How do you feel about certain games coming to 3DS that are not also coming to Nintendo Switch?

[zorg1000]

KLXVER said:

RolStoppable said:

Nope. You would have to assume that all Wii U owners are early adopters of Switch, but Wii U sales were spread over four and a half years, so that doesn't make sense. It would be more realistic to assume that the number of early Wii U adopters is equal to the number of early Switch adopters who owned a Wii U. So right now you are looking at 3-4m Switch owners who owned a Wii U while 10-11m Switch owners didn't own a Wii U. The latter group is more important because it's much bigger.

The latter group is also the one that can drop Nintendo in a heartbeat. Not catering to your core fanbase is always a bad idea in the long run.

But how are they not catering to their core fanbase?

This is the list of 1st party titles in the first 13 months on Switch that are not cross-gen or late ports of Wii U titles.

1 2 Switch

ARMS

Splatoon 2

Super Mario Odyssey

Xenoblade Chronicles 2

Kirby: Star Allies

 

Lets compare that to Wii U first 13 months.

New Super Mario Bros. U

Nintendo Land

Game & Wario

Pikmin 3

Wii Party U

Super Mario 3D World

 

Even when we exclude the Wii U ports on Switch, Nintendo's first party output is just as good or better than what Wii U had in the same time frame.

Last edited by zorg1000 - on 10 March 2018