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The Atelier series has also had favorable sales performance on Nintendo's hybrid, with the Ryza series achieving a shipment total of one million. We can mention Koei Tecmo here, with Samurai/Dynasty Warriors games being made for Switch despite the company's somewhat quiet participation in the 3DS market. While being left behind in terms of AAA games, Nintendo has managed to turn the Switch into a key system for AA Japanese games. It's a major failure for Nintendo and its third party relations that, even after four years of incredible sales success, the manufacturer is unable to cultivate a diverse and ambitious line-up from them. The Switch is still a hot item for consumers, but no so much for major third party publishers, where a clear trend is starting to emerge - that of third parties providing few games for Switch but a fairly consistent number of new high-profile titles for Xbox and PlayStation platforms. The Nintendo E3 Direct did reveal some new third party games, including Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, and Life is Strange: True Colors, but just a handful, and outside of those we were only treated to some very late ports ( Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Danganronpa Decadence, and Life is Strange Remastered Collection). It's clear that the Switch is going to progressively fall behind in terms of the amount of major new releases. I've obviously omitted a lot of lower profile releases that are also only coming to PlayStation and/or Xbox platforms there.

Most major games third party games won't be getting a Switch version, including Lost Judgment, Elden Ring, Tales of Arise, Rainbow Six Extraction, Diablo IV, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles, Far Cry 6, Battlefield 2042, King of Fighters XV, GRID Legends, Dead Space Remake, and of course Final Fantasy XVI.

The Switch missed out on most of the big third party announcements at E3, and indeed has done for a few months now. And yet, when watching this year's many E3 conferences and announcements, third parties tended to focus on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series, despite Nintendo's hybrid still topping hardware sales charts in many territories. The Nintendo Switch is a worldwide success, already selling significantly more than the 3DS in just four years. By Thomas Froehlicher, posted on 26 July 2021 / 650,010 Views