Nintendo Switch Has More Than A Whopping 600 Games In Its eShop

It is impossible to say that there are no games on the Nintendo Switch. Not with over 600 titles on the Nintendo Switch eShop and that statistics was from end March 2018.

At Nintendo’s financial brief, Nintendo President, Tatsumi Kimishima, said that the pace of availability of game on the Nintendo Switch eShop outstripped that of the Nintendo 3DS by over 10 times.

A wide variety of publishers of all sizes from regions around the globe including indie developers have been on board since the release of Nintendo Switch, thanks to the early availability of a development environment. The number of titles available for purchase on Nintendo eShop from publishers stood at over 600 titles as of the end of March 2018. This pace of availability on Nintendo eShop is over 10 times the rate seen for the same period after the Nintendo 3DS launch. We see this as an expression of how the new approach of Nintendo Switch is resonating with publishers around the world. And we expect this trend to continue. Indie developers have realized ideas that utilize the special features of the Nintendo Switch hardware, and their unique features of gameplay and operability have won praise from consumers and the media alike.

This was all attributed to the Switch’s unique hardware, which garnered multiple praises from consumers and media alike. You can read the full financial brief transcript here.