I’ll grant that Elite Beat Agents might be more of a challenge with the lack of touch screen controls (in TV mode anyway) but I don’t think it’s impossible. Here are a couple of extremely well loved franchises that have been languishing in obscurity for years. Rhythm Heaven and Elite Beat Agents, for example. Nintendo isn’t just sitting on the big obvious names, they have an amazing back catalog of weirdness that they could easily dive into. Actually, last year was the time, but either way, if Nintendo were to put more of their franchises front and center, I have little doubt that they’d all sell better than they ever have before. So now’s the time for Nintendo to hit us with everything they’ve got. New stuff like Ring Fit Adventure and Labo are fantastic, and it’s great to see stuff like Donkey Kong Country and Splatoon thrive the way they deserve, but as has been said many, MANY times, nobody has the back catalog of characters and franchises that Nintendo does. All kinds of games regardless of genre seem to be capable of finding a home as long as they’re quality products. People want to play games on Switch from new and old franchises. I know Blaster Master isn’t a Nintendo property, but it illustrates the point. OR how about the Blaster Master series? It hasn’t seen anything even remotely resembling a hit in decades, and yet its shiny new reboot on Switch did well enough to get itself a sequel (and maybe even more in the future). Mario Kart 8 Deluxe wasn’t a new game either though, so there is precedent. That’s quite a feat, especially considering Pikmin 3 isn’t exactly a new game.
Pikmin 3: Deluxe is officially the best selling game in the franchise.
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Wii had a small handful of absurdly successful hits on it, but for the most part, software sales on the Wii were dismal. It’s on track to surpass the Wii this year, but unlike that massively successful platform, people are actually buying games for the Switch too, and not just the same three. Nintendo’s latest financials were recently released, and surprise! The Switch is selling very, very well.