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Kimishima thinks the Switch has the potential to reach Wii-like sales
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Jaded Alyx
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Nope, he said Nintendo thought it would but he didn't. He thought it would be a tough sell.
frankie_baby
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There was no real Wii U price cuts because they couldn't really afford to cut it without losing a packet, not only was a lot of the tech exotic giving little room to reduce prices, considering the final total of around 14 million is probably what prior to release Nintendo expected to shift in the first 12 months alone a most of those expensive exotic components will probably have already been bought at 2012 prices
Dark Cloud
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This topic is getting saved and revisited. I'm not going to pretend like I'm some businessman and say I know for sure it won't sell Wii like numbers. It'll be interesting to see. I don't think it'll make it there though.
Skittzo0413
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I mean, what will happen if/when this drops to $200, and then $150 and does have the combined output of all of Nintendo's teams? Including Pokemon and AC?
Honestly, the more important information to take away from that prediction is that they have the production capacity for 100 million Switches, although over an unknown time period.
Honestly, the more important information to take away from that prediction is that they have the production capacity for 100 million Switches, although over an unknown time period.
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.
Still expecting that Wii audience to come back post the smartphone/tablet boom is just... not understanding the electronics market anymore.
Nintendo will be very lucky to still be making hardware in a decade but they have delusions they could sell the most by a wide margin this generation? Guess Kimishima has to play pretend just like Iwata did to keep investors settled for as long as possible.
Nintendo will be very lucky to still be making hardware in a decade but they have delusions they could sell the most by a wide margin this generation? Guess Kimishima has to play pretend just like Iwata did to keep investors settled for as long as possible.
Tom Nook Sawyer
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Are we 100% the translation's accurate?
Someone's going to set a reminder to check this thread in 5 years.
Just like that Apple Watch thread lol
Geno Breaker
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I'll remember ;^)
Reggie did say to talk him a year from now, so they could go nuclear in terms of software in the next 12 months or it be typical Reggie PR
Cow Goes Moo
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this is gonna be one of those threads people will look back at years down the road, for better or worse
Expecting the Switch to sell as well as the Wii doen't mean that he expects the Wii crowd to be back.
MHWilliams
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It's good to dream big though. Who knows, maybe it could get there.
//DEVIL//
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Before the release of the WiiU /ps4/ Xbox one, there was a prediction thread here at neogaf where many predicted Sony will be dead last or out of the race completely. Look at how things turned out.
No one knows what the public will eat . This thing could flop horribly or fly in terms of sales.
But one would predict when a console has been known to third party developers for at least a year now and there is only 4 games day one. You will know there is something wrong here .
So who knows really
No one knows what the public will eat . This thing could flop horribly or fly in terms of sales.
But one would predict when a console has been known to third party developers for at least a year now and there is only 4 games day one. You will know there is something wrong here .
So who knows really
Skittzo0413
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That's a good question, and also do we know if he specified a time period for these sales? If the Switch is Nintendo's line for the next 30 years 100M would be a bit disappointing.
Surely he meant "Wii U" right? It will probably beat GC as well...
Speaking as a final count, with Wii U and 3DS userbases combined, i can see Switch selling about 40 million, but i think it'll be a big drop compared to 3DS in the end
Speaking as a final count, with Wii U and 3DS userbases combined, i can see Switch selling about 40 million, but i think it'll be a big drop compared to 3DS in the end
disappeared
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Nintendo's like an addict at this point. Trying to chase that original high again and again.
JordanN
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It's all marketing/shareholder speech at the end of the day. I don't think he's going to say anything negative.
Wii wasn't just something unique. The games that were made for it were very different. You could pick up a wiimote and play baseball, or use 2 controllers and go boxing.
With the Switch, the new games are going to be...??? They showed a man holding ice cubes in his hand. Is that what the masses want to play?
If the other idea is "console gaming on the go" well, we kinda had that already, twice. PSP and its ill fated successor, PS Vita.
You'll see some decent numbers in a month a new big first party title is released, but expect nothing more than that. It's been said countless times that the big third party mainstream games are what sells consoles, or more accurately, a consistent slew of them. Right now, the Switch has sparse third party support akin to the Wii U and it is unlikely to change unless the Switch does much better than expected, which in itself is very unlikely.
Soooo when the Wii first launched did you guys ever think it would sell as much as it did?
I can appreciate the confidence Nintendo has. It must mean they have a good pricing, marketing, and pipeline in the long run for the Switch
I can appreciate the confidence Nintendo has. It must mean they have a good pricing, marketing, and pipeline in the long run for the Switch
or at least I fucking hope so because it hurts seeing disappointment after disappointment after disappointment
Nydius
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Three things made the Wii become a standout success:
- Wii Sports, a solo and group friendly pack in that, while being mostly a tech demo, set the stage for what the Wii could do and got people interested. I know people who bought the damn thing based on Bowling and Tennis alone;
- Price relative to other video game competition - Wii's $249 compared to Xbox 360's $299+; and
- Advertising, both TV and word of mouth. Wii had regularly played, smart, TV advertising campaign ("Wii would like to play!") and Wii Sports launched word of mouth advertising, with people selling the concepts of the system to people who might not have otherwise been interested.
Switch has none of these. No pack in, and even if 1, 2, Switch came with it, it would pale in comparison to Wii Sports as a vehicle to drive interest due to the entire concept (a video game that omits the video parts to play). The price is going to be as high, if not higher, than their established opponents. I see regular deals for the PS4 Slim and the XBOne S for $249. And advertising? One month away and advertising is limited to Youtube and internet sites.
This doesn't even get into the comparison of accessory costs (you could have bought a second Wiimote, Nunchuck and a pro controller for less than a second pair of Switch joy-cons).
Switch is going to sell to diehards then drop off, which is pretty much the same level of sales as the Wii U. It will probably expand a little bit beyond that and end up selling slightly better than the Wii U.
- Wii Sports, a solo and group friendly pack in that, while being mostly a tech demo, set the stage for what the Wii could do and got people interested. I know people who bought the damn thing based on Bowling and Tennis alone;
- Price relative to other video game competition - Wii's $249 compared to Xbox 360's $299+; and
- Advertising, both TV and word of mouth. Wii had regularly played, smart, TV advertising campaign ("Wii would like to play!") and Wii Sports launched word of mouth advertising, with people selling the concepts of the system to people who might not have otherwise been interested.
Switch has none of these. No pack in, and even if 1, 2, Switch came with it, it would pale in comparison to Wii Sports as a vehicle to drive interest due to the entire concept (a video game that omits the video parts to play). The price is going to be as high, if not higher, than their established opponents. I see regular deals for the PS4 Slim and the XBOne S for $249. And advertising? One month away and advertising is limited to Youtube and internet sites.
This doesn't even get into the comparison of accessory costs (you could have bought a second Wiimote, Nunchuck and a pro controller for less than a second pair of Switch joy-cons).
Switch is going to sell to diehards then drop off, which is pretty much the same level of sales as the Wii U. It will probably expand a little bit beyond that and end up selling slightly better than the Wii U.
They may have forgotten a letter, maybe a U after the Wii.
Dark Ninja
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Well he's not gonna go out there and say he want's it to sell as much as the Wii U
WII was the perfect combination of an unique hardware and software gimmick ( motion controls + dedicated software like Wii Fit , Wii Sports etc ) at the perfect time. On top of that great marketing , right pricing , good support and so on.
Switch is a great hardware but the " on the go " concept is not comparable, at all..
Ricerocket
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That ain't happening with a tablet approach they got going.
Wii + Wii Sports made the Wii a success. A tablet like device in an ocean of others who have one isn't going to do it.
Wii + Wii Sports made the Wii a success. A tablet like device in an ocean of others who have one isn't going to do it.
The salt on GAF could be worse than the Wii days. Seems hard to believe with the Switch hype and disgust core gamers had for motion controls, but there are people that have a deep seated resentment for Nintendo building up over decades, for them to never make another "real console" with Wii-like success of a hybrid would make people lose it.
Same. Glad I didn't have to get past the first page to find it.
Interfectum
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Empyrean Heaven
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Smiles and Cries
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the price is not right for that and the power nah man nah