Why do Nintendo's new Switch IPs get called "failures"?

[Cobretti2]

Pemalite said:

Nogamez said:
I think its mainly because all their New IP's just look a litte odd and niche. Splats a great success but yeah cant really see Arms and 1 2 Switch getting sequels. Even if they did sell moderately well.

I think it's a good thing though.
...Remember games like Mario Kart and Smash were all "risks" once upon a time and ended up becoming console selling franchises.

Gotta' keep testing the waters and if something takes hold and becomes big, then all the power to Nintendo.

Testing the waters is all it is. People shouldn't be afraid to call those tests failures compared to Nintendo's usual franchises.

 

Hell even within franchises, people have called certain Zelda's failures because well they didn't do as well as others in terms of content or something that didn't work quite well, which meant It wasn't up to the magical standard the set with some Zelda games. Next Zelda game has a lot to live up to. It could sell well, but still be considered a failure if it misses the mark.