Why ARMS Could Be Nintendo's Next Big Hit

[Luke888]

tbone51 said:

Luke888 said:
Interesting reading, I think ARMS definitely has the potential to become a big hit, the major argument I have against it is that Splatoon, while offering a different experience than usual, is still a Shooting game, the most popular genre by far this days, Fighting Games on the other hand are becoming less and less relevant this days meaning that ARMS will need that big WOW factor to become a success. Imho it's going to sell very well but I don't expect anything groundbreaking, 2/3M lifetime seems like a reasonable prediction

 

2 or 3mil is groundbreaking. Because...

-Many games dont even hit 2mil (especially exclusive)

-A new IP (and by nintendo non the less)

-Fighing genre. Literally only like 2 games in the last couple of years sold over 2mil. (Not even pokken/sfv did 2mil)

 

2 or 3 M isn't groundbreaking considering it'll come out near the launch of the system (hence having a longer lifespand than say Splatoon on Wii U which came only 3 years after the launch of the system) and the Switch seems to be selling far better than Wii U, meaning that it'd have a far smaller atach rate.

 

-eh, Nintendo games are a group of their own imho: us Nintendo fan  tend to trust Nintendo when they try doing something new because Nintendo is know for the quality of their games, hence expecting new thing to still be really good;

-same as the previous point;

-in the last couple of years there weren't that many fighting games in the first place, Skull Girls was Indie, Pokkén was on Wii U and was dropped like a rock by Bandai, SFV lacked basic content and was backlashed...