| VAMatt said: Unlikely, as those games all launch when the system has a small install base. Nintendo games tend to have good legs. But, assuming Nintendo keeps a solid stream of good games coming to the system, it will be difficult for early games to sell millions of copies for years after release. |
Unlike other devices, Nintendo games don't have redundancy in cycles (other than pokemon), so yes they do continue to sell well. It's not like Call of Duty Black ops having to compete with Modern Warefare, Infinite Warfare, or WWII. There is typically only one metroid per system, one main 3d zelda, one main 3d mario adventure game, one Splatoon. Call of duty has to worry about Battlefront, and Battlefield, and medal of honor, etc. There is no competition for Zelda, or Mario, or Splatoon on Nintendo devices because there aren't any games like those on Nintendo devices. Nintendo has brillantly maintained horizontal monopolies on genres of video games on their systems for years, and it is only expanding into new genres (Splatoon is 3rd person shooter and Arms is first person boxing). In fact, the less 3rd party games that come to Nintendo devices, the more their games sell because of their continued monopoly on those genres on their devices. It is brilliant.
