Switch Is Succeeding Without Blue Ocean Casuals, Nintendo Should Not Forget This.

[zorg1000]

fatslob-:O said:

zorg1000 said:

Yes Zelda is 15, MK is 16 and Splatoon is outside of the top 20 but i fail to see how you can come to any conclusion about legs based on that.

Again, they are exclusives on an install base roughly 1/15 the size of PS4+XBO, Nintendo games dont include digital sales on NPD and almost every game ahead of them is a far more recent release.

As for GTA, its the best selling non-bundled retail game of all time in the US and has just about the best legs in history so using that as a metric for legs is about as dumb as it gets.

 

Thats why i said your post is garbage and nonsense, because you are making false conclusions based on nothing.

Means that their short term performance is mediocre ... (highly doubtful the outlook for the long term is any better since interest in software is almost always bound to decrease in the long term)

I don't know how you don't see Splatoon 2 getting kicked off of NPD top 20 after 3 months not a concern when that is an example of what is described as front loaded ... (even Tom Clancy games managed better legs than Splatoon 2 in NA months before the latter released) 

And correction FYI, I am comparing recently released Zelda and Mario Kart up against a 4 YEAR OLD GTA V ... (It says a lot about the "famed legs" of Nintendo IPs when it's falling behind a very old game even if it's as iconic as GTA V and it's also barely keeping with Ubisoft games) 

Yes, almost every game in the NPD's top 20 is a recent release but do you seriously expect that none of those games will have their own legs for a short while like COD: WWII, Destiny 2, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Middle-Earth Shadow of War or AC Origins until the next quarter of games arrive such as Metal Gear Survive, Far Cry 5 and God of War to take their place to circumvent Nintendo's games from rising up in the charts ? (and the quarter after that will be Red Dead Redemption 2 which will complicate things even further for Nintendo) 

It does not mean that at all.

Its not a concern because of the reasons i already listed.

Again, GTA is an anomoly, its the best selling retail game in US history and has some of the best legs ever.

A game can still have legs without being in the top 20.

 

 

Earlier you mentioned Switch games not having the legs of Wii software but thats where install base makes a huge difference.

When Wii was 8 months old it was competing against PS3/360 which had a combined ~7 million in US while Switch is going up against PS4/XBO which have a combined ~37 million in US. MASSIVE DIFFERENCE.