Nintendo quarterly sales update (To September 30th 2022) Switch 114.33 million

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Soundwave said:

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When Ring Fit was announced, people said the fitness game fad was over and so it wouldn't sell. And yet, it's one of the best selling games on Switch. Switch Sports too is selling great more than a decade after people said the "fad" was over.

There's simply no reason NOT to make these kind of games when they are low cost and can bring in a fortune when they take off.

The demand for fitness devices will never go away, that dwarfs Nintendo, so it's fine to make games like that, but you don't want to rely on those types of games to be hardware sales drivers. 

That market is fickle and maybe even a Ring Fit 2 will do well, but quite plausibly by Ring Fit 3 all of the sudden that audience is no longer interested because something else has caught their attention or they thought they would lose 20 pounds using it and didn't because they didn't want to put the effort in long term.

The Switch is a much more stable platform because games like that are a bonus, it doesn't have to rely on them to be key sellers though. Labo doesn't do so great? Not a big deal. Mario Kart: Live Circuit not really a big seller, not really a big deal. 

When the wins are as big as 14 million plus for a low budget title, making them is pretty much a pure win for Nintendo, which is the point. There is immense potential for profit with zero downside, their success proves there is great value in continuing to make blue ocean software.