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There is a myth that third-party games don’t sell well on Nintendo platforms. In reality, titles like Minecraft, LEGO, Hogwarts Legacy, Stardew Valley, Just Dance and Crash Bandicoot have sold significant numbers on Nintendo Switch. Some more mature games sell well - Doom, The Witcher 3 and GTA all performed strongly on Switch – but the results are typically lower and less consistent. Switch 2’s early third-party support has included Cyberpunk 2077, Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Final Fantasy VII: Remake, which are games more commonly associated with PC, PlayStation and Xbox.

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The big story this week is that Xbox is set to change the pricing on Game Pass. Again. This time the subscription service will receive a price cut, just over six months since its whopping 50% price hike in October last year. The catch? Brand new Call of Duty games could be excluded from the service (or at least will need to be added on). A drop in users was inevitable after that initial hike, but Xbox would have expected a rise in revenue overall. Xbox boss Asha Sharma reportedly told staff that Game Pass had become ‘too expensive’, so presumably it’s lost more players than anticipated. Unfort

Nintendo has some real challenges, certainly in the short-term and particularly in the West. The macro-economic conditions are extremely tough and its release slate is currently lacking. Nintendo has only announced a selection of titles for 2026, and the biggest Switch 2 games on its calendar – Pokémon Winds and Waves – aren’t due until 2027. Combined with high DRAM and storage costs, I can see why investors are spooked by Nintendo at this point in the story. But Nintendo has a strong base for Switch 2 already, and the performance of Pokémon Pokopia shows that players will come out if the game