While 2021 line-up lacks a "Must Buy" mass market title like AC, it's quite consistent and steady for this year. I think after SS HD this month, we're going to see at least one Nintendo/Partners title each month?
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No, no. It's an "iterative" successor, even though I'm not sure what that's meant to mean when cross-gen releases are ubiquitous...
I actually forgot about them. Was thinking of SMTV as november title.
not really coasting, methinks. Pokemon is this year and early next year, as well as a new Mario Party. might lack the pure highs of Animal Crossing, but there are games that will do big numbers
That's true for the bolded, I'm just saying NSW games can still come out 2025+ with a successor in 2025. The games that are coming if they are exclusive for next year (mainly Splat3/BotW2) kinda help out my point. But hey more power to people thinking it's going to be a 2022/2023 release. I'm not saying it won't happen at all. I'm just saying the point of it happening is nowhere near as guaranteed as some may think.
This is my problem with this thinking, time and time again NSW proves many wrong (more so software side) and bucks the trend of past consoles. NSW isn't like past consoles, sure there are similarities but that does not tie it for being repeated by history.
NSW hardware momentum has never been seen like this in the past
NSW. Software momentum as well
NSW is the first time Nintendo is focused on 1 system instead of 2
There is more but I'll stop here
I mean, 2020's big releases in Japan included Animal Crossing, Momotaro, Paper Mario, 3D All Stars, Pikmin Deluxe, Xenoblade, and Sakuna. This year has been Mario 3D World, Monster Hunter Rise, Miitopia, Skyward Sword, MH Stories 2, NEO TWEWY, Mario Golf, Pokemon Unite, Poke BD/BP, and SMTV.
Monster Hunter is now the biggest 3rd party franchise in Japan, and so that game alone means they're not really coasting.
Also New Pokémon Snap, Game Builder Garage, and Mario Party Superstars for this year.
While there isn't one singular game that has as much impact as Animal Crossing for this year, the sheer quantity and variety of titles on top of the impressive back catalog has been enough to maintain/increase momentum. And looking at 2022's lineup, it should continue to do so.
we are way past the animal crossing bump in the year on year weekly tracking. 2021 will easily be above 2020.
Lol, fair enough! I feel like that game is forever forgotten when discussing the "light 2020 holiday lineup" in Japan.
And I completely forgot about those other games. Tbf Pokemon Mystery Dungeon was also last year, but we're getting three Pokemon spin-offs in 2021. I'm not expecting Game Builder Garage to have the best legs, but if Mario Party Superstars performs anything like Super Mario Party then that's another significant game.
People often have a hard time seeing this kind of games as system sellers but having already far outsold BotW, SMO, SMP and LGPE there is no way, it's a massive one, even if the impact wasn't frontloaded at launch week and it relies more on its longetivity.
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Monster Hunter has been big on Nintendo since the days of the 3DS. Nintendo's just doing what they're always doing and releasing the games that have always been popular, which is what I mean by coasting, which is just doing about as successful as previous years, not going above and beyond. They're simply not releasing a 7+ million unit seller in Japan this year. I just expected more of a push before I learned the Switch OLED wasn't going to be an actual upgrade.
Do you guys think the OLED Switch announcement will impact the sales of the next few weeks? As in people not buying switchs to wait for the new model.
Insiders are already moving to 2022 for Pro, so we'll just have a bit of a break between the Switch Pro exclusives come back at us.
If the price was the same, then yes. But with the pricing being higher, it's kind of unknown territory.
Maybe a mild effect but the main impact will be in the couple of weeks before launch.
Not really, especially since it's still out for quite a while. You will have to wait a week or 2 before the new product release to see the effects.
7+ million sellers aren't common whatsoever. They've only happened a few times in total.
they're not doing that now? an interesting question will be if there's ample stock of the cheaper switch when the OLED model releases
Also, the KOF platform announcement is weird to me that they would leave out a switch version. I would think getting all that acknowledgment from Smash with Terry and etc would be a good signal for them to release the new KOF game on Switch.
I guess Xbox is enough to give them the needed extra sales lol.
I guess Xbox is enough to give them the needed extra sales lol.
Well yeah, that's why I'm expecting Nintendo to coast this year and not do as well as 2020.
It's not coming to gamepass, like the majority of the jp games that have been announced aren't at least at release.
Not doing as well as 2020 wouldn't be coasting.
But 2021 is already 340k units ahead of 2020 YTD and it's months after Animal Crossing at this point aligned. So not having a 7m+ title doesn't really mean anything for the back half. They just need to maintain momentum with medium/large scale titles, which they are with Pokémon, Mario Party, SMTV, etc.
Ok, we definitely have different definitions of what coasting is, cause I was confused about where this whole disagreement came from, cause I don't actually disagree about what could happen for Nintendo sales this year.
There's likely no title left on Switch's lifecycle that may have the impact of Animal Crossing.
I don't get it, isn't it trying to replicate that anyway? What's the big discovery?
Nothing announced so far. It's coming to the Windows Store though(Also Epic and Steam at launch).
Oh, okay. It just seemed like you were expressing doubt that Nintendo would surpass its sales last year with its lineup this year.
Forget smash, they put like 90% of kof games and games connected to it on the switch, theyve been building an entire audience on the switch just to say the new game is not coming to it
If you don't release the two best-selling games ever in successive years, I guess it can only be defined as coasting.
Damn, was using those number to try and figure out something with Bandai and a new OP game.
It'll probably get at least another game that'll sell gangbusters but probably nothing that'll compare to AC's succes in the same period of time.