A whopping 18 games are launching on Switch this week

This week is a crazy one for the Nintendo Switch, because a whopping 18 new games will be released for the system. That's by far the biggest release week in the history of the console.

[-Thanos]

A nice number and variety of third party games, gracing the legendary Nintendo Switch, in one week. This happens when a console is a smashing success. The legendary Nintendo Switch is indeed a smashing success. This is only the first year. The games lineup can only, and will only, get much better. The ability to play the same home system on the go, a proven game changer.

[_-EDMIX-_]

I think it's an interesting concept but in no means do I believe it's "a game-changer" especially since this is not the first time you've been able to play a game on the go in any degree of quality.

If anything I would say this is a game-changer for Nintendo as a company individually, it would be their first time basically only selling a portable or their first time in a very long time only focusing on one device.

[nitus10]

All those games get a "yawn" from me since I am very picky but the proof of success (more support) or failure (dropped support) will be sales.

As for "gaming on the go" I normally drive and cops take a very dim view of people not paying attention on the road. Even commuting is problematic if you are on a crowded bus or train especially if you're traveling times are usually less than 30 minutes. Personally, I stick to a smartphone since they are much more versatile and are relatively small.

[_-EDMIX-_]

@nit-well I respect your opinion and I'm glad to see that you're able to be level headed to understand that future success is going to be based on sales of software.

I'm not as much as a portable gamer as I was when I was younger but the switch (like the PSP before) gives me the opportunity to play on my television which I actually did with the PSP later and it's life for actually quite a long time.

I think overall it's going to depend on the software and people that still like playing their games on their phones I don't really believe are going to change.

I believe this is going to be extremely successful for Nintendo Gamers because this is a community over all that doesn't necessarily care about Graphics so being on a portable is not necessarily a terrible thing to that community, also having one device instead of splitting the door install base amongst to devices will be beneficial for all Nintendo gamers.

So I would say a lot of this benefits Nintendo Gamers as a community more than gaming in general.

This is not necessarily a first time in gaming but clearly a first time for Nintendo to do something like this.

As for third party games it remains to be seen and a lot of that future support, is going to be based on sales.

[Hroach616]

Jesus calm down lol enthusiasm is good but when it’s litteraly oozing off the page you can tone it down a bit

[-Thanos]

There can be too much enthusiasm, but never too much negativity or toxic. Gotcha.

[Sirk7x]

Dude, I love my Switch (it really is a great console), but calling anything legendary is going to attract some negativity lol.

[rataranian]

Youre obviously mental.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

I hope this does mark the start of a trend.
The Switch's first year is turning out to be fantastic and is tracking above the Wii U.
If Nintendo keeps the momentum, they'll be set for next year as well.

[_-EDMIX-_]

It all depends on how well a lot of these titles sell, if they sell well for their respective publishers you very much could see more games release but like I said all of that is clearly dependent on how well they actually sell.

We saw a lot of this on the Wii U so if the community doesn't actually actively start purchasing third party games you very well may see them just go elsewhere the same thing happened on Xbox with a lot of franchises.

[Istolla]

Aren't you tired of being wrong? So far third party games on the Switch have sold very well even Street fighter on switch sold well (better than it had any right to). Mario + Rabbids, and indie games are selling on the Switch.

There is a reason the Switch is starting to see more support. It's because games are selling well on the system.

[The 10th Rider]

US Switch software sales this year are on track to be the best year for Nitnendo since NPD tracking began.

http://www.gamesindustry.bi...

[_-EDMIX-_]

@istolla-wrong about what? My statement I'm making is pretty obvious that it must be successful or for those that are successful must continue to be successful,no where am I saying that it won't be.

I'm simply saying that if some of these franchises that come out on the Nintendo switch do not perform profitably for Publishers they're going to stop support. (Once again I'm already telling you something that you already know I'm not actually saying that's going to happen or anything like that)

You saying that third-party so far as selling well is irrelevant because you don't know the sales of Doom Wolfenstein 2 or Skyrim or anything like that based on the sales of a Mario game or Street ..

That's like saying that games like zombie u or watch dogs are going to be great because of another successful Wii U game.

All games are not created equal and I'm shocked that anyone even needs to tell you this....

The switch is not receiving support because the actual software selling more it's most likely receiving support because there is a void of many genres, many Publishers are testing the waters to see if they could make money on the system as it's very hard to say something like Skyrim is releasing on the switch because of the game sales of other switch games when it was announced to come to the switch before any units were even sold to the public ....

So like I said before it's going to receive more support if game sales for third party games become profitable, but it's going to lose that support just as quick as it got it if those sales are not profitable for third party.

Stop deliberately trying to argue

The statement I made can be applied to any platform for any publisher I've actually made that statement for multiple platforms by the way.

The support that comes in the future is going to be based on the sales of those Publishers games

I'm not sure what's trying to be debated here, it's common sense

@10-I don't disagree with you clearly they're doing really well with Zelda Mario Kart and Mario Rabbids.... Nintendo properties.

actually only further proves my point.

Thanks. You're not seeing much third party in that list.

That's going to need to change if they actually want to get more support. The fact that the best-selling third-party game needs to actually be a Nintendo intellectual property further goes to show the install base favoritism of Nintendo's games.

It might go to show that the only way third parties can be successful on their platform is by basically using Nintendo properties. Which isn't bad by the way I actually think that's a great idea as I've stated multiple times as well guys seem to exaggerate almost every Point anyone makes that's not praying to this company 😂😂😂

Yes, that means I believe it's a good idea that Ubisoft chose to do that because look at the results of using a Nintendo property. Fact that that must even be done just to sell a significant amount of units on this install base further shows the isolation of this install base in regards to other publishers.

That is going to need to change in order for more Publishers to come on board

Like I said stop arguing against Common Sense are you guys going to tell me that no sales whatsoever need to be received for Publishers to keep putting games on the system? Lol

[The 10th Rider]

@_-EDMIX-_,

Did you actually read what the guy said? Right now sales are driven by first party titles, which makes sense as there hasn't been many third party game released yet. However, "Now that third-party support seems to be gaining momentum regularly, we should start seeing more balanced contribution."

An analyst from a group that has been tracking sales for 22 years believes that third-party sales are starting to pick up on the Switch. Stop reading things selectively.

[_-EDMIX-_]

@The10- thats nice.

Game sales must continue for them to keep getting 3rd party support or for support to stay. Not sure why are you triggered by that fact. Was not made to make you feel bad.

[Nintentional]

Somebody’s salty over here 🙄😂

[_-EDMIX-_]

Nintentional lol dat name doe!

😂😂😂

This is probably one of my favorite names on n4g right now.

Btw, no salt, other than a lot of your reactions. My comment actually applies to every platform and was never made as some negative shade. You guys simply find any comment to see it as a negative regardless of what it's trying to say.

It all depends on how well games sell but that applies to every single publisher in gaming sooooo yea.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

The system itself wouldn't be tracking above the Wii U so much, to the point that Nintendo's having their best year since 1995, if there weren't plenty of titles aside from their own selling well, so your concern isn't that big a concern.
What matters is whether or not Nintendo can keep up the momentum by continuing to pull in indies while making more strides in their first party stuff.
The AAA third party names will come at their own pace with either new games or ports, slow as the buildup might be, but they'll come.

[kevnb]

all we saw on wii u were ports of older games, not much else as far as third party goes.

[Sirk7x]

Well above the Wii U, the software sales on the Switch in the US are the best that Nintendo has seen since 95: http://nintendoeverything.c...

[Scatpants]

Wow normally they only release a few shovelware titles every week, but this week it's as if they're shoveling shovelware at us.

[EddieNX]

Hardly any shovel ware there just respected indie games and third party games. Shovel ware is stuff like Barbies pony ride etc.

The quality controlled on Switch is top drawer atm, unlike the Wii, DS which were flooded with shovel ware. 3DS and Wiiu were an improvement but the Switch has got it right.

Everything is just 1st party, 3rd party or respectable indie games.

[gleepot]

Agreed, they are good games.

[phoenixwing]

half of it is kind of shovelware but still that doesn't mean they're all bad either. Good week for nintendo

[NotoriousWhiz]

I have a switch but they brought out the heavy shovels for this week. That said there are some good games in there too. I got Golf story and it seems pretty fun. I may get Fifa if there's ever a price drop. But really, there's gonna be so much good stuff between October and November, that it just won't be feasible to support every quality title on the Switch.

[Chaosdreams]

That's nice.

[Outlawzz]

Great news and I wish I could support these games but I have my hands full with Xenoverse and pokenn probably till Mario releases

[superchiller]

Really most of the games listed are either shovelware or small arcade/indie games, certainly nothing to get excited about. I guess it's good that the Switch is getting something, but most 3rd party developers are still not going to water down their games to run on the Switch.

[_-EDMIX-_]

I mean look at it like this this is good for Nintendo's install base to get this chance to support third party content.

I agree that most third-party developers are not going to downgrade their games to support the switch but the same could be said for basically every major portable that's released in the past

If they're able to do well with some of these Publishers especially Bethesda you're going to see some support at least until PlayStation 5 and the next Xbox come out similar to the cutoff you saw with the Wii U

So if Doom Skyrim in Wolfenstein 2 are able to do well you're definitely going to see Fallout 4 released and possibly even the first Wolfenstein or even Evil Within one or two

There would be no reason for a publisher to not continue to support an active hungry healthy install base especially if their games are proven to sell.

And clearly the same goes for the other direction if the game's underperform and they're not able to make their money back you're just going to see what you saw from the other Publishers and them move on.

But many Publishers are not going to do this right off of the bat because their games have not been designed to run on that Hardware or they've already spent enough money trying to sell on that install base and might be focusing their efforts on next-gen in terms of engine development.

I believe in the next couple years they could do well with getting some Publishers to make a version for them but they're going to happen even Huger uphill battle when PlayStation 5 in the next Xbox are released at this point they've kind of done this to themselves and unless they're going to make a console that releases along with the other platforms they're literally going to be having a yo-yo type of install base

I don't know how many newly-found Doom or Elder Scrolls or Fallout fans are going to skip the next Elder Scrolls or Doom that come out on PlayStation 5 in the next Xbox because they own a Nintendo switch.

If anything the inconsistency might actually show that it's not feasible to really own a Nintendo system if they want to be fans of some of those series which actually means some people might become fans of those properties before they stay fans of Nintendo

I mean some of these games might convert those people to just buying PlayStation 5 and Xbox 2 when they launch because they're already going to be getting the sequel to the game they originally played on switch or earlier as opposed to waiting another 3 to 4 years to hopefully get a version of it remastered or something.

I mean put it this way just to put it into perspective every single last last generation game did not release on the Wii U just like every single last current generation game is most likely not going to release on switch , so there is a definitely a possibility that every single last game that releases this generation or next generation is not going to release on a Nintendo future switch device.

It's just too extremely inconsistent for anyone to really be long-term fans of a series while also missing multiple installments for a years longer than other fans.

[Apocalypze]

I prefer quality over quantity...

[GameBoyColor]

First party releases like every other month then ever since it launched. For the 1st year, Switch has had a healthy dose of games. Much better than xbox that's for sure lol

[GameBoyColor]

I see xbox and pc players begging for ps exclusives though lol

[-Thanos]

@VenomSnakeRisingX

PC, PS, and Xbox players all beg for ports too. Don't really understand your point. But keep up the venomous work.

[ErogeMaster]

Pc master race don't need to beg for console kiddie handouts.

[_-EDMIX-_]

I don't know what the positive benefit is to you missing Battlefront Destiny 2 shadow of War Far Cry 5 Assassin's Creed Origins and so many other games.

I don't know about you but I prefer both...

[LIGATURE]

Seriously edmix

[Istolla]

He's choosing to go down with the ship. Bring in the violinists.

[V0LT]

If you want a console to fail you are not a gamer...

[DillyDilly]

& none of them interest me & I have no interest in a half assed FIFA missing features

[GameBoyColor]

Customized engine=half assed? If anything they did more work than 2k did. 2ks game is truly half assed.

[DillyDilly]

When its missing features its half assed

[Elda]

Still not one of those games make me want to buy a Switch but I'm hoping to grab a SNES mini tomorrow morning.

[bluefox755]

I guess we're supposed to celebrate, and pretend like they're amazing games and not nearly all indies that no one has ever heard of? Sure, why not.

[freshslicepizza]

That would be relevant to say if that is all they are coasting on. It is OK to like other platforms you know.

[Prince_TFK]

Games like Limbo, Spelunky, Super Meat Boy, and Binding of Issac were indies games that no one had heard of, yet they became smashing success and were some of the most amazing games that had ever made. So I don’t get your point here.

The Switch got many interesting indies titles this week which is spearheaded by Golf Story (a game I just bought to support the dev) and I’m glad for that. Anyway, I guess it is only ok for the Vita to get indies support, not the Switch on this site.

[michellelynn0976]

This will continue, the Switch is a smash and the development kits are VERY cheap and Nintendo fans are buying these games, so there is a big market for this.

[gangsta_red]

Good to see a lot more games releasing on Switch. A lot of them from the list seem perfect for the on the go type function the Switch offers.

[Xenophon_York]

One AAA game and seventeen independent (high potential of being mostly shovelware) titles are difficult to get excited about. Better than nothing, but still...

[Yohshida]

Meanwhile, steam released 34 new games TODAY:
http://store.steampowered.c...

[AKR]

I don't understand the salt here in the comments. The Switch has been on the market for a little over six months. Are you expecting 1000 games to come to the console in a month? Aren't the slowest periods of ANY system's life the initial few months after launch and then the last few months of its lifecycle?

Good grief...

[ErogeMaster]

But it aint news if a Nintendo only news outlet wants to make a point about it we don't see sony or ms pull anything outta the sort and when they do it it's games for gold or ps plus free games.

[AKR]

The website that posted this is not affiliated with Nintendo. In fact, almost none of the news sites for any of the platforms are affiliated directly with the companies behind them.

I write for Enthusiast Gaming, and we have sites for Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox and PC. Yet, we are not tied to Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft.

So, again, I don't see why this post is a big deal.

[Bleucrunch]

Glad more and more games are coming out for the switch, I want more RPG's and action adventure games.

[PaulKersey]

I see FIFA and a lot of indie stuff. Zzzzzzzzzz

[Sm3000]

Uh-oh a positive light switch article, you know who will be in these comments *cough cough edmix cough cough*

[ErogeMaster]

Yawn more gamed get pumped out on steam in a day than a week on switch.

[Miss_Weeboo]

Popular sht, onichan

[quent]

Nintendo seem serious about the switch as much as the 2ds/3ds in how they've been supported for a very long time now, I'm happy about this and so should all gamers as it drives and strengthens the industry that benefits us all, pathetic how these fanboys in the comment section are still "trying" to downplay the Switch's success