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Forums - Nintendo - Wii/DS each had ten 10-million-plus sellers. Switch has five and it's not even 2 years old

 

Will it pass them and make to 11 or more?

Yes 129 94.16%
 
No 8 5.84%
 
Total:137
Endymion on 10 May 2021

Nintendo has 51 first-party games that have sold over 10M as of March 2021, the sum of which amount to about 1.07 billion games.



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AJNShelton on 10 May 2021
Soundwave said:

The interesting thing is how much the Switch really hasn't needed new or experimental IP to drive that sales success.

Aside from Ring Fit Adventure coming at a time where most people can't or won't go to the gym because of COVID, pretty much all of the other top selling Switch titles are pre-established Nintendo IP that aren't really trying to break the mold that much. Many are even just Wii U titles remixed or spruced up a bit and then you have like a collection of 10-25 year old Mario 3D games selling 9+ million in just a few months.

I thought maybe Mario Kart Live might take off and sell big, but apparently not. That's something while tied to an established franchise is conceptually quite different/experimental. But nope.

"Aside from the new game, there is no new game"



Soundwave on 10 May 2021
SKMBlake said:
Soundwave said:

The interesting thing is how much the Switch really hasn't needed new or experimental IP to drive that sales success.

Aside from Ring Fit Adventure coming at a time where most people can't or won't go to the gym because of COVID, pretty much all of the other top selling Switch titles are pre-established Nintendo IP that aren't really trying to break the mold that much. Many are even just Wii U titles remixed or spruced up a bit and then you have like a collection of 10-25 year old Mario 3D games selling 9+ million in just a few months.

I thought maybe Mario Kart Live might take off and sell big, but apparently not. That's something while tied to an established franchise is conceptually quite different/experimental. But nope.

"Aside from the new game, there is no new game"

The fact that you have to use a singular there instead of a plural phrasing basically proves my point. 

The Switch is overwhelmingly being driven by traditional Nintendo games, unless you are going to argue without one single game (Ring Fit Adventure) that isn't even in the top 8 sellers for the system that Switch sales would somehow fall apart without that game which is a pretty dubious claim. 

And I'm not saying this is a good/bad thing, just noting it. Nintendo can achieve this sales level more or less just from their standard IP stables, provided they are done reasonably well and the hardware isn't clunky/embarrassing/badly out of date and the product isn't marketed as something for 8 year olds (hi there Wii U). 



AJNShelton on 10 May 2021
Soundwave said:
SKMBlake said:

"Aside from the new game, there is no new game"

The fact that you have to use a singular there instead of a plural phrasing basically proves my point. 

I didn't say (or tried to imply) that your point was wrong, I foud it funny that you started with starting with a new game to make a point about new IPs not being a selling point for the Switch



curl-6 on 10 May 2021
Soundwave said:
SKMBlake said:

"Aside from the new game, there is no new game"

The fact that you have to use a singular there instead of a plural phrasing basically proves my point. 

The Switch is overwhelmingly being driven by traditional Nintendo games, unless you are going to argue without one single game (Ring Fit Adventure) that isn't even in the top 8 sellers for the system that Switch sales would somehow fall apart without that game which is a pretty dubious claim. 

And I'm not saying this is a good/bad thing, just noting it. Nintendo can achieve this sales level more or less just from their standard IP stables, provided they are done reasonably well and the hardware isn't clunky/embarrassing/badly out of date and the product isn't marketed as something for 8 year olds (hi there Wii U). 

This may be splitting hairs but I dunno if I'd say Splatoon is a traditional member of their IP stable given it was less than two years old when Switch launched and just over two when it hit Switch. It was still a relative newcomer that reflects a more modern Nintendo.

I think the Switch overall benefits from a really good balance of new/innovative and old/traditional.