{"id":119100,"date":"2020-10-09T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/10\/alwas_legacy_is_another_switch_success_story_blowing_steam_sales_out_of_the_water"},"modified":"2020-10-09T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T16:00:00","slug":"alwas-legacy-is-another-switch-success-story-blowing-steam-sales-out-of-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/09\/alwas-legacy-is-another-switch-success-story-blowing-steam-sales-out-of-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Alwa&#8217;s Legacy Is Another Switch Success Story, Blowing Steam Sales Out Of The Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/711845b99a2de\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/711845b99a2de\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Alwa's Legacy\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/711845b99a2de\/alwas-legacy.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/711845b99a2de\/alwas-legacy.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Alwa's Legacy\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The success stories of indie games landing on the Switch eShop continue to roll in, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/alwas_legacy\"><strong>Alwa&#8217;s Legacy<\/strong><\/a> being the latest to perform significantly better on Nintendo&#8217;s platform than elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Mikael Forslind, Co-founder and Game Designer at developer Elden Pixels, has revealed that Alwa&#8217;s Legacy has sold more copies on Switch in just over one week than it managed in four months on Steam. It&#8217;s an impressive statistic, and one that shows just how hungry Switch players are for new indie delights.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In little more than one week Alwa&#8217;s Legacy has sold more copies on Nintendo Switch than on Steam since the launch 4 months ago. Switch is still a great platform for indies!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gamedev?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gamedev<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/indiedev?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#indiedev<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NintendoSwitch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NintendoSwitch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fCHcUOBrAh\">pic.twitter.com\/fCHcUOBrAh<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Mikael Forslind (@MikaelForslind) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikaelForslind\/status\/1314102069566078979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been hearing tales like this for a long time now, with a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/indie_devs_explain_why_their_games_are_successful_on_nintendo_switch\">developers speaking out<\/a> about the Switch&#8217;s digital store and how game sales regularly compare positively to other platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Still, huge sales are never a guaranteed thing; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/10\/feature_no_more_robots_boss_on_how_switch_eshop_is_pushing_publishers_to_game_the_system\">a recent Nintendo Life feature<\/a>, we spoke to No More Robots&#8217; Mike Rose who explained that poor visibility on the Switch eShop is forcing publishers to apply heavy discounts to get noticed.<\/p>\n<p>Do you find yourself more likely to pick up a new indie title on Switch than any other platform? Do you think that the Switch eShop is a great place to find new games, or would you like to see changes? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The success stories of indie games landing on the Switch eShop continue to roll in, with Alwa&#8217;s Legacy being the latest to perform significantly better on Nintendo&#8217;s platform than elsewhere. Mikael Forslind, Co-founder and Game Designer at developer Elden Pixels, has revealed that Alwa&#8217;s Legacy has sold more copies on Switch in just over one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}