UK Charts: Switch Games Take Up Eight Of The Top Ten

Ooh...
Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader made a return to Top 20. 😀

Funny how everyone talks about PlayStation and Xbox as the main platforms but the Switch just quietly keeps printing money. It’s the real no.1!

@tsim21
Well, different peoples have different interest level.
Even I still have interest with Switch 1st party games, but I have more interest with 3rd party games that also on PlayStation machines.

Can tell all the kids are off for summer.

Biggest surprise is MK1 selling best on Switch. Rubbish game, rubbish port.

@Medic_alert

Astro Bot for PS5 looks like one of the best looking, fun games to come out this year (and many a year) so Sony may have finally caught on.

Pleased that Luigi's Mansion 2 is doing well. I picked it up for a relatively cheap price (£34.19 from Argos using code GAMING10 for anyone interested) and I'm surprised at how much I'm actually enjoying it.

Software sales is where the money is.

@BookhouseBoy I’ve enjoyed it on the Switch way more than the 3DS version

The Switch is selling a lot of 3rd party games now. This is good for the Switch, and I think a lot of that will carry over to the Switch 2.

@BookhouseBoy

I've been tempted to pick it up as I've never played the 3DS version.

My only reservation is that I was worried it might feel like a step backwards from Luigi's Mansion 3

Frustrating ghost cat levels aside, I really loved number 3

Crazy there is only 4% of the top 40 that I have bought, would buy, or will buy.

@Member_the_game It's definitely not as as good as Luigi's Mansion 3 but it's still a very enjoyable game and worth checking out. It looks and handles really well on the Switch as well

@BookhouseBoy

Good to know, thanks for getting back to me.

I think I'll take a chance on it

I was going to say something about the guy who always talks about PlayStation here to just move to PushSquare, but looks like he either deleted his comments, or blocked me.

Despite all my rage, I'm just a cat in a tree. Although maybe I need an account makeover. What do NintendoLife users say?

@SBandy1 Their bland copy of Mario, you say?

Funny thing is, the big third party titles available on Switch, are beating out by a large margin, their siblings in the other consoles. FC on Switch beating out the PS5 and PS4 versions, speak a lot about how well the Switch is doing. Even MK1! Not as good as expected game, but it's a very solid version now.

@Edu23XWiiU

Nothing bland about it. The game that came packaged with PS5 is still the most next gen experience I have had across both PS5 and Xbox since they launched due to the dual sense implementation alone. And the game was just pure fun.

More of the same but as a full game means it will probably be my game of the year.

I own all the consoles so not interested in any console war nonsense just good games.

Sorry, but since when did Fifa (I hate calling it EA sports FC) sell the most on Nintendo platforms? Have I stepped into some kind of parallel universe or something?

Last time i bought a Fifa game was Fifa 99 on the N64, after that it was always PES or ISS.

@DonierGunad

Since Switch.

It alway gets outsold at the start by the Sony/Xbox versions but over the year sells very strongly on Switch (the PS5/4 and Switch versions usually sell about the same each week).

Bodes well for Switch 2 third party support.

@SBandy1 too bad they won't deliver good games on a regular basis, on PS5's side. Not saying that the game looks bad, but, is still just Mario from Wish List hehehe.

@Edu23XWiiU

I strongly suggest you play the PS5 pack in game if you haven't already. Might win you over.

I went into Game recently and saw that Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader was reduced to £3 brand new, so that's probably why it's in the charts! (I didn't buy it but I was tempted.)

@SBandy1 Shows how much I pay attention to the console split. I suppose I'm still used to EA giving the watered down versions to Nintendo platforms since Wii. Though the Switch has been the best console Nintendo have put together since the Snes. That's not to say console post Snes where rubbish, far from it, but the Switch just has some magic about it. Magic I don't get from my PlayStation 4 or 5, last time Sony really nailed it for me was the PS3, love that console.

@SBandy1 that’s a day one buy for me….

@rockodoodle

Yep, the Astro Bot games are like first party Nintendo titles on Playstation and there is no higher compliment for developer Team Asobi than that.

@DonierGunad

I loved my N64, Gamecube, Wii, 360, PS4 etc but yeah the SNES was something special.

Switch is probably my favourite of all though. And if Switch 2 is backwards compatible (it really REALLY needs to be) then by right it will be.

Nice to see Switch games dominate the chart. Super impressive for a platform this old.

@SBandy1 I love the idea of back compat. However, Ninty need to get it right this time and not make the same blunder they did when they announced the Wii U. Even thought it was 12/13 years ago I still remember the "game pad only" reveal.

Isn’t the Switch version of Hogwarts mid?

@SBandy1

I thought they "finally caught on" back in their Summer, 2020 PS5 presentation when they announced Astro's Playroom, Sackboy, Rift Apart, and a slew of other games that were right up my alley. Not first party titles, but this is also where Kena, Little Devil Inside, Stray, and Bugsnax were also shown for the first time. Tons of great, creative games that were less gritty and more cartoony, and definitely without a huge, triple-A budget. It was awesome. And then they ended with Horizon, which looked great.

That presentation alone was enough to sell me on buying my very first non-Nintendo system I've ever owned. But after those initial launch window titles, they just kinda... stopped. I really thought they were gonna get serious with fun mascot platforming titles again, maybe bring back Sly Cooper and Jak & Daxter and Ape Escape, but they were just like nah, maybe we should stop making good games.

I can't complain too much though, as this is my first time owning a non-Nintendo console, as I said. So I've slowly been chipping away at a massive backlog of legacy games I never had the opportunity to play before. All the Jak sequels, Sly Cooper, Ape Escape, Psychonauts, Kingdom Hearts, PaRappa the Rapper, Little Big Planet, Spider-Man, Horizon, Dreams... it's been a great time. And there's still plenty more I need to delve into. I haven't even played FFVII, Uncharted, Shadow of the Colossus, and a boatload of others yet.

So, I'm in a fortunate position where I haven't really had to feel the weight of Sony's lackluster release of games and their over-reliance on cinematic visual spectacles at the expense of just a fun experience. It will probably catch up to me eventually, but I still have a long ways to go. But when that time comes, it'd be great to sew Sony go back to their routes and make more games akin to Crash and Spyro thay put them on the map in the first place. Maybe take another stab at Play-Station All-Stars Battle Royale.

@outsider83 I really enjoyed my time with it, but saying it's a heavily compromised port is an understatement. I don't necessarily regret getting the game on Switch, but if I had it to do over again, it probably would have been wise to just get it on PS5. It isn't even the low resolution or framerate that bothered me; it's the fact that the game is constantly having to load. Exploring the open world is mostly seamless, but when you're inside Hogwarts Castle? Half the doors don't open right away and you have to wait a good 5-10 seconds for the game to render what's on the other side before you can enter. And in a massive castle with probably over 100 doors you're constantly entering and exiting, as you can imagine, that time seriously adds up and gets to be a real nuisance. Still had a lot of fun, but man...

@InTree Do you know Eek the Cat?

@outsider83 my son absolutely loves it, got it for Christmas, no thanks to NintendoLife who ridiculously refused to review it, and he’s still playing it.

@Not_Soos PS1 and PS2 (and, to a lesser extent, PS3) had an incredibly diverse lineup of amazing exclusives - often smaller ones - from Japanese developers. With the move of the headquarters to California, Sony made a complete 180 from a Japanese-centric company to a Western-centric one and suddenly more and more Japanese developers started to release their games on Steam (and later on Switch; sometimes even on Xbox), too, to the point where I can get my entire fix of Japanese games on PC and/or Switch now.

And although I've seen several "PC and Switch only" Japanese releases in recent years, the majority is available on PS as well, but it's no longer a must-have system with exclusive access to dozens upon dozens of games or even entire game series.

@AmplifyMJ Is it because of the JK controversy?

@Not_Soos I was surprised to see how it made up the majority of the sales. I guess the target demographic that helps.

@outsider83 yeah, silly, knee jerk reaction but that’s just my opinion of course.

@SBandy1 Thank you for the recommendation.

@AmplifyMJ Co-sign! 🙄

@Dark_Isatari Nah.