Global Hardware Apr 18-24 - Switch Sells 468K, PS5 Sells 188K, XS Sells 88K

[Ganoncrotch]

RolStoppable said:

Ganoncrotch said:

The Switch sold more than every thing else combined, and..... if you add in the Xbox SSX and PS4 sales a second time.... Switch is still ahead. I really hope Nintendo do not rest on their lead, they need to keep on top of AAA releases from first parties like Metroid Prime 4 and Breath of the Wild 2 needs to be getting news soon, otherwise by the time those games are ready for release it will be years later at this point. I could see Splatoon 2 and Maybe Mario Odyssey 2 coming out before MP4 and BotW 2 at this stage.

I expect Breath of the Wild 2 to be the show-off title for this year's Switch revision along with a simultaneous launch of both the game and the hardware in fall 2021, hence the ongoing lack of news for the game. Nintendo won't show BotW2 until they are ready to unveil the revision.

For Metroid Prime 4 we know that development was completely rebooted in early 2019, so since then the most optimistic expectation for its release was fall 2021, but more realistically it would happen sometime in 2022. This means Splatoon 3 (announced for 2022) releasing before Metroid Prime 4 wouldn't be surprising at all.

What you think about a Odyssey 2 in the same lines as Galaxy 2? More or less the exact same game engine with just new stages and story so they could make it far faster than most games on the system.

I could see Splatoon 3 on time or ahead of schedule too unless the team is pulled to another project, keep in mind they'll have been working on that since Splatoon 2 had the last Splatfest which is over a year ago now and again it's going to be using almost all of Splatoon 2's code in the background I'd say, that game works amazing on the Switch's hardware, very little work needed in that area imo.