Nintendo quarterly sales update (To September 30th 2021) Switch 92.87m

[PAOerfulone]

Dulfite said:

Kakadu18 said:

In 2016 Nintendo only released very few games, their Switch launch year lineup was in active development. Super Mario Odyssey, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Arms, Fire Emblem Warriors, Splatoon 2 (this game has more differences than you give it credit). Only BotW was crossgen and MK8DX got alot of new content. Unless you expect three or more crossgen releases and an actual ton of ports, not just two (which won't even make any sense, since it's likely backwards compatible) it's not reasonable to expect the Switch 2 in 2023.

My point was cross gen games can carry consoles early on, which 2017 was. Especially in the first half of that year.

It worked for the Switch for 2 main reasons.

1) It wasn't backwards compatible.

2) The Wii U was a piece of garbage that nobody owned outside of the diehard Nintendo fans who are going to buy any and everything they put out anyway.

To the dedicated and casual gaming audience OUTSIDE of Nintendo, all of those games were all brand new experiences. 

Last edited by PAOerfulone - on 04 November 2021