Global Hardware 9 Febuary 2019

[zorg1000]

curl-6 said:

zorg1000 said:

I agree Smash was the biggest single contributor but i think you are underestimating Mario Party & NSMB.

Most people dont buy a system for a single game so when somebody who is considering getting a Switch for their family sees a handful of highly advertised, family-friendly simultaneous 4 player games like Smash Bros, Mario Party, 2D Mario & Mario Kart, it can really go a long way to convincing them to get it.

I agree an overall library is generally what contributes to a decision to buy, I just don't think games like Party or NSMB would be among the foremost games within that library to be taken into consideration, those seem to be more Smash/BOTW/Let's Go/Odyssey/etc.

Idk have you seen those games sales?

Mario Party was already over 5 million at the end of 2018 and has been charting pretty high on NPD, Media Create & EMEAA charts in 2019.

Same with NSMB, its charting extremely high everywhere and has to have sold a few million already and has only been out for just over a month.