Whose in the trickier position: Nintendo or Xbox?

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friendlyfamine said:

Soundwave said:

I think for Nintendo it goes

A-Team: Mario (2D and 3D), Mario Kart,  Smash Bros., Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Splatoon (top selling staples)

B-Team: Donkey Kong, Luigi's Mansion, Fire Emblem, Kirby, Mario Party, Yoshi, Paper Mario (solid selling IP)

C-Team: Metroid, Pikmin, Kid Icarus, Punch-Out!, Mario Strikers, Wario (Sell OK, support titles, can be a long time between sequels)

D-Team: F-Zero, Star Fox, Pilotwings, Wave Race, Advance Wars (semi-retired IP that Nintendo pulls out of their hat once in a blue moon).

I agree with Rank A, though Splatoon could be one of those IPs similarly to Kirby where each installment sells less gradually. Kirby was once a franchise that broke 5 million units like Splatoon did. Honestly, it may be too early to rank Splatoon. I believe you may have forgotten Zelda.

I agree with everything else too. Metroid is probably B-Team though, I mean the hype for Prime 4 has been unprecedented. I'm tailored to believe this will easily beat the first Prime in terms of sales. Especially with the rise of FP games as of late. Pikmin could be B-Team too. Every game has broke a million units.

I think a game should be able to break 5 mil to be considered "B team" material - especially for a first party dev like Nintendo. Selling 1 million is nice, but probably isn't going to push a lot of hardware.  We need more points of data on splatoon - yeah, it could go up or down.

"A" games need the potential to break 10 million - maybe even more than that.