At last count, the Switch library consists of over 2,600 games. Every single one of those titles is on the Switch eShop, which leads to quite a struggle for developers when they try to get noticed. MCVUK talked to Joseph Humfrey, co-founder of Inkle (creators of 80 Days and the upcoming Pendragon) and Mike Rose, founder of No More Robots (publisher of Descenders and Yes Your Grace) about the challenge of catching attention on the Switch eShop. Humfrey had these comments to share.
"The primary mechanism for indies to get featured on the eshop right now isn't really in the eShop at all. It's in the news app Nintendo currently does a popular roundup of each week's releases, and thankfully they chose to feature 80 Days. We believe this was the main way that 80 Days received new players outside of our own marketing efforts. Beyond this we haven't had any help from Nintendo, though it's not very surprising since we're so new to their platform. We entered at a time when indie competition had already become very fierce, and it's an old port rather than a platform exclusive.
The newsfeed is certainly better than nothing for getting noticed, especially since you have the potential to be featured right from the lock screen of every single device worldwide. But it's also pretty transitory - once you've sunken down the chronological list, that's it.

By comparison, when 80 Days first came out on iOS, it was featured prominently b...