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Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope free this week for Nintendo Switch Online members
Nintendo has announced its next Switch Online trial for members.
Watch on YouTube However, despite warm critical reception, the Ubisoft developed and published game failed to set the company's financials alight. The company's CEO Yves Guillemot admitted it had been "surprised" by Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope's "underperformance in the final weeks of 2022 and early January". Guillemot went on to state this slightly lacklustre performance was likely down to the publisher's decision to release a sequel on Switch, ignoring Nintendo's advice to "only do one iteration [of Mario] on each machine".
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