| Soundwave said: I actually don't think for *sales* purposes Odyessy > 3D Land is necessarily a thing. I think Japan prefers the 3D Land style of more linear Mario than open-world Mario. The holiday lineup for Switch in Japan isn't *that* great. Odyessy is an open world Mario, but that isn't really mega popular in Japan, while Xenoblade is really a C-tier Nintendo IP. Fire Emblem Warriors is alright, but it's a Musuo game, not a real Fire Emblem so that limits it. Splatoon 2 is going to have to do a lot of the heavier lifting I think through the holiday. |
Actualy 3D Land sold just litle more than Mario 64 dispite fact that 3DS has much bigger instal base in Japan compared to N64, not to mantione Mario Sunshine and GC instal base in Japan compared to 23m 3DS owners. But we will see how 3D Land will perform against Mario Oddysey. Also I wouldnt be so sure that MK7 will crash MK8D sales in Japan, MK8D has great sales in Japan, it selling around 10k per week with huge Switch stock issues.
Holiday lineup doesnt need to be great beacuse Switch is far away from meating demand in Japan, Switch for holiday will have Zelda BotW, MK8D, ARMS, Splatoon2, Pokemon Tournament DX, Fire Emblem Wariors, Mario Odyessey and Xenoblade 2, thats killer linuep for evre new Switch owner.
Its funny how you sound like Switch meat demand in Japan and like is normally available, when fact is that Switch still completely sold out every week in Japan regardless numbers Nintendo can ship and offcourse that demand will much higher in holiday season and when Mario Oddysey arives, so there will not be any "hevi lifting" during holiday season, Nintendo will sell evrething they can ship for holiday seaason in any case.
