| Dulfite said: 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. |
Do they?
What genres would you say Nintendo have monopolies over?
| mountaindewslave said:
Splatoon 2? no flipping way. 10 million will never happen. The game is to niche. Popular niche, yes. But kids who are squids? what did the first one sell, like 5 million? I just don't think it can double that, I think a lot of casuals will look at it and find it odd. Bear in mind part of what propelled Splatoon when it launched was the Wii U had droughts AND there was some media/gaming attention around its strange concept which helped build up attention. Splatoon will not do as well as Mario Odyssey and Zelda. Not even close. |
See, I don't think Splatoon is niche at all. Niche games don't sell nearly 5 million on a failed console. Sure, it's a bit odd, but that's part of its appeal. Being odd doesn't preclude popularity; Pokemon is pretty odd if you think about it.
