| curl-6 said: Nothing seems like it will move hardware like Mario Odyssey in 2017, Smash in 2018, or Pokemon Sword/Shield in 2019 though. |
So true...well, if you add in AC in there obviously, cuz that was like the ultimate system seller.
But at this point Switch doesn't really need "system sellers" that give boosts to the sales. It's got a 400k-500k weekly global baseline. It just needs to steadily continue to pump out a good library, with a few mega-selling first party games each year, and eventually drop that upgraded model, and some time after that start throwing out discounts and Switch will be good to go for another 4-5 years if Nintendo chooses to take advantage of its success for that long. Between the insane baseline and the chip shortage I doubt Nintendo could even handle a system seller game that drastically increased sales for a time above that baseline haha.
I think SS, Mario Golf, Metroid, Warioware, Mario Party, Pokemon remake, a handful of other games they announced, and maybe an unannounced game or two the rest of this year is plenty (though I was absolutely hoping for either WW/TP pack or BotW2 this year).
Does anybody else want to see Nintendo go for three near-30 million calendar years in a row?? They're gonna have two after this year. If new model isn't until next year, in 2022 we already know they have mega selling bombs Pokemon Legends, BotW2, Splatoon 3, add in the new model, plus no doubt a few smaller games, and then let's say they drop a 2D Mario in for the holidays....maybe we'll get three years in a row at like 28mil, 29/30mil, 27mil!
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