Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is getting a physical release soon and the team over at FDG Entertainment have been analysing pre-order sales data. Interestingly, the Nintendo Switch physical edition pre-orders are ten times those of the PlayStation 4 physical version. Once again, it highlights that the Nintendo Switch is a great platform for independent developers.
Monster Boy pre-order stats so far: #NintendoSwitch vs #PS4 is 10:1 (!!) @NintendoAmerica is dominating pre-orders by factor 10! :o #MonsterBoyGame #WonderBoy pic.twitter.com/O5Tqpc7v6Y
— FDG Entertainment (@FDG_Games) March 15, 2018
This truly is shaping up to be a return to form along the lines of SNES levels of third party support on Switch.The flood of indi games is absolutely welcome. Fair priced middle ware titles are also great, and offer some wonderful value.
AAA third party titles are coming along, it’s just a bummer that so many that released last year and even some this year still, began development before the Switch was around, let alone known if it would be a success. I suspect E3 will have some big surprises from third parties. I think we’ll even see COD announced for it. They did that with Sonic Mania randomly, didn’t announce it until Nintendo did, so we could see the same for other third party AAA titles.
Im just just glad shovelware and middleware doesnt cost as much as tripple A games. Like they did back then lol.
I haven’t asked before but how many games has been sold overall on both systems, both physical & digital sales? Selling the most physical doesn’t really matter much if PS4 still has the best overall sales thanks to both physical & digital.
Good Point. I don’t think I’ve come across the sales data. I simply don’t care enough about the game to go looking for that… But, very good point.
All this is telling me is that Switch owners are really starving for games to play.
Nope… It’s telling you that the portable factor is giving people an extra incentive to get a Switch version of the game.