Mad-Dogg posted...
You know what, thats fair.
Guess for the switch 2 its really going to depend on just how much mario kart world or the donkey kong game (alongside some 3rd party ports like yakuza) can attract a crowd.
At the same time it isn't like the Wii U's launch title list was bad and that had a new 2D mario game to play, so we will see.
I still contend that the launch lineups were responsible for the lion's share of nintendo's "dark age."
Like, for both the Wii U and 3ds, Nintendo were laboring under the delusion that they could put out an expensive piece of hardware with an experimental gimmick and just... not have any system-selling exclusives on launch. That cheap ports of years-old 3rd party games all by themselves would move enough units to buy them a year of development time.
They have not made the same mistake since. Launching the Switch 2 alongside BotW (no, literally nobody cared about the wii u version) cemented the system's popularity on day 1. Mario Kart will probably do the same here. You need at least one big gun on launch day.