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Nintendo has changed its eShop charts in an apparent move to hide shovelware | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)

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Following Switch‘s recent software update, Nintendo has changed the way the sales charts on the eShop are calculated. Now, instead of counting the number of games sold over the past 48 hours and using that to rank the charts, it instead charts revenue across the previous 72 hours.

This means that games with rock-bottom pricing will no longer show up on the charts, as a $1 game would have to sell 60 copies to match one $60 game sold.

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[–] fleg@szmer.info 46 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Every time I open up eShop I am astonished how the main place where I am supposed to pay money to Nintendo is literally the slowest, most annoying and unresponsive thing on Switch. I am literally astonished at how they have managed to make it that bad.

[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah. And the lack of a decent option off device. I was trying to check if a first party game was on sale on the Mar 10 day sales and it a nightmare from my phone. If there is a way to just look at “Nintendo” games I could not find it.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago

God help you if you page too far into the results. Eventually it will just run out of memory and crash.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Let's hope they improve it for Switch 2.

[–] Ste41th@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Or they could just ban shit like that from the eshop

[–] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Bring back the Nintendo seal of quality.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 4 days ago

The Nintendo Seal of Quality is literally what saved gaming after Atari shit the bed and shovelware almost destroyed the industry. It's ironic, then, that one of the biggest problems with Nintendo now is a store full of shovelware trash.

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 days ago

If I could just stop seeing ai generated thumbnails of the dozens and dozens of cheap knockoff simulator games that would be great.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Also conveniently means their newly price-bumped first party games will have an easier time competing with cheaper indies. Probably just a coincidence, right?

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

There are somethings we don't talk about in public. 😉

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This means that games with rock-bottom pricing will no longer show up on the charts, as a $1 game would have to sell 60 copies to match one $60 game sold.

I don't see how this is any better. Isn't it just going to put all the stupid AAA titles at the top now? This is going to hurt the indie devs, no?

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Well, they are trying something, whether it's overall better or not is yet to be seen. SwitchUp recently did a video about it, I haven't watched it yet, but I think they discussed the indie aspect in that, not sure what their conclusion was though.

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah, so Hentai Furry Tangrams won't pop up on the front page anymore? But what will my family laugh at while browsing the eShop?

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Nintendo, taking away all the fun!

[–] SteakSneak@retrolemmy.com 2 points 4 days ago

About time they did this.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I have a switch and a ps4 and the price difference is absurd. Also I pay for ps plus and get a lot of great games for free, not only "vintage games", besides the library is much bigger.

It's been a while since I last bought a switch game but with the new switch and price bumps I'll not be updating. Nintendo has to be mindful of the world's economy

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

If we talk about third party games, they are generally priced the same. Some games have slightly higher price at Switch, but I have also seen games that have slightly higher price on PS, and most game have very similar "lowest sale price".

You are completely right about the first party games, and the PS+ though.