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Nintendo’s latest Switch update will change your Eshop chart and keep track of your revenue to prevent shovelware games from appearing frequently.
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Low-priced titles have previously exploited sales charts. The Nintendo update excludes these and highlights quality games.
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This change benefits indie developers while putting low-priced games at a disadvantage. In many cases, AI-driven shovel wear faces disappointment.
It’s mainly good that indie developers can release games on digital platforms, but there are some instances that seem to be making a bit too much of an advantage in some companies.
Since last year, digital storefronts such as the PlayStation Store, Xbox Store, Steam and Nintendo Eshop have sold many shovel wear games. Even today, it’s a bit worrying that platform owners haven’t done anything to curb this. Nintendo doesn’t seem to be stopping these shovelware titles from being sold on eShop, but they just changed these games to avoid seeing them more frequently.
Shovelware and AI Games Sales Exploits Appear on the sales charts Nooked by the latest updates from Nintendo
The other day, Nintendo deployed an update to its switch system that removes important features that will upset fans. As part of that update, Nintendo’s eShop also saw a major change. And to avoid shovel wear appearing on the charts.
Usually, these shovel wear titles are very low prices, and this is said to be due to design. Selling sufficient copies of the game will show you higher on the storefront chart, giving the impression that the game is popular and leads to more sales.
Nintendo has changed the way eShop seller charts are displayed. After updating the system software, instead of counting the number of games on sale over the last 48 hours and using it to rank eShop charts, we now track revenue over the last 72 hours.
This means that ultra-low-priced games will no longer appear on the charts. For example, if a game is sold for just $1, you will need to sell 60 units to match the game that is sold for $60.
Hopefully this change is sufficient to prevent these shovelware titles. These titles are attributed to AI considering how they frequently use generated AI images as part of the game, as they appear on the StoreFront charts.
This latest move by Nintendo might be a good idea for Shovelware titles to prevent trends, but it also posts titles that are not at a major disadvantage and could possibly affect quality indie titles.
