Asriel said: It does when you take into account this holiday season, as well as all of 2017, and even all of 2018. Nintendo titles in general, tend to sell around 33-50% of their yearly numbers during that October-November-December holiday period. I mean, Mario Kart 8 sold an additional 300k from June to September to go from 7.70 to 8 million, imagine what it'll do this holiday! It's passing Super Mario Kart, I'm sure of it now. As for Splatoon, it only needs 430k to reach 5 million, very plausible on an install base where the games on a system that has a very high attach rate, even if it is the Wii U. It's getting a big bump this holiday season, rest assured. As for my 6 million prediction on NSMBU, OK so the verdict is still out on that one, same with 3D World, but I'm willing to give those 2 the benefit of the doubt because it's Mario. If the Switch can somehow get to a $249 price tag, $299 maximum, with a strong lineup of games right out the gate, that 2 million COULD be plausible, it's going to be tough, because Kimishima said they're expecting it to sell that many units through the end of March... when the system is launching IN March, so it'll only have a few weeks to do it. It's certainly possible if the price, lineup, and hype surrounding it is just right, I mean the PS4 was able to do it, but that was during the November, with 3 weeks of data and Black Friday going for it, so I don't know how Nintendo's going to pull of 2 million in just a few weeks in March, the lineup has to be strong and the price for the system is going to have to be steal if it's going to do it in my view, and knowing how much Nintendo HATES to sell at a loss, I doubt it'll be a steal, but we'll see. |
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