Switch is home console seeing the fastest software sales so far in Nintendo's history, Smash Bros sold 5m in first week

[Shiken]

HoangNhatAnh said:

Shiken said:

Actually Smash is tracking to the biggest system seller as most sales this holiday seem to be in Dec.

 

As for Pokemon, that depends on the 2019 game.  Lets Go was a casual remake of the original games, and can be viewed as not really console caliber.  If the game coming this year steps things up to say, a BotW level...well that would be a console caliber Pokemon game.

 

I will point out however that there is at least one game that can ONLY be played docked that exists (Super Mario Party), but there is no game that can only be played in portable mode.  So there's that...

Pokemon main core games is a portable serie. The World End With You too.       .                                                                                                   

Man you're reaching, but ok I'll bite.

 

God of War Chains of Olympus was a PSP game, does that make the PS3 a portable?

 

Gravity Rush was a portable game that was initially a VITA release, is the PS4 a portable because of Gravity Rush 2?

 

An IP can start on a handheld, and move to a console  and vice versa.  It means nothing as it is all about the content.  If the next pokemon game is on a completely different level, it was not designed as a handheld game.

 

Take Zelda for example.  Was Twilight Princess a portable game because Minish Cap existed?  Or was Minish Cap console caliber because of Twilight Princess?  It is all about the content of the game being released, not of previous games in the franchise.

 

Also, as per my example, just because a handheld game gets ported to a console or has portable and console versions, like Dragon Quest XI being on 3DS in Japan, it does not change what it is being ported to into a handheld.  With that said, your point about The World Ends With You makes zero sense what so ever.

 

And on the note of Dragon Quest, it and other games that fit this category, always have their Switch ports being scaled from the PS4 version, NOT the respective  3DS or VITA versions of said game.  If the Switch was developed for as a portable rather than a home console, would it not be the other way around?

Last edited by Shiken - on 18 January 2019