ARMS 2 Hopes and ideas

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TheMisterManGuy said:

curl-6 said: ARMS fizzled out within a year in both sales and mindshare though, no competent management would greenlight a followup to game that demonstrated such a severe lack of saying power.

ARMS only needed to last long enough for Nintendo to get all the updates out. It's a new IP in an already relatively niche genre, and the team only planned for 4 post-launch characters, with Spring-tron being added to the roster purely because the game was more popular than anticipated early on.  It sold well all through 2017, and even today, still retains a solid player-base. So a good year of support is enough for Nintendo in this case, and the game provides a solid foundation to build upon for the future. 

It doesn't offer a solid foundation though. Its sales curve and how quickly it was forgotten are both indicative of a game that has no long term potential.