![]() This wasn’t the case early on with Apple Arcade - they poured hundred of millions of dollars into its launch titles in 2019, many of which were ‘indie darling’-ish. (And payouts for playtime are dwindling per-game, due to the larger amount of titles on the service.) You allegedly have to be on the App Store for a year to even be considered for this, though. 'Get a small amount of $ for your already-released iOS game to go on it, and fight it out with Solitaire for increasingly crowded bonus payments'. ![]() ![]() 'Get commissioned to do a bigger, often licensed family-friendly game', of which there are a very small number of slots - although some genuinely high-quality, standout winners like Hello Kitty Island Adventure. So for developers, it’s either of the following: There’s just very little opportunity there for the average dev nowadays - especially since ‘ licensing existing premium games over from the App Store ’ became the majority of new platform releases. (Although some titles prompt for reviews in-game, and some don’t…)Īnyhow, we think Neil’s report accurately reflects the state of the service from a dev point of view. So we at least have some idea of how newly added & evergreen games are doing. Apple Arcade (by review count) chart we update monthly. Which is a break-out F2P hit on Switch, but not incredible compared to iOS & Android install numbers?Īnd then, for Fortnite, which is clearly the most-downloaded F2P game on Switch times a lot, we have the following 2018-2020 data from the Epic vs. So - for Palia, we believe the game could have had 1.5-2 million Switch downloads so far. But how about actual download estimates? We have some ideas, but at the very top of the charts, it can be difficult to work out. It’s still hanging in there, too, ahead of its Steam debut later in March. Palia is the recent free-to-play debut standout on Switch: Singularity 6’s cozy life simulation MMO launched on Switch in December 2023, and was the #1 most-downloaded app on Switch multiple times during that month. And Just Dance is the Ubisoft dancing game which is bought standalone in yearly editions, but has a F2P GaaS version too. Pokemon Unite is a TiMi/Tencent arena battler which has most of its downloads on mobile. Just Dance and Pokemon UNITE also make regular Top 10 appearances: these titles don’t get discussed a whole bunch. And Lego Fortnite - searchable under an alias, gives Epic 80% of the Top 5 in the most recent chart! But Epic-owned titles Fall Guys & Rocket League regularly chart. Some brief comments on trends here, as follows:įortnite is incredibly dominant, and other Epic titles do well: given you have to name-search to find F2P Switch games, it’s natural that Fortnite dominates. So here’s what our most recent chart says for top Switch F2P games, as well as a 6 month and 1-year-old chart: eShop is the best place to track general trends, since it can account for 30-40% of the Western sales of many Switch games. You can do this for all games, including F2P ones, if you know where to look. and UK Switch eShop download ranks since March 2022. But GameDiscoverCo has been tracking U.S. ![]() Nintendo and partners’ lack of transparency on numbers: other than a leak/data dump for Fortnite as part of the Epic/Apple lawsuit (below), we’re not sure there have ever been specific public download numbers or ranks for F2P Switch games. And none of the ‘top/discounted’ eShop charts - that drive the most discovery - include free games. Horrible discovery for F2P games on the Switch eShop: whereas Steam has a ‘Free To Play’ hub which is actually listed top of all genres in navigation, Switch’s free to play views are largely obscure subsets of search. There’s likely two main reasons for this: We’re not sure we’ve ever seen an article on F2P games on Nintendo Switch - which is fascinating, since the console has >125 million units sold lifetime.
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