| PAOerfulone said: 1 billion software sales following $1 billion at the box office for the Mario movie. Nintendo sure has a lot to be happy about even w/ declining Switch sales. |
Hopefully they've got a 2D Mario for the holidays. We're of course still waiting for 2D Mario and a DK game on Switch, only gotten last gen ports so far. Those would be obvious choices and 2D Mario in particular would probably be a 20m seller.
But this late in the game I doubt any single piece of software would boost hardware that much. Only thing that would do that would be a price cut and it doesn't really seems like they're gonna do that. Sounds like Nintendo is just gonna let Switch fade without any actions to push sales further, and we'll probably be looking at a Switch 2 in maybe a bit over 12 months (maybe timed for when kids are getting out of school for summer break) or holiday 2024, though if they don't have any big games planned for next year I would assume a late Spring launch is more likely than waiting all the way until the holidays.
If they go a little bit over 14m this fiscal year that'll put it right at 140m to head into perhaps its final couple months before the successor comes out.
But yea besides the Switch coming near the end of its life cycle, this could still be a big year for Nintendo. They opened the Nintendo theme park in California earlier this year, you've got the Mario movie that'll probably make like $1.4 billion and probably end as the second largest animated movie in history, you've got Zelda coming out which is probably the most anticipated game the Switch has ever had and will almost certainly sell over 20m this year, and if they can close out the year with say a 2D Mario that would be a pretty great year for the company despite moving into the final 12 months of the Switch's life.
