 Earlier this week, I reported that the Nintendo Switch had extremely good sales numbers and Nintendo Switch games had extremely good sales numbers thanks to the MPD report which reflected sales from last month just in North America and then Nintendo's own financial update which included their sales worldwide of all of their products through June 30th of this year so things are looking up for Nintendo Switch but what we don't really still know about much of is third parties and how third party games are performing and that's you know probably because there's not a lot of third party games out there but there is one third party game that came that kind of drew a little controversy you see Street Fighter 2 or I should say Ultra Street Fighter 2 to be exact for Nintendo Switch released I think it was like May or March 26 or somewhere in there and when the game came out it cost $40 and this was a point of controversy because there were actually some systems with that exact same game that you could get it for $5 so $40 on Nintendo Switch versus $5 on some other systems out there is insane if you're paying a huge premium to have this game portable and home even if you want to argue oh it's like you're paying $20 because you get it for home console and portable and you just pay it for the $40 however you want to rationalize it it was a pretty insane pricing model for a game that was already so cheap on other hardware well Capcom is extremely happy with the performance of Ultra Street Fighter 2 on Nintendo Switch in fact in their first quarter correspondence to the market's off season in the terms of the launch cycle of major titles I know with a lot of jargon to basically say this is just their financial report essentially for the first quarter Capcom said this Ultra Street Fighter 2 for Nintendo Switch which was released in May 2017 made an excellent start improved to be a smash hit and then you know they go on to talk about Resident Evil 7, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, Monster Hunter Double Cross for Nintendo 3DS contributed to the revenue as well but they specifically said that Ultra Street Fighter 2 for Nintendo Switch was a smash hit smash hit so how well did it sell well naturally they didn't give us any exact sales figures but what they did tell us is how many units they shipped and they shipped 450,000 units for last quarter so if you consider that let's say they sold sold 400,000 of those units or whatever that's really good especially as soon as a smash hit so it's got to be a really high attached rate to unit shipped now it is notable that they do list this as Wii Wii U and Nintendo Switch but they said again they note over and over again Nintendo Switch is where it's at that's what sold blah blah blah they aren't really separating out the hardware as an example they have PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 linked together even though the games didn't come out on both platforms PSP and PS Vita they're just kind of linking all the consoles example Nintendo DS and 3DS so Wii Wii U and Nintendo Switch that you're seeing in this graph on screen doesn't mean anything it's just a grouping of hardware that they potentially might make games for and yeah so Ultra Street Fighter 2 those 450,000 units shipped are for the Nintendo Switch and man smash hit 450,000 units there's a potential they sold 450,000 and what we're seeing on store shelves now are new shipments so I mean there is a potential they sold through their entire shipments for last quarter that is really really really good numbers and it's really good numbers for a number of reasons one because I mean we're talking about Street Fighter 2 okay the game that originally reached ages ago 20, 30 years ago it's been a long time since the since Street Fighter 2 came out and I know they've added characters and updated visuals and did all this stuff for the ultra version and this is like the 20 billion time they've re-released Street Fighter 2 but the fact that despite all that they sold almost 500,000 of these bad boys on Nintendo Switch and we're able to sell it at a premium price of $40 you want to know what the crazy profit margins were on those 450,000 units they shipped that's insane the profit margins are huge especially compared to $5 on other systems so that's just and that's units like shipped so that that doesn't even include digital sales you throw digital sales and they're like energy they're over 500,000 on Switch I mean this is this is awesome um it's awesome for a number of reasons I mean it's not awesome that we obviously got charged $40 for a product that was worth five on most systems but what is awesome about this is the age-old adage that third parties need to see games perform well on Switch in order to bring their newer games to the platform it is something that a lot of us don't like talking about because we don't like being slighted you know when you're getting Ultra Street Fighter 2 a game that was out on other platforms and it's just a re-release of a really really old game um and you're using that as a barometer of success for releasing future games uh makes people upset because it's like okay why don't you give us a current gen game like a game that just released on time on other platforms see all that performs and then judges if you should bring more of them but that's not the way third parties treat the Switch or Nintendo they're like look we're going to give you also to give some credit the 2k and they are giving us the current version of NBA 2k18 with apparently no compromises um obviously it's not going to look quite visually astounding but from what I've been told it's the full version of the game so that's that's excellent but that's like an anomaly I mean we think well we're going to Skyrim that that's one of our big third party releases Rocket League again one of our big third party releases another game that's been on other platforms Minecraft was one of the big releases this year so you kind of get into this feeling that you know you're releasing these older games and seeing how they perform determining the future of you know third party support on the platform well Capcom because Ultra Street Fighter 2 was such a smash hit they had this to say it said with the 450k in the first quarter for Ultra Stripe Street Fighter 2 and because it was above expectations Capcom is now starting to prepare multiple switch version titles now this is important switch version titles not switch exclusive titles switch version titles that means these are games that they have released or will be releasing on other platforms essentially this means that Capcom's all like almost all hands on deck with Nintendo switch Resident Evil 7 is coming to switch we just know that's going to happen now Resident Evil 7 is on you know whatever I mean well okay I guess I can't you can't know for sure that Resident Evil 7 is coming to switch but I have a feeling it's coming to switch um yeah Capcom is going to start heavily supporting the switch and this is before we get the Monster Hunter right Monster Hunter Double Cross next month is going to do huge numbers in Japan and probably not to justify it to come out in the west where it'll probably do decent numbers as well I see that's going to sell probably at least a million units total on switch if they can get enough switches out there to consumers there are over a million switches sold in Japan so maybe every single person in Japan will buy it I have no idea almost everybody in Japan bought Splatoon 2 so it's getting nuts right now the switch is riding high and as much as I hate you know seeing the third parties have to be this way to give us support it worked for Capcom and Capcom is the reason that it has 4 gigs of RAM in the first place because they told Nintendo they want to double the amount well now it feels like Capcom is like okay we we dipped our toes in the water with Street Fighter 2 we know Monster Hunter is going to sell like that's just a given so we dipped our toes in the water with Street Fighter 2 a non Monster Hunter entity and holy crap people on the switch won our games yeah I won't even be surprised that they brought Street Fighter 5 over to to to it at this point I think Capcom is now based on their own words starting to prepare multiple switch version titles switch version as in titles that are on other systems are going to make a switch version of it Capcom's on board this is awesome and for third party support reasons this is great it's a good sign and I'm hoping that Skyrim equally performs well so Bethesda can be like hey look Skyrim is doing really really well we should think about bringing our other titles to this platform our dishonor you know bringing a dishonored collection together so there's a chance of getting dishonored three in the future or you know any other titles they feel inappropriate that they're they have in development right now and I hate thinking that we as switch owners have to buy these older games to prove this to third parties but I mean we just did it and it just worked so we just got to keep doing it so yeah tomorrow I am going into the store to put in a pre-order on Skyrim put a pre-order on NBA 2k18 which I was going to buy anyways I'm also going to probably put a pre-order in on FIFA even though I'm not a believer in it I am a believer that I want there are games EA have like has in their catalog that I want like Madden so I'm going to have to support this FIFA game to ensure that EA sees more demand and I implore you guys if you want these companies or some of your favorite companies you want their games on this platform go support them I mean obviously don't just throw away your money if you're not going to play the game like don't go buy Skyrim if you're not going to play Skyrim I'm going to actually play these games when I buy them but yeah I'm happy Capcom's on board we did it folks we have one major third-party company going full board here with the Nintendo Switch moving forward anyways folks I am Nathaniel Ruffeljantz from Nintendo Prime if you liked this video you know what to do if you disliked this video hit that dislike button subscribe for more and if you already subscribed thank you so much seriously you guys are what make me smile every day make this channel possible and this weekend I'm actually busy at my daughter's my six-year-old daughter's uh end of summer end of summer quote-unquote uh softball tournament so uh I'm hoping that things go well for her and she's in t-ball so I guess I guess called t-ball softball I don't know anyways so I got a pretty busy weekend but you know what I had to get this video out because I'm so happy you know good news for the switch from a third-party company even if it meant we got price gouged to make it happen anyways folks I will catch you in the next one