Brain Training for Switch announced

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TheMisterManGuy said:

VideoGameAccountant said:
I'm not sure how this will do. So far, Nintendo's most successful endeavors have been their core games. Labo was a flop. Nintendo is certainty going in on it with Brain Age and Ring Fit. I don't see this being the success it was with the DS. Wether it can be a moderate success or another flop will be what determines the direction of these titles.

Still, I wonder what Nintendo has. These games can't be that difficult to make. And we haven't go much from them in 2018 and 2019 (internal developers I mean). So whats 2020 going to be?

How many times are people going to say this? 1.5 million is not a flop. Yeah, it didn't blow up, but it's far from a failure.

For all four maybe. But only one of them sold more than 1 million units (the Toy-Con set). The rest performed horribly. Remember that this was a product Nintendo touted as expending the user base and they heavily advertised. It sold worse than Nintendo's more niche titles like Fire Emblem and Xenoblade

curl-6 said:

VideoGameAccountant said:

Still, I wonder what Nintendo has. These games can't be that difficult to make. And we haven't go much from them in 2018 and 2019 (internal developers I mean). So whats 2020 going to be?

In order to ensure Switch had a killer first year and didn't suffer the Wii U's fate of launching into a protracted drought, Nintendo opened fire with almost all their big first party teams (Zelda team, 3D Mario team, Mario Kart team, Splatoon team, Monolith Soft) in 2017.

The cost of this is that since big games these days take 3 years or more to make, those teams couldn't have another game ready for 2018 or this year. Next year however, is when we should see these teams start to release their second generation Switch games.

That's a good point and it's kind of what I'm thinking. Still, Nintendo has more studios than those that released stuff for 2017. Nonetheless, 2020 could be a huge year for Nintendo.