| HyrulianScrolls said: I don't buy this. Nintendo expects to sell 25-30 mil Switchs this year, those goals haven't been set because they expect the system to get anywhere near that number off of ports like NSMBU. I'm sure they're betting on Labo to be big, and so am I, but also nowhere near enough on its own to reach that target with just a year of ports. They're gonna have something major or two up their sleeve on the software front. I'm still not ruling out both Pokemon and Animal Crossing hitting in Q4. Holiday sales for the system would be insane off the backs of those two and would make total sense with their sales expectations for the year. At least one of those two will hit this holiday. I think they have an impressive Q3 and Q4 up their sleeves and are holding off on revealing most of the games because they want all the attention on Labo for the first half of the year. Then around E3 they will unveil this year's heavy hitters. The other thing that makes this sketchy is why on earth would they release an NSMBU port over a Mario Maker one? That would make zero sense. Nintendo has been way too on their game to do something that stupid. |
Perhaps they feel NSMBU/NSLU works better with the Switch's "gather around" multiplayer style. They might be looking at it from a POV of feeling like they don't have enough multiplayer titles that in particular can be played in the Switch's "break off a Joy-con and pass it to a buddy" mode.
Mario Maker on Switch is gonna happen too obviously.
Could be a simple sales issue too ... NSMB2 sold like 12 million on the 3DS, neither of the Mario Maker games (on 3DS or Wii U) sold anywhere close to that, perhaps Nintendo feels NSMBU/NSLU deserved sales more in that range and the bigger Switch userbase is just the way to get there. I'm with you though, personally I'd prefer a Mario Maker port first.
I think there will be Wii U ports for the Switch for a while to come ... Mario Maker, Mario 3D World, Zelda: Wind Waker HD, Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, Paper Mario, possibly Pikmin 3 or Captain Toad will get Switch releases at some point.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 26 January 2018
