Labo did good afterall. Let's see what Nintendo can push in the holidays on the labo front. Holidays could be killer for it.

19.67m shipped right?

1.88 mill is low for a successful system's Q1 (unless supply restrained which the Switch clearly isn't anymore). You look at Sony at they're at 3.2 and 3.3 mill for the last two Q1s with PS4 ... if Nintendo wants to be selling those kinds of numbers they can't take quarters off or bet the farm on gimmicks like carboard games selling hardware. You gotta keep a flow of new core centric games going. 

Software sales are good though, especially for the 4 Switch evergreens in Zelda, Mario Kart, Odyessy, and Splatoon 2.

But then we would have people complaining that 2019 would have no killer apps.The same thing in 2020.Then 2021, etc.These games take time to make, so you gotta have a choice wether you are going to have a fantastical year(2017) or you are going to have good years.

Its pretty obvious why they went with the first strategy(having a fantastical year with 2017), since they really didnt have any other choice, but then 2018 suffered as a consequence.You cant have great year after great year without any kind of backlash.Games take time to make.

These numbers are as of June 30th, so most ,likely it's already over 20m now, very very close to GC.

They're gonna need to have a few 3rd parties step up and help, they can't always do it alone and Switch is not like the Wii/DS where the "casual" games are neccessarily causes large hardware spikes. They sell ok, like B-tier Nintendo IP but that's about it, otherwise Labo should've caused a nice spike in Switch sales. 

Switch needs other devs to pitch in and help more often than what its getting now and Nintendo should push harder for better relationships. They've got a good system here that's selling quite well overall and the demographics are older for it and leaning more core friendly, there's no reason why non-Nintendo software can't find success here, you're already seeing it with Octopath Traveller and Hollow Knight and other titles doing better than expected.

In 2019 you could have Monster Hunter, 2D Mario, and traditonal Pokemon. Boom, done. After that it wouldn't really matter as by the time a system is later in its life price cuts and revisions kick in to maintain sales.

Labo was too much something out of the blue to be really considered casual friendly.It plays to a niche, which obviously worked out well, given the numbers.Mario Party is way more of a casual game than Labo ever will be, and has much more of an universal appeal.We will see how it will eventually play out, but given the Switch effect, I expect big numbers for this game(5 million+) LT.

And about the third party stuff, yeah i agree completely.But its something thats out of Nintendo hands.Having said that, I do expect things to massively improve late this year/2019, but then again, it will be mostly japanese support and AA games that will improve, not the AAA stuff that will suddenly start appearing on the system.

Well.... yeah.2019 could be great, even spetacular again.You would have Bayonetta 3, Metroid Prime 4, Animal Crossing, something Mario related(like a 2D game), way more third party support than this Switch got this far, and so on.And why is that?Because Nintendo took a "break" this year.My whole argument was around 2018, not latter years.With this year being so light on big releases on Nintendo part, I certainly expect a bigger year next year.

As Nautilus said, games take time to make. You said Animal Crossing could’ve been first half 2018, but they haven’t even announced anything yet for Switch in regards to that franchise. We’ll just have to see what Nintendo announces in future directs.

As for MH, I guess you would have to convince Capcom to do more than ports and collections.