thismeintiel said:
The whole point of Labo was to attract kids and a more casual audience, which would in turn boost Switch sales, which is why Nintendo was expecting to ship 20M units this fiscal year. That has not happened. So, as far as its intended purpose goes, it has failed. Now, it may pick up during the holidays, but we'll have to wait and see how that plays out. As far as sales go, it's not a failure per se. However, its sales aren't anything to get excited about, either. It opened low in the UK and continues to plummet each week. I'm sure the same is happening across EU. Japan has had a better result, but it's still not a runaway success, and has only sold ~50% of its initial shipment, even though one of those weeks was Golden Week. And while we'll have to wait to see how it debuted in the US, we also haven't got any stories about how successful it has been in the past 3 weeks, which makes me believe it wasn't that big of a hit. Now, we have Nintendo paying a big price for Ariana Grande and the Tonight Show to push it. That kinda also points to them trying hard to push units that aren't selling. |
I highly doubt Nintendo is banking on Labo to make Switch sell 20m.
