Little disappointed in Wario Ware and Pokemon Snap sales. They're respectable, but they likely won't wind up as the best selling games of their franchises. I guess not every game can get the Switch boost :(.
Mar1217 said:
Doubtful, people we'll be excited to get a new system nonetheless if they're cross-gen or not. Case in point, BOTW is a cross-gen title and yet even at launch the Switch version was outrageously dominating it's WiiU counterpart and was capital in the Switch long success. + MK8 Deluxe isn't cross-gen but it is clear by it's OG version that people don't care if the game is sold on older hardware and can still remain as a must for any Nintendo system be it new or old. In actuallity, my opinion is the reverse of yours. It's the smaller exclusive that will mostly benefit from being a console exclusive since the reduced competition early on makes these titles easier to gravitate to. |
I think BOTW was a different case. A very small number of people owned BOTW, so if they wanted to get it, they would have to buy the new system. Same with Mario Kart 8 and all the other cross gen titles. I don't think the situation would have been the same if the Wii U had been wildly successful.
On the other hand, PS5 and XBoxSx basically have only cross gen titles and they're doing alright, so who knows.
At any rate, Mario Kart 9 not being a launch title for the next machine, even if it's crossgen, at this point would be insanity, particularly if BOTW2 and Spla3n winds up launching in 2022 as planned.
