SMT 4 sold around 600k in 2 years heck apparently it's debut sales for atlus were only outdone by persona 4's. I know wikipedia but it gives a general overview for how it did.
Scramble's fucking new though.
It also requires direct knowledge of persona 5. It's apparently missing a ton of voiced lines which is why there's no set release date for the west.
idk man you can play FE Warriors or Hyrule Warriors without knowing the source material.
No the story mode for Scramble is a direct continuation of what happens in p5. It's about a malicious phone app.
It wouldn't have been hard because TMS has had success with SRPGS before. Hell, just make an SMT game set in the FE verse where you can summon FE characters as part of the heroes line. FE already has plenty of established monsters like dragons, laguz, taguel, zombies/"morphs", and all the monsters shown in Sacred Stone/FE Gaiden (Fates, Echoes, and 3H came after TMS iirc, but there's still plenty of monsters.)
I remember being at least curious when I heard of "FE x SMT", years later I wondered what had happened to that and found out it became a game about Idols featuring Fire Emblem characters and I was very confused.
it's very fucking confusing.
That's still going to suffer the issue of the game before it not being on the system. A recent example would be Cold Steel and how it even went out of i's way to have a separate expanded prologue for the past two games for 3's release and nobody bit.
looks like it's for a kids room or maybe a game/entertainment den?
The amount of custom work and the fact that the switch will only last a few more years means that in 3-4 he'll have to spend more money to re-do the whole room.
I give it like 3-4, 5 years max. However I do think that the Switch might just have an upgraded hybrid successor that gets backwards compatibility as well.
i think Nintendo's going into carts because they last better than disks and the slot would be an easy to attach thing for a future backwards-compatible feature.
Atlus wanted to do that, but some higher up said that they might as well do what they are good at. How that evolved into an Idol RPG is beyond me. Apparently, one of the first concepts was of a rocket pegasus, but again how do you reach idols from there?
I don't think Full Body or Scramble's numbers are a very good metric to judge how well Atlus games do on Switch. The former was a port of an already niche game that had been out for months on a different system and the latter is a sequel to something that's not even on the Switch. SMT V will be the real test since that's an actual exclusive and part of a series traditionally on Nintendo platforms. I'm not expecting Nocturne HD to do very well on either platform since it's looking like it'll basically be an 18 year old game sold at full price without any QoL improvements.