| curl-6 said: Mario Odyssey I feel definitely would have (and did) move systems, but that arrived 7 months after launch, so yeah I do think sales would be considerably lower if not for BOTW's breakout success. |
It would’ve been nearly identical to what we witnessed with Wii U’s launch, but since the predecessor system was a flop, Nintendo could carry things through with rereleased games. No BotW would’ve left us with Snipperclips, MK8DX, Arms, Splatoon 2, M+R:KB, Pokken DX, SMOdyssey, and Xenoblade 2… all very appealing to core consumers, but this doesn’t come close even to what the NS2 accomplished in its first 6 months, and everybody (well, on Twitter that is) was going rabid over that.
BotW was the reason Switch succeeded. After SMOdyssey, the next blockbuster wasn’t due until December 2018 with Smash Ultimate.
