haxxiy on 13 January 2024
| firebush03 said: For the sake of adding, it seems all the heavy-hitters of 2022 (Legends Arceus, Kirby, Splatoon, Pokémon) released in months where Switch 2023 saw big declines. Besides that—as well probably a weak holiday—Switch performed very similarly to 2022. Very impressive feat for year seven! |
The launch weeks of these games were down or flat YoY, though, except for Splatoon (and consider Sep 2021 was the pre-Switch Oled launch month). You might squint at the numbers and suppose Legends helped a little for a while, but nothing to the extent of TOTK.
It looks like the other way around, it was 2023 when heavy-hitters made the difference in a weakening baseline, not 2022.
