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

[PAOerfulone]

Zippy6 said:

PAOerfulone said:

That fucking game shipped more than the system itself!!! It was the Killer App that the Switch absolutely needed to have in order for it to have a chance and Nintendo knew it. Then it had Mario Kart immediately afterwards, then Splatoon 2 to entice Japanese buyers, and the newest 3D Mario game for the holiday season along with stellar B-C tier titles sprinkled here and there. That Year 1 lineup for the Switch is among the best Year 1 lineups for any system in history and it absolutely lit the fuse for the Switch to explode the way it has. Without it, the Switch would not be selling at the level it is now.

Yes absolutely, BOTW catapulted the Switch. It was a cross-gen game. I'm not saying line-up isn't important, but I think the shear amount of content that Nintendo apparently need to get ready for Day One is being overstated here. Like you say BOTW was the only big game day-one for Switch.

The insinuation that because Nintendo has a strong 2022 lineup it's impossible for them to get ready for a Console launching in Nov 2013 and do the same as they did with the Switch and support it over the next 8+ months with a steady stream of titles is silly. 

They only need one big title to launch it is it really impossible to see something like this because they have 4 games launching in 2022?:

Mario Kart 9 - Holiday 2023
Pokemon (Switch + Switch 2(BC)) - Holiday 2023
Some other title (Paper Mario? Fire Emblem? Xenoblade? DKC?) - Feb-March 2024
Super Mario Odyssey 2 - Summer 2024
- more steady releases etc.

They can easily have a short lull in releases in the first 10 months of 2013 and then be ready to punch out some games over the next 12 months to launch a system.

Fire Emblem, Xenoblade, and the next 3D Mario could just as easily come out for the Switch next year. Three Houses was 2 1/2 years ago, so we're almost due for a new one. And we're coming up on 4 years for both Odyssey AND Xenoblade 2. Sequels to both of those are due to come out sooner rather than later. It's not like Monolith Soft and EPD Tokyo have been resting on their laurels this entire time waiting for the dev kits.

When has Pokemon EVER released at launch? Even Black/White, which you'd think would be the PERFECT launch title for the 3DS, was still a DS exclusive despite the fact that the 3DS was already out. And GOD KNOWS the 3DS desperately needed a game like that right out of the gate. 

Besides, Fire Emblem, Xenoblade, and Paper Mario are B-C tier titles. They're not the kind of games that are going to sell a system by themselves, which is what you'd be asking them to do. Those are the big guns, the S-A tier titles. (Animal Crossing, 3D Zelda, Splatoon, Smash Bros.) Most of which came out just recently or are about to come out next year and we won't be seeing their next installments after that any time soon. And THOSE are the kind of games the Switch 2 needs to get off the ground. Mario Kart 9 is the biggest one of them all, but that won't be enough. The Switch had 4 of those titles in just the 1st year to go along with the strong B-C tier stuff behind them + a plethora of 3rd parties which is the biggest reason why the Switch took off the way that it did. It wasn't just Breath of the Wild. Breath of the Wild got people to check out the house, all the other stuff like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2, backed up by Xenoblade 2, Mario + Rabbids, Sonic Mania, Skyrim, etc. got those people to buy it.