friendlyfamine said:
Read again. I said a lot of the 3DS' eventual success derived off affordability, which meant games weren't as big a factor. The Switch doesn't have that advantage. Therefore, games are more important for the Switch. But the only system seller I'm foreseeing is Pokemon. Fire Emblem, Kirby, Yoshi...they don't really sell systems. |
This is what I don't understand about this argument ... people make it all the time. Yet if you look at the 3DS, the only system seller for it was Pokemon, Zelda remasters, Mario games ... and Monster Hunter in a very limited market? People say that the fault of the Switch is it's limited system sellers going into 2018 ... but the big system sellers of the 3ds were not enough to make up the huge 65 million install base it has, and beyond that the 3ds has had multiple years where it's biggest title was just one big nintendo game and not much else that was considered a "traditional" system seller, so obviously smaller more niche titles still sell Nintendo systems. In fact, most of the traditional system sellers the 3ds had were released between 2011 and 2013 (First Pokemon, two mario titles, a zelda remaster, a new zelda game, a mario kart game, an animal crossing etc) yet the 3ds has done exceptionally well every year after 2013. I honestly think Fire Emblem is becoming a big system seller at this point. If the 3ds proves anything, it's that a lot of unexpected hits can sell units as well. The Switch already has a lot of it's game library covered in the first year : A Zelda game, a Mario Kart game, a Splatoon game, a new IP, a Mario game, a Xenoblade game, a Musuo Crossover game. At this point if Nintendo just released two big titles in 2018, it still would sell well and they could still make a return in 2019. Obviously as a gamer I hope that they have more than 1 big system seller, but I don't see a limited amount of super popular games killing the system in 2018.
