Nintendo’s legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed in a new interview that the Kyoto-based company aims to have one 30+ million selling piece of software every three to five years. Nintendo has had four games on the Switch that has passed that threshold since the system launched in March 2017. Those games are Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (61.97 million) Animal Crossing: New Horizons (45.36 million) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (34.22 million) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (31.85 million) Shigesato Itoi, who was also part of the interview chimed in saying “when Miyamoto-san is working on a project, he can assess it on a scale like. This one can aim for 30 million copies or this one will probably sell about 480,000 copies. It’s not that he knows it clearly, but he has to think on that scale.”
Miyamoto says Nintendo aims to have one 30+ million seller every 3 to 5 years
Good luck with that and keep the quality and fun factor.
It’s pretty reasonable they can get their biggest franchises up to that number. Smash, 3D Mario, Zelda, Animal Crossing, and Mario Kart are all different teams so it’s not like they impact each others quality. It hinges more on console sales really.
Well then. Let’s see how this goes.
If people can still buy Switch games on Switch 2, then Odyssey will probably hit that threshold and maybe even Wonder.
I mean….. 2 where wiiu ports…. And animal crossing got a boost from bored ppl at home through covid…smash is smash…
Weird reasoning to deflect from very obvious success.
Also, barely anyone owned a Wii U. BotW was a dual-release day one, let’s not pretend like it was an old game.
MK8D now has twice the content of the Wii U version.
AC would’ve sold well even without covid. That’s why it has sold millions more since then.
“Smash is Smash” – yeah, a successful IP more than doubling the sales of its previous highest selling title is really meaningless.
It’s not deflection, it’s the truth. MK8D doesn’t have twice the content of the Wii U version. MK8D launched with a better online Battle Mode, something that could have and should have been fixed on Wii U. If you want the extra content you’ve to pay extra for the DLC.
BOTW is a Wii U game, it doesn’t matter what anybody tries to say. They made owners wait over a year extra so it could have a dual launch. They stripped out the dual screen functionality because the Switch can’t do that. So while it’s an amazing game, it could have been even greater.
To say “barely anyone owned a Wii U” is nonsense. It sold over 13 million units, that’s hardly nothing. Yes, it’s poor by successful standards, like the Wii before it and the Switch afterwards. But 2/3 of all the world’s countries have populations less than 13 million.
And COVID DID turn Animal Crossing: New Horizons into a beast. It was a perfect storm of circumstances for Nintendo. It wouldn’t have been anywhere near as big without it.
I can’t even tell what anybody’s point is here. Nintendo ported and upgraded a few games from Wii U to Switch and they went on to sell an additional 30+ million copies and… that’s a bad thing? Something to criticize? What’s going on in your brains here?
Making big profit off of a port is bad because….. it just is okay???
Except, it isn’t. The majority of people who have a Switch never bought a Wii U, so the terribly ignorant comparisons you’re making across all your rambling posts is factually irrelevant. MK8D does have twice the content of MK8, how you obtain it is irrelevant. If you’re also still one of the morons spouting fauxvid had that much of a hand in anything, you’re a special case who definitely needs to educate themselves. Yes, being stuck at home would encourage some people to buy a game, but nobody who isn’t a gamer or wasn’t already interested in Animal Crossing was running out to buy it. Everyone’s hobbies didn’t just turn to gaming randomly because of the scamdemic. Switch has also always been a powerhouse seller, I have 4 in my house and have purchased 5 (OLED to replace my launch model which met an unfortunate end). I don’t know anyone with fewer than 2 Switches, and when you pair an amazing game like ACNH with a family, even when game sharing, you’re already buying more than one copy so you can all visit each other’s islands. BotW sold hardly nothing on Wii U, so idk what your delusional argument is there, and 13mil sold for Wii U is factually abysmal. That is factually “almost nothing”, and I say that as a once proud Wii U owner. The fact the games they have ported from it have gone on to sell even more than their Wii U versions is a testament to the great library the system had, but certainly not a knock against Switch. You’re very angry at the most successful company in gaming and I can’t understand why. It could be a lot worse, they could be Microsoft; the worst, most anticonsumer company in gaming who has run the entire industry into the ground and is simultaneously trying to obtain a monopoly so a company like Nintendo will inevitably be forced out or have to sell. You want to complain about a game company? Wake up and start attacking Microsoft instead.
I was being sarcastic…. :/
And none of your rambling disputes the hard data. Video game sales in NA increased by 30% during covid, and consoles and computer components in general increased by 60%. Your anecdotal evidence of “erm…. okay? And I have several different Switches” doesn’t hold up. Like, okay? Nintendo enthusiasts like you have been around since the 1990s with buying differently colored Gameboys, but I digress. People did turn to video games both old and new during the pandemic, and hard data shows this. Your inability to acknowledge hard data is shown even when you say fauxvid, and that tells me everything that I need to know about you.
AC NH wouldn’t have had anywhere near the amount of success if it wasn’t for covid, not even close. It sold more than the entire previous entries and then some due in large part to stimulus checks coming in and people turning to video games to stave off their boredom. New Horizons got extremely lucky to release at the very beginning of covid, and I guarantee you that the next title won’t come anywhere close to NH’s numbers. It’s the same reason why retro game prices skyrocketed, and they haven’t gone down since then.
I’m pretty sure ACNH sold well because 1) It was on a handheld system and 2) it had been 7 years since a proper Animal Crossing. I mean, I didn’t even buy it myself but I can tell why it was destined to be a top seller.
Not a 45 million seller by those factors alone, maybe 20 at the absolute most. New Leaf was the most sold title before that, and that was only 13 million. Covid was when people were stuck in their homes and needed something to do, and Animal Crossing hit the shelves right at the perfect timing.
In fact you can look up sales articles about the Switch hardware when Covid started. It tripled during that time.
Sounds very easy, show me +30 million sales for Sony and Xbox.
Well Metroid 4 coming out and that Zelda game, so this could very well get interesting at the end of the year.
I highly doubt MP4 will cross that threshold, it would be a miracle if it got 10 million. I want it to succeed but it’s a niche title. I won’t rule it out though.
Idk it might be possible. Before Dread released Metroid Prime was the highest selling Metroid game. The first new 3D Metroid release on Switch has that possibility of becoming the best selling of all the franchise.
Funny to see certain people seethe by Nintendo continued success. Keep seething.
Ah yes, the new interview…
That happened in Janurary
Doesnt the average game take about 5 to 6 years to finish though? How exactly is this supposed to go?