Nintendo Switch 10 million sellers

[Wyrdness]

NightlyPoe said:

Wyrdness said:

Tomodachi Life sold 6.3m and appeals to the same crowd who go for games like Animal Crossing while LM2 hit 6m, that's both higher than what a series like Zelda averaged before BOTW hit 10m and that was a game people as well were arguing won't cross 10m because it's a threshold not reached, Switch has a high attach rate for first party software and is helped by a unified userbase, 10m is a large number but then these two games have sold numbers not to far from that so they can't be ignored especially with their popularity.

Yeah, but a Mii-based IP selling 10 million units when it won't be released until 2020 at the earliest?  With Miitopia and Miitomo disappointing, Nintendo themselves have largely given up on trying to market the Miis.  Pretty sure their value is going down, not up.

Luigi's Mansion has a bit more going for it, however, it likely being a shortish experience is gonna cap its potential.

Miitopia and Miitomo aren't Tomodachi it's like saying Hyrule Warriors only did this amount so BOTW won't sell 10m that's the flaw in that logic, Tomodachi all the way back on DS sold 3.6m as a Japan only release had the been a western release it would of had an easy 6-7m total sales hence why Tomodachi Life got a western release it's seen as one of Nintendo's regrets as we'd already be looking at a series with 8m or so sales at this point had they pushed it back then yet even with that misstep the 3DS game still sold 6.3m. This is because of the type of game it is drawing from games like the Sims and Animal Crossing it's a niche no other game really fills people don't buy it for the Miis they buy the game because of what you can do in it, 2020 would be 4 years into the Switch's life not much different to TL releasing 3 years into the 3DS'.

Last edited by Wyrdness - on 29 December 2018