This is how the entire entertainment industry works. Why do you think there are so many spinoffs, sequels and reboots in movies and comics and such? Having a known quantity people are aware of makes it easier to sell.
And the fact is, the game's marketing from Nintendo has been hot garbage. Indeed, the whole system's rollout and post-release marketing efforts have been utter dogshit compared to the Wii. It makes no sense to me that Nintendo isn't being nearly as aggressive about pushing their new console as the last one, when motion control was so much easier to promote. They need to be doing a lot more to convince people that the Gamepad is worth the asking price.
Instead, the system is such a non-factor that you have casual buyers who don't even know it's a new system to begin with. As long as that's the case new games outside of their core franchises are going to do much.
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