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curl-6 on 21 November 2019
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zorg1000 said:
curl-6 said:

That makes sense, Mario Maker 2 was the system's first real big release for the year, and after that it got a veritable avalanche of software over the following months, whereas in the first 5.5 months of the year its release schedule was quite anemic.

Yep, before SMM2 released the biggest 1st party titles were NSMBU & Yoshi (both Q1) which are nice support titles but not massive system sellers and with SMM2 releasing in the last week of June NSW almost went an entire Q without a major title.

If Fire Emblem hadn't been delayed from Spring to July than it would have been a pretty solid H1 linuep.

Jan-Fitness Boxing, New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe

Feb-Tetris 99 (eShop)

March-Yoshi's Crafted World

April-Labo VR, Boxboy+Boxgirl (eShop)

May-Fire Emblem: Three Houses

June-Cadence of Hyrule (eShop), Super Mario Maker 2

It really just needed one big game to stand out in mid-Spring to make H1 go from meh to pretty good.

Thankfully this shouldn't be a problem next year with Animal Crossing coming in March, plus hopefully some medium-tier games we don't know about yet.