You say that, but Mario Kart 8 was still the #6 best seller in August's NPD. Animal Crossing was still 14th. 3 years after launch on NSW, Super Smash Bros is #11. Pokemon was 15, Super Mario 3D World was 17, Super Mario Party was 20, Zelda was #7.
I mean 9 of the top 20 NPD titles for Aug. 2021 were made by Nintendo. And you can only play them on the NSW. And NSW sales are still increasing year over year. So obviously something is selling those systems and if it's not the games that Nintendo are making ... uh, then what is?
Just to drive that home. Nintendo are selling more games than EA or Activision or UBIsoft or any other game publisher. And there's only one console you can play those games on. Does it matter if these are all games in long standing IPs if the games continue to outsell games made by all other publishers?
The Wii was an obvious fad. It peaked on year 3 and then declined. NSW is over 4 years old and still hasn't peaked. It's already surpassed lifetime sales of the PS3 and X360 in roughly half the amount of time. It'll likely surpass Wii lifetime sales this year. It'll likely surpass PS1 and PS4 lifetime sales next year.
The reason the NSW continues to sell strongly is that unlike the Wii, it's not relying on a gimicky and not terribly accurate control gimmick (motion controls). Basically the system doesn't die once people get over the novelty of the control scheme.
I mean, I had a Wii ... that I almost never used. I have an NSW that gets a ton of use.
Regards,
SB
At the same time mario kart 8 was on the wii u and so were multiple zelda titles. How did the wii u do ?
The switch is like the wii , it was able to get into the main stream because of a unique feature. But that doesn't mean a new system will have the same effect. Just because you can only play nintendo games on a nintendo system doesn't mean people will go out and buy it.
As for the games , like I said people bought them on the switch and now own them. What about a new mario kart will get people to want to buy new hardware for it ? The wii u had all the types of nintendo games that the switch has but it didn't seem to help it. Just saying that this thing was successful so this thing will be too doesn't work. Look at sony's transition from the 150m selling unit system to the 80-90m selling ps3 and the huge losses they accumulated to get to that point . You can look at nintendo , the insane success of the nes followed by the snes didn't mean the n64 was a success , it sold less than both of them and then the gamecube tied with microsoft for third place. But that failure didn't cause the wii to fail as it was a huge success that lead into the failure of the wii u. MS failed with the xbox , saw massive success with the xbox 360 and then failed with the xbox one.
Now look at the playing field out there. When the switch launched it was the only portable system out there and you can dock it to your tv to play. Now MS has xcloud. People in that ecosystem can use their phone , laptop , tablet and desktop to play games anywhere at anytime giving you a well rounded experience. In the portable world x86 switch like portables are becoming popular . We have the steam deck hitting later this year there will be 95 million ( as of 2019) people who have a library of various sizes that can just take it on the go. Then who knows what else will be released between now and a new Nintendo console.
Compound that with the fact that nintendo since the wii has been at tail end of progression for hardware while everyone else is pushing to the forefront of it. I doubt people want to pay for a new console that may not play the older games and then $60 a game that you can only play online
