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Super Mario Odyssey is now the second best selling game of 2017 in Amazon.
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they take risks with their hardware, is the long and the short of it
Looks like they don't want to run into stock issues for this game.
Hopefully they have enough hardware now too!
Hah I'm guilty of collusion. I just bought a Switch today with Amazon's 3 tops sellers of 2017. I also bought Picross S and Puyo Puyo Tetris, the real heroes.
Crazy that it's already the top-selling game. I would not have guessed that so many Switch games would have been so high up in the ranking. I'm rather interested as well to go back through the previous years' lists as well, given that they go back as far as 1999.
If I had to guess, based on my personal buying habits, I'd say that people felt confident enough in the quality of the final product to pre-order it. And if you're going to pre-order a game, you do it on Amazon! I never pre-order games, but I did with this one! It's flipping Mario!
It's a possibility but I don't think it will
(Assuming the Pokémon games get released in 2018)
Really small sample size does not a trend make. Also I don't think anything outside of the Wii U was a straight up failure. Gamecube was last place in market share but is there evidence that it was a failure for Nintendo? They play by their own rules, as always.
Same, something tells me that Game Freak want to make a big splash for what is first home console Pokémon game in full HD, yes the Switch can act as a handheld but I am talking about the system power which is more or less on the same level as a home console, I would suspect that they would want to get rid of the trapping of the handheld while encouraging the social aspect that has been the series mantra for 21 years.
Zelda? That's a pretty safe bet actually but Mario Kart? Mario Kart is a pretty big party game. As awesome Super Mario Odyssey, it ain't beating out Mario Kart. At least not in the long run
Don't underestimate Mario Kart, the best selling Mario Kart sold 3 times more than the best selling 3D Mario. Mario Kart Wii was a freaking monster (37M copies !!!!)
I mean, every single mainline pokémon game has outsold every 3D Super Mario game. I'm betting on Pokémon to sell better tbh.
I only played for about 40 minutes, not even an hour, and I can see why this game has been so well received. Everything about it is magical. It had me going "oh!" and "yay!" and making me all giddy at every step I took.
Still waiting for them to delivery mine. They are using their own "AMZL" as the carrier. Status still say on the way, but never changed to "out for delivery" like other carriers do. I hope its still coming...
EDIT: Of course like 5 minutes after i post i get a text saying its "out for delivery" lol
EDIT: Of course like 5 minutes after i post i get a text saying its "out for delivery" lol
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I doubt it (or the PS4 as well as it's sold all generation) will hit Wii, much less DS numbers.
But Switch definitely isn't a fad. Nintendo just found a product that fits their niche. Keeps the portability that's always been their strongest point, but also works as a console and appeals to those like me who grew up on their games and still enjoy them but don't like gaming on portables very much.
Here's hoping that Nintendo continues its streak in 2018. Do we know if Pokemon for Switch is supposed to be a 2018 release?
If you'd told me last year that the Switch was going to be this big of a success so soon, I wouldn't have believed you. Really impressive, and good to see. I hope they can keep up this success next year, games only get better when Nintendo is doing well.
And now both FIFA and Mario Odyssey disappeared from top 2017 ranking, there is something seriously fishy here.
The Switch is a just a fad - just wait until the release of the PS5 Pro and Xbox one-two X. By the way, I expect (hope) to pick up a fad with a Black Friday deal.
