| Otter said: I have a feeling this game is gonna bomb by mondern Nintendo Standards. Like sub 4m LT. I think lots of people are curious but not confident enough for a full price purchase. Anyway good to see it's of a respectable quality, not that there was any doubt. But the reviews aren't glowing enough to reassure me. |
To me this looks like a really cool game from what I can tell that does racing mechanics differently than most, but definitely more of a niche title than something mainstream like Mario Kart, simply because it isn't well known with a somewhat smaller character franchise and only one fairly obscure old previous game. So yeah probably only a few million.
Also doesn't help that Nintendo priced it at $70. That's a serious wtf decision (as are many of Nintendo's decisions lately). Nintendo is missing the whole reason why companies decided games need to be $70, specifically that's for ultra realistic $100+ million budget games, that was the argument at least. Selling a game that comes off as a cute quirky little racer at $70 makes zero sense. This looks like a $40 or $50 game, and I think would have a decent chance to sell well at that price, at $70 it's gonna come off to most people as "why do I need this when I already have mario kart". Sales will be helped out by the lack of games on the Switch 2 so far, but once again Nintendo gets the pricing of yet another thing all wrong in 2025.
