Switch 2's Monthly Releases Finally Make Sense Thanks To Mario Kart World

The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch 2 is here, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:despite its impressive launch week, the long-awaited new console has its fair share of critics. One of the biggest issues people have is the lack of launch titles, and as excited as I was for mine to arrive, I was right there with them. But after being swept onto the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mario Kart World hype train (or rather, its destr🔯uctive eight-wheelerღ), I get it now.

Even if you don’t want to play Mario Kart World, you have options: huge third-party games like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Cyberpunk 2077, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Yakuza 0: Director’s Cut, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Split Fiction, upgrades for a lot of original Switch games - some of which are free - and the very limited Switch 2-exclusive GameCube NSO library.

Really, Nintendo, three games? You couldn’t have at least thrown 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mario Sunshine in there as well?

Really, though, if you bought a Switch 2 on launch day, you bought it for Mario Kart World. The last game sold over 68 million copies, and fans have been eagerly waiting over a decade for a sequel. However, like many others, I wondered why games like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Donkey Kong Bananza and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metroid Prime 4: Beyond weren’t launched alongside the Switch 2. Bananza is ready, and so is Metroid 168澳洲幸运5开🔯奖网:if that tube station ad is anything to go by, so why not get them 🦋out there for𝕴 everyone to start playing on your new hardware?

Mario Kart World Is Comfortably Carrying The Switch 2's Launch Hype

Nintendo Doesn't Need Anything Else, Not Yet

yoshi pulling off a stunt on the pipe bike in mario kart world.

Then the Mario Kart World hype sta💯rted. As exciting as it has been to have a new console, there has been just as much, if not more, buzz about Mario Kart World than there has about the sparkly new hardware. That’s because, for the most part, it’s all anyone is playing on their Switch 2, and therein lies the very risky genius of Nintendo’s one game per month strategy.

Since the Switch 2 only has one b🌳ig first-party game, almost everyone who owns a Switch 2 is going to buy it. I don’t know the exact figures, but between the game being bundled with the console and it being the only first-party launch game, I’d assume almost everyone who owns a Switch 2 also owns a copy of Mario Kart World.

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Mario Kart World sweeps up all the launch sales🍨 along with all the launch buzz, and then, a month later, everything changes. Come July 17, many of us will be all Mario Kart-ed out, more ready than ever for Donkey Kong Bananza. The second big first-party Switch 2 game, and one that many people might not have bought had it been released at the same time as Mario Kart World. Pitting the two against each other would be like Nintendo hurling a blue shell at itself; it wouldn’t make any sense.

The one game per month approach is more for the games that will follow Mario Kart World than Mario Kart World itself. As game prices continue to rise, someꦡthing Mario Kart World is directly responsible for, consumers are forced to choose between one game and every other release more and more. Sure, for those ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚof us who would have done whatever we could to play them all, having new Mario Kart, Donkey Kong, and Metroid games at launch would have been fantastic. However, for most, that would have meant making a choice, a choice th𝐆at would not have ended well for DK and Samus.

pauline on donkey kong's back in donkey kong bananza. — via Nintendo

Instead, by the time Bananza gets here next month, early adopters of the Switch 2 will be more likely ☂to shell out for another expensive game. More than $200 for three new games all in one go isn’t som💙ething most people are going to do, especially not on top of an already expensive $450 console. That same amount over three months, on the other hand, is a much easier pill to swallow.

Monthly Releases For The Switch 2 Will Keep The Hype Train Rolling

Donkey Kong, Metroid, Pokemon, Kirby

Keeping the hype levels around the Switch 2 as high as possible also plays a big role in why Nintendo’s monthly release schedule makes sense. Not only does a new game’s arrival prompt those who already own the console to go out and buy it, but it’s a reminder to those who don’t that they should probably get one. Every time the Switch 2 hype starts to die down, a new game will launch to start the process all over again. It’s not a new strategy, either. Nintendo ⭕did exactly that throughout the original Switch’s eight-year run, and it’s one of many reasons the excitement and sales numbers for that console never died down.

The monthly♔ game strategy comes with huge risk attached, though, and it’s something that not many video game companies, if any, have the confidence to pull off outside of Nintendo. If you’re going to release one big first-party game per month, and then rely on that game to sell as well as the last one and to keep momentum for your new console rolling, you need to be confident that game is good enough to carry the weight of a new console launch for four weeks until something else comes along.

samus in metroid prime 4. — via Nintendo

Nintendo clearly has faith in all of its major IPs, even 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:announcing a new Splatoon game right as we were all distracted by Mario Kart World’s shiny new take on Rainbow Road. While we don’t know exact release dates for most upcoming Switch 2 games, we’ve got Bananza, Metroid Prime 4, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Legends: Z-A still to come in 2025, not to mention 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kirby Air Riders and a new Hyrule Warriors game.

Sure, some of those won’t generate as much hype as Mario Kart World, but that’s why the party racer is the launch game and not these other follow-ups. Mario Kart filled the Switch 2’s tank; everything else just n🀅eeds to keep topping it up.