Yup. What’s wild In particular is that they believe that games like Lost Crown have enough of a pull to convince people to use their store/launcher. That’s something that even the big AAA releases struggle with. When you stubbornly try to do that with a mid-sized game, you might as well cancel your entire marketing budget.
It something Nintendo excels at and it’s weird they haven’t tried it. Nintendo puts out dozens of mid range games a year that are solid with no weird monetization.
You can’t even blame the great sales on Nintendo having all these amazing IPs because they built most of those IPs from scratch WITH mid range games and the occasional AAA in the series. It’s a long play but these business types are to busy looking at the quarterly number to start building now.
