UK Charts Reveal That Only 2% Of NBA 2K19's Launch Sales Were On Switch

And here's a big part of the reason: https://twitter.com/olrodlegacy/status/1039589881893273607

Another reason is probably the shambles of 2018 when it was released

Good. Keep this money-grubbing trash off the Switch, let's have at least one platform that's mostly free of these scummy practices.

Well now

If you want to be successful on a Nintendo system you need to take risk and give creative freedom to your game designer. It's a different market than the other. You can't release yearly sequels without adding something in the gameplay department.

I like to think its because most Switch owners aren’t stupid enough to fall for 2K’s money vacuuming algorithm disguised as a basketball game.

Bought it on the switch yesterday and really enjoying it so far. Really cool to have a game like that on a handheld. I know it's n not going to set the works on fire but I hope it does enough for then to continue Switch releases!

@olrodlegacy Interesting. I wonder how far whatever the deal that made that happen goes.

@bitleman its a basketball sim? How much more can you add gameplay wise in a basketball sim?

Seeing the last one dropped by 50% in 2 months last time and is about twenty quid now I’m not surprised. I wonder how many Nintendo fans will only buy one edition and be happy with it- the same goes for FIFA. I know that’s what I’ve done.

Man, that’s kinda sad. I’m a huge sports game fan so having the Switch as my console of choice has been tough. NBA 2K19 is great on Switch. So much more polished than last year’s game. Hopefully people buy it so we can continue to get yearly releases. It’s the one of the only sports games on switch outside of FIFA so I’d hate to see it go away. These types of sales #s are why we can’t get NHL, Madden, NBA Live, or a real baseball game on the Switch.

I strictly avoid any title touched by a donation / microtransaction poison, not only shiz free-2-play but AAA games too.

@olrodlegacy wow, didn't know that!
It's really bad for the Switch...after I can already see the execs from 2K saying that their games don't sell on Switch...
BTW, I retweeted that to 2K...wonder if they gonna reply.

@tourjeff Its the UK sales market. Sales are probably in line with last year's game. I really wouldn't worry about it.

Who in the UK buys basketball games anyway? The mere fact Mario Kart is in the top five shows this must have been a slow week.

@kobashi100 Well, they might well be in line from last year's number, however, 2K should expect the sales to go up and not to stay flat as the brand is now known thanks to 2018 version released on the platform.
The point that has been raised is the fact that ad materials from outlets do not show the cover or say that the game is available on the Switch which obviously doesn't help the sales.

Awareness just isn't pushed hard enough, and being gone as a series for many years doesn't help Switch"s unique market either. I used to play sports games more often in the past on Nintendo systems, but once EA and the like left with certain sports, I filled the void with playing other games/genres. It would take time and effort on the Switch to change this, and I doubt these devs will invest much to do so.

@olrodlegacy @ryancraddock

As good as the game might be - there is a real stigma with the physical version - for those who buy digital - fine - but for the people who would have bought it at retail/physical, the download required is a real turn off (not just for space, but that as well)... on principal the whole point of the physical cartridge is so that the game is on the physical cartridge... I buy at retail for this reason and if they are going with this strategy I’m happy to give my money over to other games. I say this from experience with the fact that myself as well as at least 3 other friends have opted not buy this because we all seem to like having the physical game - Plus it seems to be a common comment among forums as well, so we’re not alone.

They saved some dollars on the cartridge but I wonder how many they lost because of an all digital game.

Plain and simply people are keeping their distance on this release because of what went wrong with the last one...just a very blatent money grab and no effort was put into it....fool me once

Spider-Man, Spider-Man
Takes the spot that Mario can't

@tourjeff I understand that but like I said it's the UK market. Never gonna be a big seller here. If the US market slides then yes it will be a worry

It's the same in the Netherlands with Fifa 19 promotion, sadly...
https://www.gamemania.nl/info/fifa19

Somewhere in between the lines you see Switch mentioned, but this isn't shown on the images!...

Given the companies track record is what now 2 for 2 with broken horribly mangled with bugs physical game releases so far? Mass game media and fan response with all sorts of mockery, insults, memes and more is it any surprise? They ruined their reputation in the market fouling up the NBA and WWE licenses badly. Then they pulled the WWE game for this year which pissed off more people. Finally you throw in some scummy ad practices noted in the first post of comments here and is it any wonder?

Add in the fact as it was pointed out it's highest end priced with a nice pile of microtransactions to really pick your budget clean and they're perhaps lucky they found 2000 suckers or so to buy it.

If they care to even make a dent at this rate you'd need to see something on the level of an apology. Not that I think they'd do a direct apology, but if they were to drop the price, make the best game possible out of the box, and perhaps even curtail some/all of the micro transactions they'd perhaps turn it around.

UK is not the market for it, but it still does not take away the fact that just 2% of the total was sold on the Switch.
It's a good game and needed third party support, even with the games micro-transaction's. I doubt the next version will be released on the console with poor sales like these....

@BANJO For them to not pay the extra for the larger cartridge and make the game a digital download even if you buy the physical game, does not help.

Would getting rid of that micro-transaction nightmare be such a bad thing ?

I'm pretty sure a Mario Basketball (even a small 30$ eshop exclusive) would destroy everything.

@BANJO so if the sales are the same as last year in the UK why was 2K19 released on switch. Stop looking @ the UK market and making silly predictions like this now means 2K will drop support.

I thought people would have learned to stop this considering they said the same for other titles when looking @ UK sales

@kobashi100 I did say the UK is not the market for this. I admit I jumped the gun with my comment on 2k support being dropped. I await to see the US sales with great interest.....

Nintendo fans are so delusional.

Third party games just don't sell well on Nintendo consoles. Stop all the dumb excuses.

Plus the sports games suck on Switch. NBA 2K19 is 30fps and has horrible graphics with crowd pop ins.
Cut it out.

@BigKing feel happy you got your daily anti Nintendo post off you're chest.

@Krull
"Who in the UK buys basketball games anyway?" UK basketball fans who own a PS4 or Xbox One apparently.

The thing that "shocks" me the most is not the 2% sells on Switch.

It's more when I look at several charts, it's still the same games for the Switch while every months it's new games on PS4/ONE.

Since more than a year, Zelda, Mario Odyssey, MarioKart 8 etc... The other platforms always get new Stuffs, Spiderman, Tomb Raider, Dragon Quest XI etc...

This is sad because I experienced a hole of 7 months of "nothing to play" between Xeno2 and Octopath, and now the same thing again until Yoshi... People can say what they want but you need a PS4 or a strong PC if you want to play new games... :/

Love how 2K Games doesn't market the game and leave it all to Nintendo to market a game they didn't make. And once it fails and they don't release it next year they'll blame the fans.

Double standards at it's finest.

30 fps while the other versions are 60. Enough said.

Especially in the UK, the "cool" and "trendy" games enter ALWAYS in the Top 3, no matter how good or bad they are. That's especially true for PS4 games.

@MrBlacky
So what kind of games get into the top 3 in your country's chart? Uncool ones?

@Haywired
I donˋt think we have videogame charts in my country.🤔

@MrBlacky
Oh right well, I think the cool, trendy games tend to chart high regardless of the country. It's not just a UK thing.

Didn't the Labo Vehicle Kit release last week?

@Haywired Ah, of course. Silly me! I think @NintendoFan4Lyf said it better than I did. Basketball and Switch are both pretty niche markets in the UK - though clearly both have fans here - so it's not that surprising that the overlap is so small. British players long ago gave up on Nintendo as a platform for licensed sports games, and hence they will mostly all have PS4s and Xboxes. It'll be a while yet before Nintendo wins back that market, if ever.

Really enjoying the game so far. I've never spent money on micro transactions and they've never been the reason I've stopped playing a game. Don't see why there's so much hatred towards games that have them. Just don't spend money on them.

@Haywired
Well, to my defence I said "especially" and not "just".

I think the type of person who would buy this game is unlikely to have a switch in the uk

I really am not surprised.

It's an enormous game if you should wish to download, it's not the most ideal version, and it really isn't a property that originated as a game, does much of anything interesting with the game medium, of concerns itself with presenting the player with surprising characters, setting, or situations.

To many Switch owners I would imagine this type of game to look about as riveting as Farming Simulator.

@blockfight my issue with microtransactions is how games can be designed around getting people to buy them. This can be by imposing a grind, splitting the userbase or encouraging a have/have not scenario. Being optional is the great "cure all" when developers are pushed on their inclusion. However, when games have to be rebalanced when these features are taken out, it speaks volumes on how they were actually worked into the game as a package.

The reason for the low sales is quite clear. When you buy a physical copy of the game you don't receive a physical copy of the game...

@Krull
Yeah and I guess the fact that people (I think) tend to see the Switch more as a handheld and sports sims always sell a lot more on the high end, powerful home consoles than handhelds (perhaps not to this extreme but a bit like comparing sales of the PS3/360 version of the latest sports game to the DS version).

This is why a lot of games on Switch add Mario and other Nintendo icons. To get proper attention of the fans...

Shame

Maybe because people don't want to download 30GB of data. 30GB of data for a portable device significantly adds to the overall cost.

I hope all of these partial-cartridge games flop so that publishers get the message. If that means missing out on certain games, then so bloody be it.

Shame 2K don’t go back into NHL franchise. I would say one buy that for Switch

Who cares? UK isn't known for being Basketball fans

We all know why. The casuals play ps4 and Xbox over here and are none the wiser as to the in game purchases required to 'play' games like this. Why do you think FIFA keeps selling every year? Casuals don't care and probably think it's the norm because they don't research these things. Funny how the 'hardcore' platforms are the biggest reason these disgusting business models continue to thrive. Just look at GTA for example

@Cobalt Long sellers keep selling and bad games disappear from charts on all system. On PS4 and Switch GTA5 and Mariokart stay in the charts while Octopath traveller and Dragon Quest 11 dropped like flies.

@Shellcore Exactly this. These games are designed to be overly grind heavy in order to push people towards in game currency. Which means it's intentionally done based on a mobile free to play model that's just wrapped around a £50 entry fee. I don't know how far it's going to go before people wake the hell up and say enough is enough. How much is the gold edition for this game? based on last year I'd say £120. That's criminal when all the same content is also on the base game,only you can't get to it

@BANJO it deserves to have poor sales regardless of what platform it's on. These business models shouldn't be supported. They want to load the game full of microtransactions and lock content behind in game currency, then it should be a free to play game and not charge you a £50 entry fee. I honestly thought people would be taking more of a firm stand on crap like this with the whole Battlefront 2 fiasco from last year. But it seems people have more money than sense or just no principals to not want to be ripped off

@bitleman said :" Long sellers keep selling and bad games disappear from charts on all system."

So, you mean that Octopath Traveler, Dragon Quest XI, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 etc... are bad games then ?

For me, the reason I wont be buying FIFA 19 or NBA2K19 is that I already have FIFA 18 and NBA2K18 on Switch. I really don't see the point in laying down another £100 for the same game (with some minor updates). I never see the point of buying the latest Sports games year in, year out. I might get FIFA 20 or NBA2K20 when its out, but not going to dip every year.

@BladedKnight I’m actually playing through Spider-Man right now and so far I’m not sure my heart can take the story in this game. Everything better end up happy! What did you think of Spider-Man overall?

@Cobalt What’s wrong with XBox?

@PlayedNSlayed I agree the Microtransactions along with the hefty upfront fee put me off. The massive download required to play just finished off any chance of me buying it at launch. Regardless of all this however, I will pick it up when it's cheap, say £10 - £12 in about a year and will spend no money on the microtransactions as the basic game itself and portability make it worthwhile.

@SimplyCinnamon53
Nothing's wrong... Just that I don't own one, so I can't really talk about it, that's all...

Ouch... Not like anything else has done well. MHGU fell out of the top 50 in a week - and where is LABO Car kit?

NBA2K sold same numbers as last year - so much for the micro transaction "controversy" (It be $20 by Christmas regardless). FIFA is almost here, so skipped it.

Spider Man killed TR, A shame - they should have held it back. With SM, TR and 2K out - actually thought DQXI would take a bigger hit.

Just want Valkyria4 not to get lost in the AAA mix - The release schedule on PS4 is crazy right now 🙄

@Agramonte
Yeah it seems the Labo Vehicle Kit didn't even get into the Top 40, and entered the Switch format chart at no.17... Ouch indeed...

@Haywired Woof... I noticed it had zero hype compared to the first round. Never a good sign.

@BigKing
I hate to tell you this Bucko, but a lot of 3rd party games have been doing phenomenal on Switch, even outselling other versions. That's a verifyiable fact. Of course, anti Nintendo fanboys are so delusional they refuse to acknowledge this.

Some games dont sell as well, mainly realistic sports games and sims. And so what. Don't stroke your ego too hard over what other people do according to their taste and preference.

B-but Nintendo diehards keep saying that everything sells on Switch... My life's been a lie! D:

Though, in all seriousness, that's kinda sad. Especially that the purported messiah of gaming, the revolutionary original cardboard kaiser, didn't even appear on the charts despite having a new set released.

Cya
Raziel-chan

@Agramonte MH on Switch was just a port of a 3DS game, and LABO has never set the charts on fire. Its no surprise that these didn't hold up to the brand new shiny AAAs on other platforms

(I still cannot figure out who is still buying so many copies of GTA though!)

@Agramonte
MHGU was an expansion of an already released game in a post-World world.

Not sure what "dropped out of the top 50 in a week" is supposed to mean. Most games drop out of the top 50 in a week. Even Dragon Quest XI has pretty much dropped out. Wolfenstein 2 dropped out. Doom dropped out. Xenoblade 2 dropped out. Lots of games drop out. Even top 150 is pulling consistent sales. Doesnt need to be top 50 to magically sell well.

I think its fair to say MHGU has exceeded expectations. And you'll see Capcom say as much. If you thought it was gonna top charts like World just because it had MH in the name Idk what to tell ya

Different games, different expectations. One has nothing to do with the other. Im surprised how many months MHGU dominated the top 100, 50 and 10 before release. It pulled more than its share. Watch it break 1 million sold in the west like MH4U did.

edit
Brain fart, you're talking about UK charts, which obviously the article is UK based.

Idk about UK. Cant speak to the preferences of the tiny market. Think its safe to say Nintendo is not strong in UK, and given the small percentage it contributes to global sales.

I'd chalk it up to all Switch sales will be questionable in the UK. But globally is a much different story.

Last year's FIFA 18 saw 1% of its launch sales come from the Switch version. NBA 2K18 was an eShop exclusive for a month, but I'd bet its percentage of total launch sales on the eShop were just as small in the UK.

Expect the Switch version of all sports sims to only ever account for 1-3% of total sales, especially when said the game is barely marketed (and in the case of NBA 2K, unplayable without a mostly-empty 32 GB SD card in hand).

This was the case with with the dominant Wii and DS, so I don't know why people think the Switch would be any different.

@Shellcore I see your points but personally i find the game fun to play and that's the bottom line for me. Lots of different game modes to play as well as online play with friends which don't require any hidden charges. People are missing out on a good sports sim if this is their reason for not buying it.

@Mando44646 said "MH on Switch was just a port of a 3DS game"

Yeah, this is the problem since the launch of the Switch :

Ports, ports, ports... The last Nintendo Direct has shown 20 ports for 34 games displayed during 35mn.

So, what to conclude ?

@kobashi100 I'm not anti-Nintendo. I'm anti delusional Nintendo fanboys.

@JaxonH Which Switch ports outsold the PS4/Xbox versions, not counting indie games? The only one I can think of is Puyo Puyo Tetris. Maybe Just Dance 2018

@Cobalt Ok, I was just curious if you hated it as much as I do 😂

Wasn't the digital version selling only a $99 bundle at first? (as opposed to the regular $60). Could this have scared away players? Was this the case with the other consoles too?

@BladedKnight I’m pretty far, (it’s not really a spoiler) I finished the Grand Central Station l level so I think I’m far but not exactly sure. Loving it so far though, I’ve had the Spider Drone suit power and it’s super helpful. I’ll try to get the iron spider when I unlock it though!

@BigKing Indies. Indies are way outselling on switch. There are hardly any games on switch that are 3rd party and not Indies, so it's logical, if not as inspiring as major 3rd party releases doing well.

@BigKing
Resident Evil Revelations Collection outsold both PS4 and X1 combined. DB Xenoverse 2 outsold X1 and maybe even PS4 version by now. NIS said every game theyve sold has had preorder numbers in favor of Switch 2:1 over PS4. Theres example after example.

And a game doesn't even need to outsell other versions to do well. So that statement was way off.

Some do better, some dont. But considering the smaller install base, even doing half the numbers of other systems is impressive enough. That said, different groups have different tastes. But there are plenty of games the fanbase does like and does buy in sufficient quantity. Almost every 3rd party game has exceeded expectations (not just indies). There will always be certain types of games that dont play well to an audience though.

Labo Vehicle Kit selling only slightly more than the 5 month-old Variety Kit at launch is not good at all.

@Cobalt "So, you mean that Octopath Traveler, Dragon Quest XI, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 etc... are bad games then ?"

Yep that's exactly what I said. Nintendo and Sony die hards fanatics keep telling us japanese games are doing great but they really don't. The japanese industry is collapsing under the pressure of the superior american AAA Sony games. It's delicious to see the tears of delusional people like you complaining why there are so few japanese new releases and only ports. Well it's simple, the japanese industry is getting crushed by the superior american AAA games thanks to Sony taking control of the market.

@bitleman except Japanese games sell record-breaking numbers. Octopath did. FFXV did. Persona 5 was Atlus' best-selling game ever. Xenoblade 2 did. All of the Fire Emblem 3DS games did. Nier Automata did. I could keep going on and on.

The Japanese industry is more successful now than it has been in a decade or more. Especially since Western developers are so freaking boring and uncreative with their sportsballing, CoDs, and Destiny clones year after year. Aside from Sony and a handful of others, there's a total lack of anything new or creative from Western publishers

@westman98
No, its not.

Im kinda glad though. Vote with our wallets. If people aren't interestes, so be it.

Lots of games out right now though across all systems. Im occupied with MHGU, Xenoblade 2 Torna and FFXV Pocket, Bastion, and DB Fighter Z and Valkyria Chronicles 4 about to drop. Only so much people can play at once.

Still, I noticed lower preorder rankings for the sports games and VC4 as well (on all platforms, Switch and PS4 in the 200-400 range with X1 at like 3,000-5,000).

I think people are overstretched. And LABO isn't priority. NBA 2K18 really overdid the MTX too, I imagine people aren't gonna be quick to dive into 19. I know I didn't. Not after last year, with huge downloads, huge save files, bugs galore at launch and MTX all over.

I just want to know...

Who the hell keeps buying GTA 5 games here? Every week for 4 weeks that game has come in at 3rd... HOW?!?!?!? 😂😂

@bitleman really?

Because Sony doesn't have a single game that has achieved 10m sales while Nintendo has 4... All developed by Japanese devs.

So lets look at the top 5 Sony selling games.... Only ONE is developed by American developers... One is Capcom (Japan) and the other 3 are European....

So much for your theory that American AAA games are taking over the industry when out of 10 top selling games this generation... One ... ONLY ONE is from the States 😂😂😂.

That's a shame. I'd have been interested myself if the download wasn't so large.

@Nintendo4Sonic
Indeed. And those that are keen on this are likely to own a system more suited for it.

@BigKing
There are a good amount of Switch game's that have outsold their PS4/XBO counterparts.

But there are also a large amount of Switch game's that have not outsold their PS4/XBO counterparts. Sports sims like FIFA and NBA 2K fall into this category.

@bitleman

That's true that Zelda Breath of The Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, MarioKart 8, Detroit Becomes Human etc... are Americans AAA... LOL

With Bitleman, we're gonna make America great again !

It was £85 when I checked it out on the eshop!? That was a large factor in me giving it the two fingers

@Razer GTA is bundled with consoles and counts as a sale.

Octopath Traveler 1st week sales: ~10,000
Octopath Traveler 2nd week sales: ~4,000

Dragon Quest XI PS4 1st week sales: ~10,000
Dragon Quest XI PS4 2nd week sales: ~1,400

@BigKing "crowd pop ins"?

@kobashi100 ahhhh that makes more sense now.

Another reason why bundled games should not count as individual sales.

Ty for heads up...

@westman98 : Thanks for that FIFA sales update. It makes sense that the UK market is not that into 3rd party sports games on Switch..yet.

And the hatred for NBA 2K is strong on this board. I'm not sure if the people complaining realize how good this game is. At 30 fps or 60 fps, the actual gameplay requires skill and thought. The My League Franchise mode is impressive. In 2k18, you have the ability to play 80 seasons in Franchise mode. 80 full seasons. That alone justifies the game's price. The mode that involves microtransactions, I've never played. It's an RPG mode. Who wants to play that? I know 2K19 has a new MyTeam mode that was described by the developer a few weeks ago in depth on Operation Sports. And it's another mode you could play forever. The microtransaction stuff can be easily ignored. Nintendo Life unfortunately posts so little about 3rd party games, its embarrassing. 2k has been releasing developer interviews and videos the last month, and I don't recall seeing one article about it.

@Krull People with good taste in sports? lol

@bitleman It appears the delusional one is you. Did you see how Japan fared last year? Most of the popular games last year were Japanese. Why are you on a Nintendo site if you think Japanese developers are so inferior?

@NIN10DOXD Most of the top 10 best selling games in the US were not from japan. And NBA2K was the 2nd best selling game of 2017 in the US.

Also, most people in the US (outside mobile phones) play on PC. Best Japanese game so far on Steam has been Monster Hunter World (EVER!). That is not even on Switch.

Err, most Indies are not from Japan. Seeing what been selling on Switch as of late. You have no need to like Japanese games to be on a Nintendo site.

@Agramonte Best-selling and highest rated are two different measures. Also, until recently, console has still been far and away the preferred medium in the United States. Most causal gamers could care less about PC or highly reviewed games. By the logic of @bitleman FIFA is a better game than most other franchises however the actual reviews would contradict sales numbers in comparison to series like the Legend of Zelda. I f we are going off solely sales figure, EA and Activision would actually be considered good publishers despite how much hardcore gamers hate them.

@Agramonte Also Nintendo is a a Japanese gaming company so why follow the thing you dislike?

After that steaming pile of garbage they released for WWE on Switch, I will never give this company money again. Screw them.

@NIN10DOXD You said "popular"... as in people want. And if now we moving to "Highest Rated" - people need to go buy a PS4 to play God of War. That is "better rated" than anything else on Switch this year.

But in the end that is not how it works either way. People buy what they like. It be Call Of Duty or Hollow Knight... the Data is still the same. Mostly - Not from Japan.

Sure I have a PS4/Switch because I like AAA jRPGs and Anime games. But I know I am in the minority in the US. I just want DQXI, valky4 and Xeno2 to make a buck. And maybe I'll get ColdSteel 2 & 3 (in the see of Battlefront) someday on one of them.

@NIN10DOXD Because only fanboys go by the name on the gadget box (that is actually made in China).

The person who likes Indies and some F2P games will gravitate to a Switch. And a place like NL tells them what Epic and Team Cherry are doing on it.

And I am not saying either 2 post as a knock on Switch or Nintendo. It is a good thing people who do not care about Nintendo (or Japanese games) buying the Switch. Regardless, The little guy still sells

@JaxonH Revelations, that's a 3DS port, nobody cared about that on the PS4. You know why? Because they have Resident Evil 7 and everything before that.

Let's talk about the games with a bigger profile: Doom? Wolfenstein 2? LA Noir? Skyrim? NBA 2K? FIFA?

There is a reason why third party developers are reluctant to get on board. Even Ubisoft is ignoring the Switch besides some family friendly games.

It was the same on the Wii U. And the Wii. And the Gamecube. And the N64.

@BigKing
Sorry, even Bethesda said their games are exceeding expectations.

Your wishful thinking doesn't mesh with reality.

And RE Revelations released before RE7, so you can't go making excuses.

Look at half the games on Amazon. Switch is charting higher than PS4 or X1 the majority of the time. Wake up kid. Get off the console war front lines trying to use propaganda as ammo.

We're here to enjoy and talk about games, not listen to kids preach how bad 3rd party games sell across the board, which is 100% fabricated nonsense. Some genres don't sell nearly as well. That's true on any console. But don't sit here and try to deny reality guy. Practically every single 3rd party game on Switch has met or exceeded expecations, barring a few exceptions. Id say sports sims will definitely continue to be one of those exceptions. And there's nothing wrong with that. Seems Nintendo fans are alot smarter than some, by avoiding these microtransaction ridden games. Can't blame anyone for that.

@BigKing Exactly. Who cares about rehash when you have everything else under the sun. This is how FF Pocket Edition is #1 on the eShop.

There is a big new release each week on PS4 in Sept and the FIFA 19 DEMO crashed PSN... who on earth is playing $29 port of a Mobile Game on a PS4... You can even play the real one for $19!

Fifa 18 for NS was great. NBA 2K18 (after all patches) was great too. But the truth is: At least for now, we are still in 2018, and it feels that we can stick with with these versions until next year. That's it. I have both games and I'm planning to buy Fifa 19 and NBA 2k19, but not now. I think that at least most of the people will wait for the next NBA Season in one month.

This doesn't surprise me considering how it is the UK charts. The UK has never really cared for basketball, it's a football (aka soccer) country.

@Bunkerneath As a big basketball fan myself, I am passing on 2K19 until it goes on sale because of how 2K18 was a complete mess for months when I bought it back when it launched.

@MrGawain i bought last years fifa and 2k18 on the switch, i wont be rebuying eiuther on the switch , already bouth 2k19 on the ps4 cause i cant play in handheld on the switch those joycons kill my hands after about 15 mins. to small for my huge hands i guess. but i never buy fifa or madden in following years its every other.

Seems like Switch owners are not big on annual games. Can't blame them.

Still a basketball game no3 on UK is impressive. Its far more popular as a sport to southern and eastern Europe

@Cobalt Funny comment, considering PS4 was released without games for about 2 years after Bloodborne come out. PS4 is the worst console to buy. The best choice is PC with a 3DS or Nintendo Switch. You also forgot Switch released Mario Tennis Aces and Party. They are not from the main story but fun, but I agree this year for NS was empty of games.