To everyone saying that Animal Crossing massive numbers are because of the pandemic, don't forget the game is still charting to this day, the pandemic was 5 years ago. AC has been a powerhouse of its on.

Alot of the Mario Kart players will also buy a new Mario and or Zelda, prolly are in the same group. But Pokemon and Animal crossing have millions and millions of players who really only play those games and out of all of Nintendo's IP， Pokemon and Animal Crossing, will move a lot of consoles, that carter to people outside of the Mario/Zelda/Metroid/Mario Kart/Party/SSB group.


Also, if the NS2 is around for 8+ years like the NS1 has been, mark my words, there will be another pandemic during the NS2. And the upcoming pandemic will be much worse than covid was.

Possible, but not necessarily.

Pandemics do happen periodically, but not as often as this usually.

There were 4 major pandemics in the 20th century; the Spanish Flu, Asian Flu, Hong Kong Flu, and HIV/AIDS. That averages out to about one every 25 years on average.

Mario Kart & 3D Mario games.
Followed by Zelda... and probably pokemon afterwards.
Then we get into smaller stuff like Smash Bro's and Animal Crossing.

I still think Mario games rank 1st.

Of course there will be one eventually, pandemics have always been a part of life on Earth and always will be, like hurricanes or tsunamis or any other disaster.

That doesn't mean it will happen any time soon though.

Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if it does.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but the more I think about it, the more I think COVID was an inside job meant to clean house of the world's elderly and sick people and essentially soft reset the world's population without starting a full-blown World War 3. But it was botched as COVID... really isn't THAT much more dangerous or severe than the flu when you look at it. So, they may try again in a few years with something MUCH worse.

You don't need a human conspiracy to get a pandemic, they happen fairly frequently anyway, as viruses naturally mutate and humans get exposed to new ones through clearing forests and jungle, exotic animals, livestock, etc.

This is pure stupidity. Like mental illness paranoia. 

The Nintendo systems I have bought and the game I bought them for.
GBA - Pokémon Crystal and the Oracle games (I never had a Game boy color)
Gamecube - Smash Bros Melee
DS - WarioWare Touched
Wii - Zelda Twilight Princess
3DS - Nothing, my DS was getting worn and I thought I might as well upgrade. bought another DS Lite later anyway =P
WiiU - Mario Maker
Switch - Zelda Breath of the Wild

So Zelda leads for me personally. Strangely each time I could have played the game on an older system, but did not.

Brand perception matters more, and no brand demonstrated that more than Sony with the PS2. Greatest selling dedicated home console ever by a staggering number, and it launched with what... SSX? Fantavision? Ridge Racer 5? Nobody gave a damn. They wanted, nay needed the PS2, and they went out in droves and got it... much to insistence of us Dreamcast players that it was over-hyped and not worth it, yet.

Man, did I have some adolescent, frivolous rage for that thing at launch. lol