Why do Nintendo's new Switch IPs get called "failures"?

[flashfire926]

Shiken said:

flashfire926 said:

From what angle? It's still outselling Arms, yet it probably has a much lower budget put into it than ARMS or any other Nintendo made game. 

Bottom line is, it WAS a launch title, and did well because of that. No ifs and buts

Dont get me wrong, I dont want the game to do well myself, but its more successful than ARMS lets face it.

True, all I am saying is that an ARMs 2 would do way better than a...1,2,...3? Switch.

I guess my point is that ARMs is a good game and sold well and 1,2 Switch is a bad game that only sold well due to it being a launch title.

But you are correct, from a pure sales perspective 1,2 Switch is a success.

Well true, if you look at its potential to continue as a series, its probably squandered and not as many people will buy it the second time around, whereas they will give a chance to ARMS 2. That way of looking at it makes sense too. In that sense, it can count as a failure.

Though for what the game is (a glorified tech demo for switch, albeit a lazy and rushed one), it did well as a standalone title.

It would be the situation that Watchdogs found it self in: 1st game sold gangbusters, but people were burned on final game, so the second time around with watchdogs 2 people stayed away, even if the game was legitimately very good.