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Dulfite on 26 January 2021
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160rmf said:
Dulfite said:

I don't understand this perspective. If you have bought 8D, and 9 comes out on the same system, you are far less likely to buy it than you would be if it came out on a new system. It's not like these are games with new stories people want to explore. Millions of sales for both game will poof, be gone, because you released two games on the same system.

If you don't own MK on Switch yet, and 9 is out, you now won't buy 8D, whereas maybe you would have bought 8D on Switch AND 9 on Switch 2.

Nintendo will do whatever leads to the most sales and least cannibalism of sales overall.

Now, releasing a new Diddy Kong Racing Game, or F-Zero, will lead to no cannibalism of MK, more thirst for MK9 and Switch 2, and success for other ips all the while appealing to fans of those series that felt neglected.

It's obvious why you can't see it. You are only putting this from your own perspective or the gamer that frequently visits gaming forums perspective, that represents a really tiny group.

Most of people don't wanna buy a new hardware to get a sequel of the game that they enjoyed playing on the system that they currently own. 

I know what I am saying bc I worked at a game shop during the MK8 release on 2014 and I was frequently asked if there's a wii version for MK8 after I explained that wii u games can't run on a wii system.

It's cool and all having other racing games from forgotten IPs, but Mario Kart is the brand that gets the attention. Having 2 MK on the same system would be mind blowing for many. Too hard to miss.

There would also be many people who would absolutely buy the game on the next system if Nintendo had released it exclusively for that and utilizing it's power that won't buy it on Switch 1 because of redundancies. So then the question becomes which one gets them more money in the long run:

A) Release a second Kart on Switch. Get some portion of the overall MK8 crowd to buy it, some new people altogether to buy it, but then sabotage MK8D sales going forward due to cannibalism and make the demand for MK10 fall down for years because many MK fans will have already been recently satisfied.

B) Release 9 on their next device. Lose out on a couple years of potential Switch 1 customers by making it a Switch 2 exclusive (though the final two years of a console aren't as lucrative as the first 4-5 anyway as sales always fall off). But then MK8D will keep selling (at no extra work for Nintendo) and the demand for 9 on Switch 2 will be so high that it sells like crazy when released.