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| spurgeonryan said: They need a popular game like Wii sports was, but they certainly do not need more motion control anything. |
They just sold a whopping 900k in the month of March and are doing quite well in Japan and seems to be doing well in Europe.
So to the point I'd say -- do they really? Seems to me like it's selling just fine without a Wii Sports and IMO the dividends for releasing a more "serious" system will pay off later because it won't be built on a wishy washy foundation of people who just "sorta/kinda/sometimes/maybe" like video games. The foundation the Switch is building for itself may well be a lot more long lasting because it's built on firmer bedrock.
I would say the combination of a AAA killer app that has modern gameplay done Nintendo style combined with marketing heavily to core male gamers with a product that looks fairly sleek/sexy is what's working for Switch.
Why not continue pushing that approach? It's clearly working.
To be honest even functionally I don't think motion "stand up and play" games work that great on the Switch in portable mode. You have to stand a reasonable distance away from the screen, especially with two players, which makes playing it kinda tough on a tiny 6 inch display. Sitting down and hunching in close to the Switch set down on a table (like how Mario Kart is played) with Joycons in NES config works much, much better for this hardware, so why not make some sports games NES-style? NES hockey and tennis were quite fun as I recall and quite frankly better than Wii Sports.
