blackoutHERO wrote:Mario Kart, Mario Odyssey and Zelda at launch would have sold loads more units.
It's likely that you couldn't have a March launch and Mario Odyssey as a launch game.
Second, especially in the case of Mario Kart 8, it's probably been put as an April release to fill the schedule out rather than have a launch and then nothing until July.
I don't think it makes much sense to put probably the two biggest titles out on exactly the same day. I don't think Nintendo have ever done such a thing with Mario and Zelda before? They tend to space out their releases
If you're looking at things on launch they could have fixed or changed, there's better things to look at, like the price, the advertising, not having the virtual console up and running, the Joy con issue or releasing more stock to retailers, rather than getting its two biggest games out on the same day.
When you look at the PS4 launch line up, for example, the difference isn't the first party big hitter (Zelda is arguably "bigger" than anything on the list, albeit a Wii U port), the difference is the amount of third party stuff. Again, quite a few were ports or iterations of PS3 games, but there was a few of your yearly Activision or Ubisoft franchises in there. For whatever reason, they aren't on the Switch.
The console could have some with one or two of them to beef it up, rather than moving Mario forward when there's already Zelda, or moving the console (and maybe Zelda too) back 8 months.
Though the Wii U launched with quite a lot of third party stuff and that didn't do much good.
The Switch seems to have sold its allotted units quite well (it's sold out everywhere here) but you half think that it probably didn't ship in great numbers or Nintendo are doing it to create demand.