There are so many people who were surprised about the announcement that Nobody Nintendo made days ago regarding the absence of handheld gameplay for Super Mario Party. Nintendo has revealed that Super Mario Party would only be playable in TV and tabletop mode mainly because the Joy-Cons are needed for the mini-games which is total understandable. Besides a majority of Mario Party games that we have seen since 1998 have been played in TV mode for past two decades. Its highly, unlikely that the sales of Super Marty Party will not be affected by the absence of handheld gameplay.

In fact, the latest game in the series Mario Party 10 is proof of that since it managed to sell over 2.1 million units worldwide despite receiving a mixed reception in relation to its gameplay following its Wii-U release back in 2015. Its pretty hard to predict how Super Mario Party will do in sales within the first week or month but it seems likely to surpass Mario Party 10 seeing how popular the Nintendo Switch currently is. The exclusion of handheld gameplay should not be a critical factor on how the Super Mario Party performs in terms of sales at all.