The retro inspired Bloodstained: Curse Of The Moon which launched recently on the Nintendo Switch has done tremendously well on the platform. In total 100K copies were shifted across multiple platforms, but the game sold the most on the Nintendo Switch. Inti Creates has revealed that 56% of sales of the game were for Nintendo’s latest system.
That is pretty good news for the switch.
Companies can’t skip the switch with their games now can they.
Yeah exactly. The switch, as long as these indie game sales keep on coming along for both big and small titles, could be the saviour of the industry itself with how helpful it is to indies.
Now let’s hope the main game is just as good, as I recently have just started playing castlevania symphony of the night and I’m loving it so far!!
Wait this released already? How did I miss it?
Its a different game.
Maybe you think this is Ritual of the night but also this game is coming to the Switch
I bet the fact that this being a spin off to an upcoming spiritual successor to Castlevania and selling extremely well as a spin off to an unreleased game is probably the reason Konami, all of a sudden, decided to announce two Switch games, one being an “action adventure” (probably that Castlevania game recently announced for mobile, and the other being a collection of some sort (most likely a Castlevania collection).
This spin off is ALSO a spiritual successor to Castlevania, just to make it clear….
Only reason why I phrased it that way is due to Bloodstained Ritual of the Night being announced first and Curse of the Moon being announced afterwards as a prequel rather than the original spiritual successor.
Well, RotN is an spiritual successor to Igavanias while this is an spiritual successor to NESvanias, they are two different style of games, so they are both “original” spiritual successors of different Vania types.
This game is awesome and it feels to play a Castelvania game on the NES
Inticreates knows how to make an 8-bit game still cool today
*Inti Creates
Now if only I can get my download code.
if you’re a backer you have to get you code from the backer site where they put up the survey asking which platform you would prefer your backer game on. They already sent out the codes for Steam, Switch, and I checked last night and the ps4 codes are up now for backers.
For US backers that is, I don’t know if it’s up for the EU yet. I should have said that first.
Yeah, it’s not available in EU yet. We only got a Steam code for a temporary version so far.
Nintendo Switch is clearly where the audience for this type of games is. So no big surprise there.
Exactly
Is the 100k sales or are they counting backer rewards?
Nice side dish this game, now I am waiting for the main game.
This just keeps being the story for Switch and indies. It is exciting to say the least.