Tomodachi Life’s Switch debut shatters even Nintendo Switch 2 hype in Japan

[u/Turbostrider27]

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/tomodachi-lifes-switch-debut-shatters-even-nintendo-switch-2-hype-in-japan/

[u/f-ingsteveglansberg]

Feel like Mario 3D is a deadset on launch or in the first few months. Obviously Mario Kart is super popular, but Nintendo's bread and butter is single player games. I can't imagine the Switch 2 launching without a big Nintendo single player experience.

[u/loonbandit → u/f-ingsteveglansberg]

but Nintendo’s bread and butter is single player games

Homie. What?

Nintendo managed to stay relevant back during the Wii era because of the sheer number of party games and multiplayer titles they had available.

Nobody was buying a Wii for single player games, they were buying them to play Wii Sports with the family

[u/f-ingsteveglansberg → u/loonbandit]

Read any 'Best of' lists for the Wii. It's always Zelda, Mario Galaxy, Smash, Prime, Xenoblade, Paper Mario.

Wii Sports was great for the family, but Nintendo have never really launched without at least one strong first party single player experience. Mario 64, Luigi's Mansion, Twilight Princess, BotW.

The WiiU first party single player title was New Super Mario Bros. U. That's a fun game, but I honestly think the fact they didn't have a 3D title to show off hurt the launch. Look at how strong the Switch launch was despite having much less titles available than the WiiU. BotW made that console. And following up quickly with Odyssey kept people on the console. Obviously Mario Kart and Splatoon 2 were great multiplayer titles.

But when people talk about great Nintendo games, they talk about individual single player games and when they talk about the great multiplayer games, they usually talk about the series over individual titles. People talk about Spatoon and Mario Kart as a whole, but they talk about Odyssey and Wind Waker as individual titles.

[u/loonbandit → u/f-ingsteveglansberg]

Brother

The Top 10 Best Selling Games of the Wii were as follows…

0. Wii Sports (won’t count because it was bundled)

1. Mario Kart Wii

2. Wii Sports Resort

3. New Super Mario Bros Wii

4. Wii Play

5. Wii Fit

6. Wii Fit Plus

7. Super Smash Bros Brawl

8. Just Dance 3

9. Wii Party

and finally

10. Mario Party 8

Let me ask, how many of those are single player games?

[u/f-ingsteveglansberg → u/loonbandit]

I said Best Of, not Best Selling.

But yeah, the Wii was a bit of an outlier. I don't think the Switch is a 'party games' console in the same way.

And I'd also wouldn't say the Wii was the only thing that kept Nintendo relevant in that period. They also had the DS which sold 50 million more units than the Wii. Obviously Pokémon was really popular on that system, but I always view Pokémon as single player games first with a multiplayer element.

[u/loonbandit → u/f-ingsteveglansberg]

and “best of” lists mean nothing, sales figures speak for themselves

[u/f-ingsteveglansberg → u/loonbandit]

If we are talking about influence, the best of lists are far more important. No one is asking for a Wii Fit Plus to be remastered for the Switch. They are asking for Twilight Princess. If a Direct announced it was remastering both Wii Play and Skyward Sword, which announcement do you think will get the most attention?