{"id":15566,"date":"2018-03-21T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/steamworld_dig_2_and_stardew_valley_are_some_of_the_best_selling_indie_games_on_switch"},"modified":"2018-03-21T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T10:25:00","slug":"steamworld-dig-2-and-stardew-valley-are-some-of-the-best-selling-indie-games-on-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/21\/steamworld-dig-2-and-stardew-valley-are-some-of-the-best-selling-indie-games-on-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"SteamWorld Dig 2 And Stardew Valley Are Some Of The Best Selling Indie Games On Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news2.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/steamworld_dig_2_and_stardew_valley_are_the_best_selling_indie_games_on_switch\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/steamworld_dig_2_and_stardew_valley_are_the_best_selling_indie_games_on_switch\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As part of a press briefing at GDC 2018 &#8211; where it was also revealed that the Nintendo Switch eShop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/nintendo_plans_to_increase_discoverability_and_visibility_on_the_switch_eshop\">will receive an update to improve game visibility<\/a> &#8211; Nintendo revealed the top ten selling indie games, and it&#8217;s a who&#8217;s who of independently-developed hits. Here&#8217;s the list (in no particular order):<\/p>\n<p>There are some expected big hitters in there, such as the brilliant Celeste, the ever-engrossing Stardew Valley and the superior sequel, SteamWorld Dig 2. There are also a few surprising entries, such as Fast RMX and NBA Playgrounds (presumably driven by the fact they were released early in Switch&#8217;s life cycle where there were fewer games to choose from on the eShop).<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo also revealed digital third-party unit sales surpassed those of physical units in the North America &#8211; a first for the region. &#8220;This means we&#8217;re setting a very similar course to the likes of EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Take Two &#8211; all those guys are 50-60 of their total revenue is digital,&#8221; comments senior manager for publisher and developer relations Damon Baker. &#8220;It&#8217;s really encouraging to see this resonating with a Nintendo audience as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you make of the list? Are there any indie games you think should have sold more and made the top ten? Share your thoughts below&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a press briefing at GDC 2018 &#8211; where it was also revealed that the Nintendo Switch eShop will receive an update to improve game visibility &#8211; Nintendo revealed the top ten selling indie games, and it&#8217;s a who&#8217;s who of independently-developed hits. Here&#8217;s the list (in no particular order): There are some [&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-15566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566","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=15566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}