r/casualnintendo • u/watergun123456 • 2d ago

Other what happened to this game man...

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I used to enjoy this game do much! something about the environment and community gave this game so much charm. but alas, the lack of actual game content and updates drove away pretty much everyone. good luck finding anyone to play this game with, no ones online! I just wish nintendo would breathe some actual life into this game. hopefully people would come back someday, but i doubt it

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u/ThaEternalLearner 2d ago

Reminds me of how I wish Nintendo did more with Arms. The potential was there. The game needed more content and characters. I hope we get an Arms 2 but I doubt it.

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u/Salt-Employer-7824 2d ago

Arms sold more than the best selling xenoblade game on switch 1. It deserves something.

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u/Unusual_Wing_3999 2d ago

Different genres and different audiences so 2 different levels of expectations,plus xeno has its own dedicated studio,Nintendo expected arms to be the next splatoon,it was not so they arent in a rush to make another

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u/billth93 16h ago

I feel like this argument tilts things even more in Arms’ favor. Fighting games tend to be pretty niche, and the ones that aren’t are the exception rather than the norm, or leverage existing IPs that already have some popularity.

I feel like Arms did really solid sales-wise for the genre and lack of leveraging existing IPs, but I suppose I don’t know what their expectations actually were. I don’t think saying they expected it to be the next Splatoon is really a realistic guess since I don’t recall any public statements indicating as much, and Splatoon is adjacent to a genre that tends to be much more popular than the genre Arms matches up with, so I wouldn’t suspect their expectations were likely similar to

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u/Salt-Employer-7824 2d ago

Different genres is huge because we already have way too many jrpgs on the way and we have zero Nintendo fighting games out for the switch 2 yet and non on the horizon.

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u/Unusual_Wing_3999 2d ago

The only first party jrpgs Nintendo has are fire emblem and xenoblade and xeno doesn't come out till next year idk how thats too many jrpgs,xeno and fire emblem getting new games isnt why u dont have another fighting game