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

[burninmylight]

curl-6 said:

Mnementh said:

Yeah, testing the waters is a reasonable thing to do, after such a long time in which the franchise failed to do anything. Some people seem to think that because they have rose-tinted glasses from then they played the thing in the past millenium that they know better than everyone and their tastes matter more. I played a lot of games in the 90s which are basically dead now. I liked some of them. I don't think everyone else that likes other games is stupid and only my tastes matter and only because there was no real try the series didn't recover. So let's see, if it really is a much hyped franchise and the second biggest game of the year we will see in sales numbers.

Sales wise, the second biggest game of the year, at least on Switch 2, is either Pokemon Pokopia or Switch Sports Resort, both will sell far more than Starfox.

Star Fox will never be the second biggest game of the year from a commercial standpoint, so long as it exists in the same timeline as Mario and anything with Mario in the name, Pokemon, Zelda, Splatoon and Animal Crossing. I'm really glad that Nintendo doesn't decide whether an IP is worthy of a new entry based on that hard rule, otherwise we'd never see Xenoblade, Fire Emblem, Captain Toad, Rhythm Heaven, Kirby, Yoshi, or any other B-tier franchise again, let alone have any hope of the others we've been begging for like F-Zero or Earthbound.

Last edited by burninmylight - on 16 June 2026