Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot has stated that he believes Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope underperformed commercially because they released it too soon, only 5 years after the first game. He says that Nintendo advised Ubisoft to release Sparks of Hope on Nintendo's next console, because Nintendo themselves believe that a series should only get one main game per console, but Ubisoft declined that advice and designed Sparks of Hope for Switch instead of Nintendo's next console.