StarDoor said:
Okay, I love Animal Crossing as much as the next guy, but don't you think you're setting yourself up for disappointment? The best selling 3DS games have sold 16.20M, 15.95M, and 15.91M. For Animal Crossing to be in the top 2, it would need 15.95M, which is nearly 50% more than what the current best-selling Animal Crossing game has sold. On top of that, Switch is selling better than 3DS in both hardware and software, and will likely have games that sell even more than the top 3DS games. Mario Kart, 2D Mario, and Pokemon have all broken 20, even 30 million before. Pokemon likely won't hit 20M again, but 2D Mario and Mario Kart certianly can, given how much their Wii entries sold. Animal Crossing may get a boost from consolidating the home console and handheld userbases, but then why wouldn't all of Nintendo's other games get boosts of their own? |
Because most other games haven't had a handheld version and a home console version for as long as Animal Crossing has, and because their really wasn't much distinction between the AC games (all were overhead, with similar size world, objective, art style, feature, and graphics). Handheld Zelda and home console Zelda have always felt very different. Handheld pokemon and home console has always felt very different. AC tapped will unify their two markets into one and it will be Tom Nook domination.
