| Leynos said: No one is going to buy a Switch for most those games. The games Switch has lined up this year are just to coast to mainly existing owners until Switch 2 launches. Then you have years like 2019 where maybe they didn't have a BOTW or Odyssey but lined everything up close together. Mario Maker 2. Astral Chain. Daemon X Machina. Zelda Links Awakening. Banjo DLC for Smash. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3. Dragon Quest XI-S in a span of just a few short months. Now? It's fairly quiet with a game here or there. But it's clear. A luigis' mansion port and some old Gamecube game and a peach game. Yeah that's just coasting. |
Really? No one.
That's why I said heavy hitter, and described it. If a game sells over 3M then there will be a good number of Switch units sold. Most likely in the tens of thousands (like the Mario Sports game), and could be in the hundred thousand (like Pokémon Nov 2024).
I agree 2024 line is coasting. I was writing down the franchises that could come up later this year based on trends of the developers, and franchises that havent gotten to the Switch, and are some of the best selling franchises (in fact the top 28 Nintendo Franchises).
The ports are to get older gamers excited and expand the fan pool, and the peach game is to get more girls on the Nintendo Train. Nintendo is playing the field really good even for a coasting year.
Lifetime Sales Predictions
Switch: 160 million (was 120 million, then 140 million, then 150 million)
PS5: 130 million (was 124 million)
Xbox Series X/S: 54 million (was 60 million, then 57 million)
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