No...not in Japan. This is a Japan Sales forum...last time I checked. We were debating Japanese sales.

:thinking: They will probably come close to tying worldwide at the end of the day. 

I agree, but I was mainly talking about Japan. 

Easy for you to say when the game's target release date got delayed twice and it was well into mass production ... 

You seem rather concerned that Level-5's first release had to be Ni No Kuni II for the Switch but why that game specifically instead of The Snack World or Inazuma Elven Ares when Level-5 never released a title yet for the Switch prior to Ni No Kuni II ? 

At best what the Switch deserves are late ports in this stage of it's life and at worst it doesn't deserve the game because cutting into a developer's schedule isn't acceptable since they have better things to do than to just do ports of their games ... 

Actually, I think it's kind of funny how confident you are when Splatoon shipped less than 5 million in 5 months and Monster Hunter World shipped 7.5 million in a little over five weeks. I guess it will depend on how good Splatoon 2's sales are. It does have very good sales, so I won't make a guess as to what the gap might be worldwide. In Japan I feel like it's pretty obvioius Splatoon 2 will sell more, but then again MHW is having shortages supposedly.

You do realize Switch install base was under 5 million when Splatoon 2 released vs ~110 million for PS4+XBO when Monster Hunter World released, right?

Just saying game developing choices have to be made with that in consideration. My point is that people are looking too much into these numbers when we all know they aren't as relevant in the big scheme and besides that, are in order with numbers from it's predecessor

(I also think a NS version could help numbers a lot but that could be said for almost any exclusive)  

What are you talking about? I'm not concerned about Level 5's first release on Switch. Again, never said that. Is this some running gag to put words in my mouth? All I said is that Level 5 should put Switch on the radar for all future releases to stay strong and grow in Japan. Switch is where software is thriving in Japan, it'd be silly to ignore it for much longer. 

I even acknowledged the fact that NNK 2 was being developed before Switch was even thought of. My issue is not with NNK 2. It's with the complacency of Japanese 3rd parties on Switch as a whole. It will get better. A gaming company's first and foremost goal is to make profit off of software, Switch is the best place in Japan to do so. Well, besides mobile. 

Yes, I do realize that. As does anyone. It is just kind of funny how far we have come, we went from Splatoon 1 which was looking like it would be a moderate success at best, to where we are now. And a ton of people thought World would end up being a flop or at best a moderate success. Now look where it's at. All I merely meant was that it is funny that he was so confident in Splatoon winning, as most normal people would choose the game with the cards stacked in it's favor. Any game other than Splatoon, would be ridiculous. But the prediction is reasonable given how good the legs of Splatoon are. 

You don't have to be on the offensive, Zorg. Not everything is a war  

Well I hope that you're content that Level-5 will be starting with the release of The Snack World (this April) and Inazuma Eleven Ares (later in this year) for the Switch instead of NNK 2 ...