Global Software 8th December 2018: Smash Week!

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curl-6 said:

Ganoncrotch said:

coming up to Christmas Labo is gonna make a great present for under the tree, big box, toy to play with and a game for the Switch, it really ticks all the boxes for a Christmas Present, the only way it could be a better match is if it came with chocolate joycons.

Those Smash sales though.... incredible, and also keep in mind that this game was in the top 10 charts on the eshop for about a month before launch, so... yeah digital sales are gonna be crazy high as well.

Yeah it may not have been the next Wii Fit but it looks like the whole much-maligned "sales will pick up in the Christmas season" thing was actually true. The Variety Kit should pass a million sold through before Christmas.

Well Wii Fit sort of had use for the whole family, "it'll stop gran dying" kinda thing, but Labo is more just "it'll stop little Jimmy dying while playing fortnite" I wonder how much time / energy Nintendo spent on the whole Labo project though? was it something they were working on for a few years or just a short term "this is something else the Switch can do" sort of project. The graphics of the software being basic enough could mean it wasn't that huge a dev time or that it was in production for WiiU but them shifted over to Switch late on in life with emphasis on the building aspect of it than the software itself.

 

Still though when I imagine older people going into a shop trying to get that "and a surprise" on the list from Santa they're going to know that their kid doesn't have a big cardboard robot for the Switch or Starlink, both of those should have done well over the holiday season but I'd think that Starlink launching at 100 for the deluxe ed really killed that before it could get out the gate.