BotW is what made Switch take off out of the gate, then Odyssey helped sustain momentum. That carried them into Smash Ultimate, which was a huge deal, which carried them to the phenomenon that was New Horizons. By that point, Switch had had like 4 breakout games in the pop culture zeitgeist, and its position as a huge seller for years more to come was cemented. They will need to replicate that again if they want Switch 2 to come anywhere close in sales. It will be all about having 3-4 massive games that get everyone talking in those first 3 years or so it’s out. But that’s not going to happen by just giving us games like Skyward Sword or Mario 3D World that are fine, but not going to get the mainstream gaming public talking. It has to be games as bold as BotW/Odyssey were at the time, epic in scale as Smash Ultimate, or as universally appealing as New Horizons.
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