With development slowing down and games being delayed this is going to lead to something I hadn't really thought about: The games that do come out will have "artificially" high sales due to people's desperation for any kind of new game. ACNH sold so well not just because it is a great game, but because of all the delays.
I predict, based on this, that Paper Mario Oragami King will be the best selling PM ever. This will be a great thing if they do return to form enough, as it will encourage them to continue the trend of going back to the old school style. If the game is innovative for the sake of being innovative and doesn't return some of the more demanded features of PM and PMTTYD then those great sales will probably reconfirm their resolve to innovate rather than going back to formula and tick all of us hardcore PM fans off for at least one more generation.
Covid 19 artificial sales bubble has a LOT of impact on the future direction of my favorite series ever and that kind of stresses me out. I don't want PM to perform so badly that they stop making them (a bad paper Mario game is better than most games to me still), but I want them to perform badly enough (when done like SS/CS) that they move in the old direction more (and OK does seem to be a step in the right direction so far).
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