SprachBrooks
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It could be a hit in Japan tbh.
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Betting time: Do you think the Switch will be a success?
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The sad thing is, people testing it seem to have a lot of fun with it, it's getting good previews. Just like Nintendo was stupid not to include the pictionary wario ware game with every Wii Unit sold - such a good showcase -, they designed the most advanced non VR motion controllers, no one will experience. Tens of thousands at most will pay for 1, 2 Switch.
Giving it for free to all owners would increase value perception, customer satisfaction and exposure to the stuff they spent years on. Nintendo, how come can you be so stupid, again?
Papacheeks
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Yup!
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
Wouldn't the size of the handheld make it unpopular there?
More importantly, why are Zelda BOTW Master Edition 3 & 4 in that chart... they don't even have a price - how can you preorder?!?
Is this common for Amazon charts....
SmokedMeat
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Not hurt financially. They're going to make a lot of money on accessories.
I am tempted to agree, but are we really saying this is worse than the surprise Sega Saturn Launch that went on to launch exclusively as certain retail stores?
Tarin02543
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every store I go to always has a huge supply of wii u's.
I expect this to continue.
I expect this to continue.
what happens if Sony drop the price of the slim and the pro by 50 bucks later this year?
Papacheeks
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Yea, hahaha no. Not when they have to at least buy a game and they have the giant selection of 4 games on MARCH 3RD, yay everyone rejoice Nintendo's back.
Calm Killer
In all media, only true fans who consume every book, film, game, or pog collection deserve to know what's going on.
At this point no. I don't believe it will do well at all. Reasons Below:
1. Cost to high. $249.99 would have made a difference.
2. Accessories cost to much. $70 for a controller?
3. 32 GB of storage? So I have to buy a SD card for more storage. More $$$
4. Online cost money. Not a big deal but, do I have to pay for the free games later?
5. Launch titles are meh. I can get Zelda on WiiU, why buy a new console for that?
6. Hardware is lacking, so the price should reflect that.
So It would cost me $490 for one game, a SD card, the system and a pro controller. For that much I can get a Scorpio (most likely) and I already have games and controllers for it.
1. Cost to high. $249.99 would have made a difference.
2. Accessories cost to much. $70 for a controller?
3. 32 GB of storage? So I have to buy a SD card for more storage. More $$$
4. Online cost money. Not a big deal but, do I have to pay for the free games later?
5. Launch titles are meh. I can get Zelda on WiiU, why buy a new console for that?
6. Hardware is lacking, so the price should reflect that.
So It would cost me $490 for one game, a SD card, the system and a pro controller. For that much I can get a Scorpio (most likely) and I already have games and controllers for it.
FinalStageBoss
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Idk. The presentation did nothing for me. If I had to bet I'd say flop.
talkingood
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This is me trying to decide if I should buy a Switch at launch. Each ball represents $100 CDN.
It's a game
As this is just one small mini-game of many, comparing a party game to a generic bland overly prescribed shooter. Chances are I would be having more fun with others playing such a party game than the latest Halo games - easily.
That's really optimistic. I was thinking more like 5-6 million.
Chaos2Frozen
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I think the Nintendo model of relying on first party exclusives is no longer viable.
There's no way they could single handedly supply enough games by themselves, who knows when those third party exclusive games are going to come out... 2 maybe 3 years later?
There's no way they could single handedly supply enough games by themselves, who knows when those third party exclusive games are going to come out... 2 maybe 3 years later?
I think Switch will be a success because of Zelda and Pokemon, despite how lukewarm the presentation made me feel. Most non-gamers I talked to said they would get a Wii U when Zelda releases. It's sure to be a system seller like Twilight Princess was.
Pokemon will be a huge system seller also.
Those two games are enough to put Switch ahead of Wii U at the very least.
"HD rumble" could make the system a massive success, depending on how amazing it turns out to be. It's hard to gauge from the video without trying it for myself. If it really
, it could be infectious at parties.
Pokemon will be a huge system seller also.
Those two games are enough to put Switch ahead of Wii U at the very least.
"HD rumble" could make the system a massive success, depending on how amazing it turns out to be. It's hard to gauge from the video without trying it for myself. If it really
makes you say wow
LSauchelli
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I think it will do a lot better than Wii U. But it will probably need a price drop if Nintendo wants it to be a huge success.
Ninja Scooter
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The "bad marketing" aspect of the Wii U was always overblown. Yeah Nintendo fucked up the marketing but at the end of the day he product was simply unappealing. I fail to see what someone who did not want a Wii U would see in this. Yes Nintendo's brand is huge, but it's one thing to play on people's nostalgia when you are trying to sell them on a free to play mobile game that runs on their existing device, versus selling them on a $300 dedicated video game device by showcasing the same kind of motion control mini game stuff that people rejected 5 years ago.
WhiteWaterM00se
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Lol,
If the rumors are true that at E3: Sony has exclusive rights to monster Hunter 5, and Xbox has a time exclusive deal for Sonic. Look out!!!! Lol. Just have Bethesda announce and release elder scrolls 6 around the same time as Skyrim Switch.
If the rumors are true that at E3: Sony has exclusive rights to monster Hunter 5, and Xbox has a time exclusive deal for Sonic. Look out!!!! Lol. Just have Bethesda announce and release elder scrolls 6 around the same time as Skyrim Switch.
FunkyPajamas
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You know, when they started with the price and I thought "damn, that's too high" and then they said they would showcase games I though "well, they're about to blow our minds and then the price won't be so bad" and... well... I mean, sure, Zelda looked good, but pretty much everything else (for me) was "wtf is this" (1 2 switch/arms), "son I am disappoint" (Xenoblade animu), "eh, that looks ok but not my thing" (mario/splatoon), etc. Nothing they showed (again, with the exception of Zelda) was interesting to me.
I can't imagine what my reaction would have been if they had withheld the price until the end. Like the worst "ta-da!" ever.
It did have a certain Konami 2010 vibe didn't it. The moment someone walked out dressed up in a costume and talking in character as a squid scientist in a professional system launch event was the moment the conference jumped the shark for me.
Spartancarver
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This is Nintendo's attitude as well. We'll see how that works out. $299 for that hardware is hysterical to me, but apparently there are plenty of Nintendo fans accepting and even defending it here.
Milly Osworth
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I wonder if the thing can be redeemed somehow. Cutting price and cancelling their insane idea to charge for online would be a start.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
It's a game
Jesus christ I must have missed this snippet. Not even a pack-in, they want people to buy this. FOR FIFTY DOLLARS?!?!?
They're insane.
Papacheeks
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No, Die hard Nintendo fans are trying to do damage control when not understanding the system is not fucking available for preorder on amazon right now. It's available at Bestbuy, Gamestop and target currently if there' s more someone update me.
The reason it's on the chart is it's being viewed and people are putting their email notifications in to get notified when it becomes available which is traffic that I guess amazon's system tracks.
I think it's going to have a really rough first ten months or so (with Zelda struggling to carry it in the west but Splatoon providing a large boost in Japan), before picking up speed in the autumn.
Once the usual handheld evergreen titles (Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Monster Hunter) get announced to stand alongside the home console heritage titles like Splatoon, Mario, Xenoblade etc, we'll have a better idea of whether merging their hardware, software and customer bases was a good plan or not.
Once the usual handheld evergreen titles (Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Monster Hunter) get announced to stand alongside the home console heritage titles like Splatoon, Mario, Xenoblade etc, we'll have a better idea of whether merging their hardware, software and customer bases was a good plan or not.
The Horror the horror
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Nintendo needs to clean house.
I don't know who the decision-makers are, but they're either receiving bad research or getting good information and simply interpreting it wrong.
I don't know who the decision-makers are, but they're either receiving bad research or getting good information and simply interpreting it wrong.
justjustin
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It'll be a painful start, but it's gonna mean Monster Hunter and Pokemon on your TV so I think it'll do just fine.
That's not how that works.
Cow Goes Moo
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I think it will struggle until the price goes down
Well after initial stock goes out which I assume will sell out for a couple of months
Well after initial stock goes out which I assume will sell out for a couple of months
Are we still sure monster hunter is exclusive and even coming to the switch? I still don't understand how Nintendo is letting them launch a new monster hunter on 3ds less than 2 weeks after the launch of the switch if they are still partners.
Psycho_Mantis
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Still a bad generalisation and as I said before, the statement just comes across as a poor defense mechanism towards the criticisms being spoken here.
digitalrelic
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Not many people, other than us hardcore gamers, are worried about having to play mobile for more than 3 hours. Seriously. It's a non-issue. And frankly it was completely unrealistic to ever expect anything more when considering what's being powered.
WhiteWaterM00se
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I think they are seriously looking for a company to absorb them. I'm not being salty or snide either. I'm saying this as someone who invested in this company. You can't pay people salaries in the millions of dollars to be this or of touch.
You sell Nintendo to the likes of Disney or Apple. It Wii make some money again.
Schopenhauerian
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Is that so? My understanding is that pre-orders were open for some time, long enough to sell through the quantities that were available for pre-order, and to thereby make an impact on the chart. Is that incorrect?
If it's correct, the question would be, simply: how long, exactly, do you expect this to last? And when exactly would you expect the Switch to come back down to Earth (as measured by this particular chart)?
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