@SBandy Of course people can hold and express their own opinions. I've explicitly (in my role of "comment god") given them the opportunity to express their opinions. I've just allowed them to save a bit of time by posting it up there so they don't have to waste their time (or anyone else's).

"Charts" (particularly charts such as these without real numbers attached to them and particularly when we know that they mostly exclude digital sales) tell us very little either way. Even the Japanese charts that do have numbers tell us very little. We simply don't know the true expectations, sales projections and success criteria from the developers and publishers to know whether a game debuting at "number 1 in the charts" is successful or not.

Take FIFA for instance. I am certain that FIFA has sold a lot of copies on Switch - the charts over time and the retail presence would suggest this to be the case. But EA clearly considers it to be a failure. Of course EA makes more money from FUT than it does from sales of FIFA itself so their success criteria aren't necessarily how many boxed copies they sell.

Conversely Fortnite appears to have been successful on Switch. I can certainly see on my friends list play activity that some players have put in hundreds of hours on Switch. But it would never appear on a best sellers list because it's digital only and has a price of £0.

Trying to extrapolate where Nintendo sits in the marketplace from these charts in 2019 is honestly a waste of time. But still we see, week after week, the same one or two names in the comments to sales charts articles on this site sagely informing us that they've sifted through the tea leafs and telling us that they've read "Nintendoomed" in them.