What was the purpose of the Rabbids collab?

[Ljink96]

Mystro-Sama said:

JRPGfan said:
To make a fun game for the Nintendo Switch?
To give nintendo fans a turn based tactical rpg?

And you think Rabbids was absolutely necessary for that? lol

This was something that Ubisoft pitched to Nintendo. It was a project that they wanted to do and have been wanting to do for a long time now. It wasn't until recently that the idea was greenlit by Shigeru Miyamoto. MIyamoto gave them 1 rule to follow and it was, make it unlike any other Mario game that already exists. There's like development videos on youtube too.