@skywake It feels more to me like Nintendo wants to announce some stuff in advance of the investor meeting to take account of no Switch 2 news, kind of like how around this time last year Nintendo announced the Zelda movie. So like for example, XCX in March mostly doused the speculation over "Will Switch 2 release in March 2025?" meanwhile a few of the other announcements gave extra value to NSO.
@Grumblevolcano wouldn't surprise me if things like Animal Crossing New Leaf and City Folk are added. There's already menu music from the Wii on there.
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@FishyS Honestly? Outside of a few, I've never seen really the current lineup of Directs as "big events"(even if the games presented are pretty great).
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I don't think we can discount the possibility of getting an update about Switch 2 tomorrow for the investor meeting. A full-on reveal? Most likely not, but we could potentially see a codename reveal (even if we already know it), as well as a release window. Perhaps something similar to the original NX tweet from April 2016, like 'The next generation of #Nintendo is coming October 2025! #Ounce'
That being said this is probably our last chance this year to get Switch 2 news. If a similar scenario to the one mentioned above happens, then I predict release month/codename tomorrow, March reveal, and finally an early October release (although September would also be a nice slot to fit in more games for year one)
@Clammy Yeah I know an election is happening, but Nintendo scheduled this investors meeting for November 5th. I never said there would be a full on reveal, I said it was unlikely, and that just a codename /release window reveal would be more likely. The investor's meeting is pretty early in the day so it's not like it's at the exact time as most of the election stuff. Even if we don't get this sort of 'announcement', investors will likely be asking questions about the Switch Successor in the QnA.
@FishyS idk if 56% digital is normal, but I feel like physical is more popular for Nintendo fans so this is surprising.
Also can Super Mario Bros Wonder please take NSMBU Deluxe out of the top 10? There haven't been many updates to the sales of Wonder in a while, hopefully they release the sales numbers at the next meeting.
@PikminMarioKirby Sadly the lack of Wonder update means it has sold less than a million for the first half of the fiscal year. Which means it isn't all that much higher than the 13 million and change we saw before; perhaps 14 million but probably not close to nsmbu deluxe yet. Hopefully there will be some holiday sales for it (Are there Mario Wonder hardware bundles? I forget.).
The percentage of digital versus physical sales varies a bit by quarter/what games are released but it has slowly been creeping upward on average. Nintendo seems to be pushing it a bit with the constant advertisement for eShop vouchers.
@FishyS I think there are Mario Wonder bundles, although I'm not sure what countries they are available in. Hopefully it's a big Holiday title once again, although there are so many Mario games this year it's hard for Wonder to have the spotlight.
@Grumblevolcano Will it sell better than Legends Arceus? Perhaps if it’s advertised also for Switch 2 backwards compatibility it will sell better?
@FishyS We got Paper Mario, Princess Peach, Mario Vs Donkey Kong, Luigi’s Mansion, Mario Party, and Mario & Luigi all this year. Even late last year had 2D Mario and Super Mario RPG. (Mario is also in Nintendo World Championships). And to think next year is Super Mario’s 40th anniversary…
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