Can one game still make a difference?

[Frogger]

Bristow9091 said:

Green098 said:

Well, I'd say Zelda Botw on Switch is doing that to some degree, of course not as extreme as others have and that Pokémon on Switch has a big chance to really up swing Switch sales even more than they are already.

 

superchunk said:
I think ZeldaBOTW proves the answer is yes.

See, I acknowledge that Breath of the Wild is a great selling point for the Switch, but personally I wouldn't call it a killer app, simply because I could just as easily buy it for my WiiU too. If it were exclusive to Switch then it'd be a whole different story, but I wouldn't define it as the killer app for anyone that owns/owned a WiiU simply because they already had a place to play it.

What I consider the killer app for the Switch is Super Mario Odyssey, that's the game I bought my Switch for, I actually wasn't planning on getting one until it released, but I was mega lucky and got it cheap as fuck, so y'know, lol :P 

I don't think it not being exclusive disqualifies is. People bought the Switch largely to play Zelda. This includes many Wii U owners. That's what a killer app is - software that almost exclusively pushes the exceptional success of its hardware. BotW did that for Switch. So exclusivity doesn't really matter - theoretically even a multiplat can be a killer app. For example, I'd say COD4 was a 360 killer app.