Quite the discrepancy in Switch sales there between Media Create and Famitsu (45k versus 36k).
I'm still amazed looking back at the 3DS launch as to what exactly Nintendo's thought process was. They were going to launch it with Nintendogs + cats .... and then have nothing for 8 months basically except some N64 3D remakes (OoT and Star Fox)?
Like that was the fucking plan? Because there was no way Mario 3D Land was coming out sooner as EAD Tokyo had just wrapped Galaxy 2, it's actually a wonder that game was able to make it for November 2011 as is. They really thought Nintendogs was going to go evergreen and those stupid AR mini-games and the 3D gimmick was going to carry the machine at $250 to record sales. They really fully deserved the ass kicking they received last generation.
With Wii U I think they actually were in the process of sobering up, and thought "well gee we better at least have Mario", but they were panicking so much about the 3DS that they had to rush NSMB2 out for it which in the process kinda cut the legs off NSMBU. And I think they wanted Pikmin 3 and Wonderful 101 in the post launch window, Nintendo just being Nintendo those got delayed.
