Zod95 said:
First 10 weeks: Wii Sports: 3.7M Wii Play: 1.2M Wii Fit: 1.4M Nintendo Land: 1.6M 1-2-Switch: 0.5M
Lifetime: Wii Sports: 82.5M Wii Play: 28.9M Wii Fit: 22.7M Nintendo Land: 4.5M 1-2-Switch: ???
Do you know why Nintendo Land ended up selling just 3x more its initial 10 weeks while the others ended up selling 20x more? Because the others were a novelty and they took some time to educate the market. When Nintendo Land came the market was already educated. It turned out to be a flop, it didn't drive console's sales and Mario games ended up being the best selling WiiU games. 1-2-Switch is even worse. Not only it's selling very, very, VERY poorly (one third of Nintendo Land's horrible performance) but also it's not driving any console's sales. At least Nintendo Land was the best selling title at that time. 1-2-Switch is just another title, like Bomberman. Both will probably finish out of NS's top 10. |
It will have great legs, and it probably cost next to nothing to develop, so it's already making money, I guess. Since it's about to reach 1m sales already. As the Switch userbase grows, so will the sales of 1-2 Switch. And also, the main hardware driver in the launch period was Zelda anyway. It's good that it wasn't 1-2 Switch, because now it is mostly ex gamers who buy the system. They have the cash, they have the interest to buy more games. The casual crowd doesn't.
Another thing is the vocabulary you use. How can sales of 1.6M in the first 10 weeks be horrible? How is even 0.5M poor when the game had low costs? We do not have the production values of either games, so calling it poor or horrible is not possible because of lacking context.
