| Soundwave said: The Virtual Boy was released because Game Boy sales had slowed badly and the Project: Atlantis that Nintendo was working on to succeed the GB was not going to be ready any time soon (it ate a crap ton of batteries like the Game Gear). This is why the Virtual Boy got on market. When people say "what the fuck was Nintendo thinking with Virtual Boy" that was what they were thinking ... Yamauchi was unhappy with Game Boy sales declining and pushed for a product line to pick up the slack. You don't have to give me dates, I remember all that stuff. SMO and BOTW doing well doesn't help down the road because those games sell so much that there isn't that much of a crowd left, every copy that BOTW sells is one less person to buy a Switch later on for BOTW2 ... because they already own one. That's kinda the issue, you run dry when you're basically relying on essentially 7 or 8 franchises which already have previously been released on a platform in the first 3 years and have sold millions and millions. BOTW2 is not going to boost Switch sales the same way BOTW1 did because BOTW already brought in most of the audience interested in a Zelda game. |
Why is a console going to be released to replace a portable? Fact is VB had nothing to do with GB the latter was the market leader and destroyed all competition sales were fine otherwise they wouldn't have waited 3 years to bring out the GBC again all companies are always working on the next platform. The VB was in development since 1991 it was always planned to come out With Yokoi having looked at the tech since 1985 it was never a GB successor it was meant to create a VR market in the same way the Game and Watch did which the GB went on to foster.
SMO and BOTW doing well does help down the line as they're still selling even now and helping move platforms the old well the sequel won't bring in new people argument is debunked by these very games as they outsold prior games heavily you know what that means? Everyone buying the games now is a new person buying the platform for them under your logic here COD and GTA sequels should never have sold more than the prior games.
Again BOTW outsold every Zelda game under what you claim the game should have sold more than 4-5m yet on Switch alone it's going to hit 20m LT this debunks the mode of thinking you're using another example is when people though MK8 wouldn't do that well because it's also on Wii U that game by the end of the quarter will be over 20m Pokemon is also another example. Your argument is not factoring in the knock on effect of having mainstream appeal.
