| Kai_Mao said: I find it hard to believe that DQXI to be announced for the West for the Switch while PS4 and 3DS owners outside of Japan are still waiting for their already-released-versions to come to the West. I think it'll come eventually, but it would be very surprising, especially coming from Square Enix, to announce the Switch version coming West before announcing the 3DS and PS4 versions. Blizzard and Rockstar supporting Switch with a couple of their most popular games (albeit older games) is pretty exciting. I heard great things about Heartstone and GTAV (even though I personally have issues with how some things are handled in the series in general) is a well-received evergreen title that continues to dominate the charts. I wouldn't be too surprised for DBFZ since it doesn't seem technically complicated and XV2 did pretty well on the Switch for a late port. Animal Crossing for Christmas is interesting. Not sure if it will be a system seller since it will probably not garner the big headlines, but it will potentially sell really well. I'm not sure if New Leaf was a system seller but it did extremely well, especially in Japan and among women. |
I don't see the relevance in whether a game makes headlines or not. A game that sells 10+ million and is among the top 10 best selling games on it's system is surely a system seller. Animal Crossing is an especially key seller since it has a much different appeal compared to the other big name Nintendo games. I met a lot of people in New Leaf who hardly play any other games if any. I think it will make headlines though, as it's been 5-6 years since the last game released making it an event of sorts, and there's surely a lot of pent up demand.
