Nintendo Direct Thread (January 11th 2018 possibly?)

[Jumpin]

Nautilus said: 

Jumpin said: 

Animal Crossing isn’t a killer app system seller like Breath of the Wild. But combined with software like Pokemon and others, it will do a huge amount for system sales. It’s a system seller when combined with other games. A fairly big one when you consider the brand recognition it has.

Animal Crossing is a much bigger seller than you think it is, much bigger than Zelda usually does.New Leaf sold more than 12 million units if Im not mistaken.Assuming Nintendo dosent drop the ball and makes sn excellent Animal Crossing, its sales potential are closer to the sales that Mario Kart usually brings.

High sales alone don’t make a game a killer app. New Super Mario Bros will sell tens of millions on a large user base, but it is not selling consoles on its own. A killer app is a must have piece of software that sells millions of hardware because people feel the need to play it. In addition, killer apps typically drive a substantial portion of the total hardware sales over a time period: the original Super Mario Bros, Wii Sports, and (to a lesser extent) Breath of the Wild are good examples. Sales of 3DS were actually down year over year for the two months following Animal Crossing New Leaf’s release. New Leaf also was not the leading piece of software in that period on 3DS, it was New Super Mario Bros 2. It was a game that people bought because they had a 3DS, not a game that they bought a 3DS because Animal Crossing was on it. Perhaps in combinations with other software, but not alone.