Switch Is So Popular, It Can Save Entire Studios From Bankruptcy

As further proof of the power of the Nintendo Switch, which developers and publishers will likely latch onto, a studio on the verge of failure was saved after its game was made available on the platform. Originally featured on Steam, the title called Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King hardly made an impact on the gaming community. When it came to the Switch, however, it sold 20 times more units in just three months.

For the longest time, if indie developers wanted their games to sell, Steam was their best option. It wasn’t as if Xbox One or the PS4 didn’t have indie video game marketplaces. They just weren’t as well-developed. With the launch of the Switch, however, things are changing. This has never been more apparent, than the success that the studio Castle Pixel is seeing right now, Dual Shockers notes.

When the developers uploaded their game onto Steam, it only sold about 3,000 units since the start, according to SteamSpy. That is a depressing number of copies sold by any measure. This makes the game’s success on the Switch even more important, however, as it highlights just how lively the platform’s indie scene is.

The 20-fold increase occurred only within the first three months of Blossom Tales being available on the Switch, as well, One Angry Gamer points out. With more units of the portable console being sold every single day and the ecosystem becoming more vibrant, consumption of indie titles is only bound to increase.

At the moment, indie games on the Switch marketplace are selling like hotcakes, which makes it reminiscent to when Steam was all about the independent devs, as well. Only time will tell if this development is a bubble or just due to the inevitable rise in popularity of a platform that is absolutely dominating the hardware and software scene.