hypothetically speaking, if they delayed it till 2026, doesn't mean the conversation around Mario Kart will be as strong, even if it's sales IS still strong, it's not about raw sales but collective mindshare, releasing the game later can make it have the spotlight for itself and that can only helps, Mario Kart at launch will be it's strongest period regardless, as it looks like switch 2 will have historical launch, Japan alone had 2.2Million interested in getting the system from Nintendo official store alone, without counting other retailers, Switch 1 launched there with about 300K units for comparison
What's the 2.2 million metric from? I'm not doubting the interest, but would like to know how the number is being pulled. There's also the question if there's going to even be that many units available at launch. I think everyone here is too hyper focused on Mario Kart here. The Switch 1 and PS4 are still in play. If anything this is great counter programming. Zeph mentioned this before, but this is a "Mario Kart at Home" option. There's also the new general audiences Sonic has picked up over the years thanks to the movies that will buy anything with Sonic in it. If a game like Superstar can chart during a busy month with multiple heavy contenders, why wouldn't CrossWords when it only has one, locked on a new platform? I'm guess I'm just struggling to understand what everyone here's sales expectations are. If the game charts at all in NA and Euro markets, that seems like a win and that's as far as I'm expecting.
It's from nintendo themselves, them not having that many units in Japan IS the news -Japan use a lottery system for pre-orders and they said due to high demand, they apologize that a lot of people will not get pre-orders directly from nintendo- https://x.com/Nintendo/status/1914982671522083155
Fadel GamesGage shared this on Twitter: This is a damn looking-good render. This better be the game's cover.
