No 3D Mario on Switch 2 yet seems to have short-circuited a lot of folks

[curl-6]

firebush03 said:

curl-6 said:

Don't get me wrong of course, I'd love a new 3D Mario as much as the next guy and I'm not convinced that prioritizing Donkey Kong over it was the right move commercially speaking.

Call me crazy, but I think Nintendo holding off their safe heavy hitters is by a wide margin the most commercially successful formula. Switch 2 has proven to have strong hardware figures regardless of whether they release a 3D Mario or Smash Bros. Why waste safe-and-strong cards when good times come regardless as opposed to save them for when they *really* need them? E.g. following price hikes, in order to maintain long-term momentum (e.g. TotK & Mario Wonder being saved for 2023 certainly contributed to helping Switch 1 maintain 10M+ legs all the way through its eight year).

If a 3D Mario arrives in 2027 then potentially there's no real damage done, it all depends on just how far off their biggest guns really are. If they shot their shot with DK and a 3D Mario is still years away, then maybe it wasn't the optimal move. We'll have to wait and see.

We know Pokemon Wind/Waves is coming next year, if they can roll out the gigatons like 3D Mario, a new Smash Bros and a new Animal Crossing over 2027-2029 then that should keep momentum strong.