The_Yoda said:
Soundwave said:
The Switch is a core console. Nintendo themselves also uses the terminology "core" and "casual". The showcase "iconic" title for the system is Breath of the Wild, which is as hardcore of a title as Nintendo has probably released.
It's not driven in sales by a Wii Sports or Nintendogs which were expressly designed for non-gamers. Sure there are primarily two successfully casual games on the system ... Ring Fit (which likely sold above its head due to COVID shutdowns boosting every home fitness product like Peleton bikes) and Switch Sports, but if you removed these two games it's not like the Switch would suddenly not be a 120+ million seller. If you remove Wii Sports or Wii Fit or Nintendogs/Brain Training from Wii or DS, it would completely alter those systems' identity and sales. Labo and 1,2 Switch never really took as huge sellers (by Nintendo standards).
The top 10 selling Switch titles are all traditional Nintendo franchises that existed before the Wii/DS era and the whole "blue ocean" idea was even a thing really.
It's just aiming for an audience that doesn't necessarily want every game to be a dark/violent murder sim or a sports sim. But that's not really that different from what Nintendo was doing in say ... the Super NES era. Animal Crossing debuted on the N64 in Japan and GameCube in the West, that's basically the newest IP in their top 10. I don't think Switch Sports is even going to finish in the top 15 Switch sellers, that's obviously very different from the Wii. |
Is Splatoon not in their top 10 now? |
Maybe if the list didn't count half of it being Pokemon games but otherwise no. It's around the 11M mark.
