| PAOerfulone said: Compare the hype, talk, and craze about Pokemon today to 'PokeMania' back then, it is not even close. Back then, you couldn't walk two feet outside your house without something or someone mentioning Pokemon. That's what I mean by 'phenomenon.' The fact that Sw/Sh managed to crack 20 million while no other game has done it since G/S, has more to do with the 'Switch effect' and, yes, the pandemic boost, than anything else. Don't put words in my mouth, I never said ACNH was the 'only' game benefitting from the pandemic. I said it was the PERFECT game to fulfill all the needs brought forth by the pandemic. And it is. Getting away from how screwed up and dangerous the world has become in just 1 year to go into your own little world and island, with a little virtual version of yourself living a virtual life and spend the days, weeks, months there without a care or worry in the world? It's EXACTLY the kind of game that you would need to get you through a this pandemic. And it released RIGHT when it started. So take the hype leading up to release and word of mouth after release and multiply it by 2-3. And that's what gets you 31 million in less than one year. So yes, right place, right time. |
The phenomenon is still around it's just not aimed at you who was the target audience at the time and has taken a different approach with the times I don't think you understand what is meant by a bubble bursting, S/S released before any nation went into lock down (January) and sold 16m on release so how does the Pandemic factor in there or is that the go to excuse now?
Not putting words in your mouth I'm pointing out what you're implying especially with your "own merit" comment AC was hyped long before the Pandemic was even a thing the were celebrities posting about it on their twitter a year before any lockdown anyone who knew the series could see huge sales were coming especially with the Switch's momentum we have a Zelda game heading to 25m when no game in the series never broke 10m in its entire history we have a 3D Mario game touching 20m for the first time, we have games like Luigi's Mansion about to hit 10m. This isn't the pandemic this is just the games being good, marketing and platform momentum. ACNH isn't the only game you can get away from the world from either nor is it the only game of its kind.
