ARMS 2 Hopes and ideas

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TheMisterManGuy said:

curl-6 said: It's not a matter of pedestals, just of ROI. From a business point of view, it's simply unwise to invest heavily in a series whose debut entry is dead is both sales and mindshare within a year of its release.

Yes, it seems that way if you're looking at it from a cynical EA or Capcom perspective. But Nintendo has different standards for success than most game companies. True, the likes of Mario and Smash are expected to sell the biggest. But Nintendo typically is very conservative with sales estimates for most of their games. Splatoon was not anticipated to become the breakout phenomenon that it eventually ended up as. Splatoon 2 still would've been made by the original team anyway if it managed to pull 2 or 3  million copies, that would've been enough for Nintendo to consider it worth keeping around. But it not only shattered those expectations, but it shattered them to the point where getting a sequel onto the Switch ASAP was top priority for Nintendo. 

I'm sure Nintendo had even more conservative expectations for ARMS. It's a genre that's more niche than Splatoon, but it still sold more than most modern fighting games. That's good enough for them. It doesn't matter if it came from the Mario Kart team, Zelda team or what not. It Yabuki wants a sequel, then Nintendo will likely let him make a sequel. 

I'm simply looking at it from a logical business point of view. Gaming is a business.

Any competent management will look at how rapidly ARMS slipped from the charts and the public eye and see sinking resources into a successor as a poor investment. The only way it can happen if it Nintendo's execs are bad at their jobs.