This is a very reasonable point imo but I still think you underestimate the game (even though I do think most of the informed people here are slightly overestimating it). It'll do a healthy >6-7 million eventually imo, which isnt terrific compared to the original, but still places it as a strong system seller for early 2019. Could notably be higher or lower tho.
by that logic everything is a barrier for new costumers. all games should be free and consoles be based on a rental model.
As long as ports can be relatively low effort (unless they are making deluxe versions) I see no problem with it.
No it isn't, it's frustrating for some of those that owned a WiiU. There are many WIiU owners that couldn't care less or even welcome these ports (among them me).
For the PlayStation 4, we can compare with the launch of Monster Hunter World in January.
I use Japan because it's the only market where we have numbers available now. For UK, we just have numbers for the Black Friday week. For US, we just have some tweets without anything concrete (NPD report will be really interesting, but it isn't available now) and for other contries, I think we have nothing.
Worst part is, even if Nintendo sells 19.5 million, they'll still film an hour-long Nintendoomed segment.
I personally doubt whether the port of a game that failed to sell Wii Us will sell many Switches. NsmbWii was a nice nostalgia hit for many lapsed gamers. Now they've had their fill, if this group still wants more they can already be thoroughly disappointed by Mario Run for a lot cheaper. It will probably do better than Bayonetta port sure, and riding the wave from Smash might be enough for Q4's target, but that still leaves the Q3 one.
The Wii U was unsellable. Nothing was able to help it sell. Not Mario, Smash, Mario Kart, or anything else. New Super Mario Bros U by default will be more of a seller for the Switch, just like Mario Kart 8 and Zelda before it
Wii U had Call Of Duty, Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, still didn't sell lol
Oh of course not, you could comparable or better versions of those games elsewhere on hardware you most likely already owned
I've been Team "Surpasses 20 million easily" since day 1, and I ain't budging.
That's still 2 million more than Michael Pachter!
I think Yoshi is a lock for March, and I'm really hoping FE just scrapes it into this FY. I agree that the numbers probably reflected Labo being a success, although the fact that they haven't revised them at all means they must still feel they're on track to hit them.
MK8 Deluxe is the second best-selling game on Switch, and it continues to sell much better than the other big Switch games from last year.
NSMB series seems to behave similarly to the Mario Kart series. NSMBU DX more than likely isnt going to sell a ton of people on Switches. However, it could become one of those games like Mario Kart and NSMB's previous entries, in that you pick it up when purchasing a Nintendo system. I could see its performance being similar to MK8D depending on how well Nintendo markets it.
At the bare minimum it's a 10x better system seller than anything that came out in a comparable time frame for switch q1 2018 so the system should be up for the quarter YoY
This is the May thread, made when people were much more optimistic. There was another thread by Phantom in September that still hasn't the poll results you are remembering.
