Nintendo Switch successor a better fit for Mario + Rabbids sequel, says Ubisoft CEO
The sequel underperformed
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It looks like Ubisoft should’ve held off on aMario+ Rabbids sequel until Nintendo’s next flagship console launched.
That’s according to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, who commented onMario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope’sunderwhelming commercial performance in comparison to its predecessor, despite the glowingly positive reception and award nominations the sequel would go on to receive.
“We had already released a Mario + Rabbids game [on Switch], so by doing another we had two similar experiences on one machine,” Guillemot said in an interview withGamesIndustry.biz. “On Nintendo, games like this never die. There are 25 Mario games on Switch.
“Nintendo [has advised] that it’s better to do one iteration on each machine,” he continued. “We were a bit too early, we should have waited for [the next console].”
There’s a few things to pull from Guillemot’s analysis here. There are indeed alotof Mario titles onNintendo Switch. Many we’d even consider thebest Nintendo Switch gamesyou can buy. But with such an abundance, some of those projects are likely to get lost in the sauce; a fate that seems to have befallenMario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope.
The “one iteration on each machine” comment checks out. From his mainline 3D platformers to sports and karting titles, you typically see one of each across Nintendo console generations. That’s certainly the case for Mario Kart, which has only ever featured one title per console. The same mostly goes for his big 3D outings (unless you countSuper Mario Galaxy 2) and the popular Tennis subseries.
Still, despite the underperformance of the Mario + Rabbids sequel, it doesn’t seem to have burnt any bridges between Ubisoft and Nintendo. There’s every chance we see a third game in the strategy series show up on future Nintendo hardware.
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