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Nintendo’s Disappointing, Underwhelming, No Good, Very Bad Year
Animal Crossing, and, well, nothing else at all.
If I told you that Nintendo had a bad year, you might say that I’m not very educated on how business and money works. After all, Animal Crossing: New Horizons has become the second highest selling Switch game in the console’s library, reaching over 26 million units in sales through the first three quarters of the fiscal year.
That same report states that the numbers on hardware sales have also seen an 80% year -on-year increase, demonstrating the ability to pull the casual audience into their grasp in a way that other companies just can’t manage to do.
But what about the hardcore Nintendo fanatics who want something more? The strong sales on the aforementioned products do nothing to motivate them to innovate and release new games for loyalists, instead lying steady in the prone position with the success they are having on one big title and some retreads.
Obviously, we all knew that what they put out this year would pale in comparison to their competitors. The new console generation was kicked off with the Xbox Series X and Playstation 5 releasing last month to enormous anticipation.
