NightlyPoe said:
I don't believe so. Tomodachi is a sub-brand of Miis. If the Mii brand itself is faltering and no longer central to Nintendo's marketing strategy, then it is quite logical to conclude that Tomodachi would also suffer as a result. This isn't 2014 anymore when the Miiverse was in its heyday and Nintendo was opening their E3 presentation with the blockbuster announcement that Smash for Wii U would include Mii Fighters a few days after Tomodachi Life debuted outside of Japan. Is it a dead franchise? Probably not. But is it a franchise that we can expect 60% growth? No, I don't think that's likely at all. |
Except Tomodachi doesn't carry the Mii name it's simply a franchise that utilizes them as avatars much like Mario Kart and Smash does it's success is not dependent on them as a brand but on its own merits that's the issue in your argument Tomodachi is the game that made Mii's popular through the DS game not the other way around which is why Nintendo began pushing them, the game was originally going to have only female original characters and not Miis it was never dependent on Miis popularity to begin with.
Even it's questionable whether your argument in regards to Miis declining is really the case as well because Miitopia still sold 1.2m or so releasing in 2017 meanwhile Metroid:SR struggled to cross 500k along with many other games, people have cited that the latter is because the 3DS is in its twilight years and all momentum has shifted to the Switch which is fair enough but then it shows that Miis may not be as low in value as you claim because the only other game to sell 1m or more on 3DS since 2017 is Pokemon USUM.
