The creator of Mario is very clear about what figures are necessary for a game to be considered a great success
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We all know that Nintendo is a company backed by big franchises such as Zelda, Pokémon or Mario, a character who will return with the new Mario & Luigi: Brotherly Connection game. Now, the creator of the most famous plumber in the world has offered some points about what is for him a great success and taking into account his criteria, neither PlayStation nor Xbox are up to par. According to Miyamoto himself, he considers a game to be a great success when exceeds 30 million copies sold, a really high figure.
According to our colleagues at Nintendúo, for now only four Nintendo Switch games manage to meet those figures and enter the category of Miyamoto’s greatest hits: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Super Smash Bros Ultimate and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Not bad considering that the console has been around for a long time. seven years on the market and that for the creator of Mario, Nintendo is satisfied with a great success every three or five years. For now, neither PlayStation nor Xbox are able to have a delivery in those numbers.
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This information has been known thanks to an interview that Miyamoto had with Shigesato Itoi and which you can see on the 1101 website, logically it is in Japanese, so you will have to translate the website. However, just below these lines we are going to tell you how Nintendo works in that sense and yes, it seems that they want each employee to think about making a big success. Of course, that is not always the case, as we have told you, Switch has four titles with more than 30 million copies in seven years, logically not all of them are big hits.
I give a talk at the new employee seminar every year and I always say the same thing about Nintendo: “It’s a company supported by products that are blockbusters.” If we have a big success every three or five years, we’re doing well. In that sense, if every employee constantly thinks about creating great success, we will manage. We should keep this in mind while doing our daily tasks. Everyone needs to be on the lookout for potential big hits, or we’ll miss them.
It’s clear that Nintendo is currently the company that achieves the most sales thanks to its games, despite the controversy that its releases never go down in price, sales continue to increase. In fact, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has some incredible figures and is the best-selling game on Nintendo Switch, and it seems that until a new release comes out, this figure will continue to increase significantly. We’ll see if at some point PlayStation and Xbox achieve a great success for Miyamoto.
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