Nintendo Switch released worldwide early last March. The little hybrid handheld hasn’t even been on the market for a year ye🐟t, but it sure has been a rollercoaster ride.

Arriving at a time when faith in Nintendo was lacking a little in the industry (what with the Wii U disaster and all), the Switch had a lot to prove. Buoyed along by AAA releases like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey, the system is in a great place just now. N🀅ews fresh out of the Game Developers Conference reveals just how well it’s been doing, and this is going to be a real surprise.

As all gamers know, Nintendo have always been about first-party releases - the Marios, Zeldas, and Kirbys of the world, and the unique brand-new IPs that only Nintendo could ever pull off, like Pikmin, Animal Crossing and the Switch’s own ARMS. Generally speaking, your interest –or lack thereof—in a Nintendo sy♈stem will solely hinge around these things.

Why didn’t PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale make the same impression that Smash Bros does? Primarily because of the lack of big mascot characters. That’s the House of Mario’s major strength, but the situation is reversed when it comes to third-party support. Historically, due to the lacking tech specs of their machines, Nintendo haven’t had the same support from third-parties, and it&rsq🥀uo;s been a bigger risk to port to their systems. This was a major contributor to the Wii U’s failure.

It seems that there’s good news for Nintendo on this score, though. At the recent Game Developers Conference, the report concluded that Switch has been a hit for third-parties. As reports, most respondents to the question have Switch game sales compared to the average across all the platforms you've launched on? gave a positive answer. Sales h🐬ad been average or above average for most, with just 16% considering Switch sales to be below their average.

Now, granted, this isn’t particularly conclusive in and of itself. The State of the Industry is an annual survey of around 🥂4000 games developers, which is conducted ahead of the Game Developers Conference in March. The sample size, the variation as to what ‘average’ sales expectations could actually mean… this isn’t all that telling. For long-time Nintendo fans, though, it&rsquo𒁏;s a positive step nonetheless. If nothing else, more developers could be encouraged to bring their games to the Switch, and that’s good news all around.

If unlikely ports like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dark Souls Remastered can come to fruition on Switꦡch, who knows what might𝓰 be next?