Party titles represented 89% of physical sales in the United Kingdom, and 81% in the United States in the launch month, suggesting a slight improvement for third parties this time.
It is obvious that Nintendo’s Racing Game is dominating the rankings, the video games of EA, Take-Tlat, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Sega, Capcom and the other publishers are struggling.
To the point that, according to the report, one of the publishers defined the sales data “below our lower estimates”, despite the strong hardware sales of Nintendo Switch 2.
It is clear that the presence of Mario Kart World in Bundle with the console affects the purchase options of the public. With a video game already present inside the console, many players have certainly decided to wait to buy other titles to accompany the launch.
Another element that affects is the fact that the console has not been sent in advance to journalists, so that at the launch there were no reviews of third -party games for Switch 2 who could have pushed the players to buy more together with Mario Kart World.
The only video game non-nineteen to having absentablely stands out is Cyberpunk 2077, which managed to record important numbers in the games of the games sold on Switch 2.
We will see if the weather will give third parties more space to be able to impose themselves in players’ habits, but the arrival of video games as Donkey Kong Bananza will not help.