They're getting in those last quick 3DS sales with those franchises that grew on traditional handheld (two of them being DS remasters to begin with).
What part of Atlus decisions make you question any of this. They may not make platform decisions based on largest reach but they are damn consistent. Much like Persona 5 and SMTV sequels to any games that released on a playstation ecosystem will come to ps4 minium and any that released on the 3DS will come to the switch. Cheap and easy ports will continue to release on the 3DS.
Well I hope so! I think Etrian Odyssey may be a dead series since you really need two screens for that, but hopefully the other 3DS series will live on through the Switch.
There are very few third party million sellers in Japan and as we can see with the PS4 sales being marginally better than the PS3s alligned their impact is not what they once were.
Splitting a vertical switch screen would replicate the effect I believe main issue is not portable unless your only counting tabletop mode.
More specifically, the developers have described the final, un-numbered 3DS Etrian Odyssey title as a "festival-like project" that will be a "true culmination" of the series.
Still better than alot of others, like Pkmn Series or even easier: look at FF series, what do the numbers even mean? Is FF15 a direct story sequel to FF14?
it aint hitting 300K in japan, that's for sure. the biggest problem with 200K-250K is the question of continuing to move in this direction for the Xenoblade series. the growth is that much meaning that there's something about the series keeping it from breaking out. if their medieval game or their online game (they may or may not be the same thing) does much better, then I can see Xenoblade either dying or changing to meet the more successful game.
Agreed. There will be loads of IP that will overperforn. People have come to terms with how low most third party software has been selling in Japan but it is a sign of a non healthy console market for years now. The Switch will most surely change that and we will see unexpected IP sell very well and also we will see huge gains for established IP.
Minecraft will most likely make its way to 1 million soon enough, so don't forget about that.
And Breath of the Wild. That would make 5 million sellers released in the first year. I think a prediction on whether Switch will have as many million sellers as 3DS is really hard to substantiate even a little bit, since so many factors like future third party support and the Nintendo first party future are completely unknown at this point. To me, there's little point in making a prediction on it right now.
The negativity for Pokemon comes mainly from west that raised S/M sales and there US/UM has collapsed at every country.
Yeah, it's too early to say Switch will disappoint in terms of million sellers. The competition of mobile has grown a lot tho, especially in the anime & kids department. Hopefully the Switch's success will convince publishers to make more kids-focused games for it. I'm afraid the Switch might need a pricedrop for that...
True, although the extent to which this is the case remains a question as of yet, of course: just how many IPs will Nintendo put on Switch, and will we see repeats of IPs that already released (e.g. Mario, Zelda, etc.)? It's a given imo that Nintendo will bring more million sellers to the Switch than any other hardware before it, but how many more is uncertain, and some more insight into this will be needed to balance this against third party offerings.
While 500K is indeed an high threshold for XB2 first month, Switch is poised to sell big in December in US and software sales (especially first-party games) are going to benefit greatly from it.
First Week sales of USUM were up 32% compared to B2W2 in UK. Don't know if we have any such comparison for the US.
I feel unit sales won't portray the whole picture.
Yeah, I think it's fair to assume that JRPG fans generally buy a lot of games, being quite an engaged audience and all. so pulling in a dedicated fanbase of such customers is quite valuable I'd think, even if their numbers are limited.
Yeah, forgot to add that. It's in there now.
