Nautilus said:
Well, no.It was the combination of a good concept and execution( hardware) with one excellent software(Zelda) that sold the system.The hardware alone would have never sold this much. |
It obviously would have sold less, Zelda is a massive killer app, but it still would have sold a lot without it. Like you said, the concept and execution was there. Zelda was just the gateway, but it could have been a much smaller franchise like F-Zero or something, and it would have still done exceptionally at launch. Same with the PS4. At launch, there weren't a lot of worthwhile games, but people wanted PS4's, so they just dealt with it. Same with the 360.
Most people at launch didn't buy the Switch because they wanted to play Zelda. They wanted to play on the Switch, and got to play Zelda because of it. IMO, if you're buying the Switch in the first 6 months, you just want a Switch, and are using whatever game you get as an excuse to get one. It's not exactly bursting with software yet.
