People are loving their new system and are glad that it's doing well. If the system does well that means more support for the platform and a brighter future for it. Also, Nintendo needed a big win like this, many people love the company and are happy to see it do well.
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The photo that told me Nintendo hit a home run with Switch
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Jon Carter
Member
After five baffling years of it with the Vita, something had to keep those going. I love the Switch, so I'm glad we're getting those instead of depressing Wii U threads, but yeah the infatuation is weird.
AquaWateria
Member
Brah you don't understand the brutal years of WiiU was for Nintendo fans. So to actually see the Switch being a success so far is a blessing and gives people a reason to believe for better support.
Herb Alpert
Banned
I totally agree
It's ok to gush about things
Ofcourse this is a promotional thing. Either from the airline, management or a gift from Nintendo themselves. They certainly did not order their Switches off Amazon or something.
These guys get showered in promotional gifts and goodies wherever they go. Them enjoying it and posting photo's of it online is a big deal for Nintendo, seeing as it's basically free marketing.
These guys get showered in promotional gifts and goodies wherever they go. Them enjoying it and posting photo's of it online is a big deal for Nintendo, seeing as it's basically free marketing.
There's nothing wrong with sharing positive experiences with videogames. Lots of LTTPs are also love letters to games. Its not insecurity to want to share the joy of playing games. Not every thread has to be about complaints or news.
It's nothing new for when a new console comes out:
Finally joined modernity and bought a PS4 Pro
I'm the proud owner of a new PS4
etc
etc
The Internet is all about sharing experiences and pissing on others
Patrick Bateman
Member
The second mostly more than the first.
It's real to me goddammit.
D.Lo
Member
It is a very odd situation is why.
The Wii and DS were confident, explosively popular products (after a small misstep on the DS at the start) with new ideas that caught people's attention, and absolutely razor sharp marketing and positioning. And as a result were the two most profitable gaming platforms of all time and massively successful. The Wii in particular was a true zeitgeist product.
They were followed by two confusingly marketed, poorly positioned platforms. Too expensive, gimmicks most didn't really want, poorly designed, poorly named, you name it, they had the issues. Nintendo doubled down on 3DS and managed to recover to some respectability, but the Wii U was DOA and nothing ever really revived it.
Now the Switch is a massive return to form. Great name, new ideas that have resonated with the public, great design, razor sharp marketing, and clearly a positioning triumph. And is once again seemingly explosively popular, at least so far.
It's like Nintendo's recent (since the DS) run of scores for market positioning/design/success has been:
9/10
10/10
3/10
1/10
9/10
It's just hard to believe the same company has that record, it's such a bizarre record. As such, things making the Switch look more like the Wii than the Wii U are notable.
Imagine having a product where the clientele are desperate to immersed in that product's marketing. Cha-ching
AdventureMike
Member
I think that poster was referring to the threads that seem like owning a Switch is a life changing experience.
I like my Switch too. Played it in the waiting area while my windshield was being fixed. Very handy! But some of the threads that pop up that are like "Guys I just can't believe how BLESSED we are that Nintendo gave us the Switch!" Are a little odd.
AquaWateria
Member
I mean the Switch is a godsend for local multiplayer.
20cent
Banned
In some countries / flight companies, they still ask you to turn OFF your devices during landing/take-off and use airplane mode in flight
Not even close to most.
This...
...and this.
That's the basic policy for Alitalia here (where by the way only an *extremely* small percentage of the aircrafts have WiFi available)
It's like when Facebook became annoying by people posting " I'm washing my car" " I'm eating" kind of annoying. But man do I love my switch. I just don't see it necessary like you to have someone make a thread about it left and right. However I share their enthusiasm .
fabricated backlash
Member
Careful now. Down with that sort of thing.
Lest people enjoy themselves too much.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Heh.
Every topic where people seem to have fun and positive about all things would surely, without fail, invite someone like this who is self-masturbatory and claim that everyone in the said topic is acting like plebs whose acts are clearly, clearly beneath them and their impregnable sense of self-superiority.
It's a majority American forum, you kind of just have to roll with that everything is amazing and fantastic and the best thing ever mentality. You don't need to follow along (in fact sometimes it could use a bit of a sobering down) but being purposefully snarky and down on it just makes you look like an ass.
Milly Osworth
Member
You don't understand why people want to share their joy? Try to work on that.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
My hunch is that you were amused by all the dumping on the Wii U and how not many owned one.
llien
Member
Do you think a bunch of football players:
a) are into gaming
b) got console that is sold out like everywhere
c) took it with them
d) decided they absolutely have to share this unusual fact on twitter
for free?
Unless it is during takoff/landing it is fine.
Milly Osworth
Member
You realise most football players are around 20 years old with loads of free time right? Of course they game.
I'm not saying I disagree with you but I don't understand this point. A lot of super rich athletes (and even those who aren't "super rich") have access to a lot of stuff that is out of reach. Hell, they could have even dropped £500 on ebay for one and thought nothing of it.
miller.skippins
Banned
i mean...you are not wrong...the OG Xbone is physically huge when compared to even a PS4 Pro in Spain and all over the world.
miller.skippins
Banned
"Hey...how about a round of FIFA on the PS4 in the backroom later?"
"Sounds good."
Astral Dog
Member
3DS was very confident on its reveal dude. It was the following months post launch that dropped it.
Deserves a 5/10 at least for dat reveal alone.
Switch appeals to the smartphone generaton
And now i realize we are never going to have a reveal as beautiful as the 3DS one 😣
LOL.
What do you mean by reveal? The 3ds was quietly announced:
For all we knew, 3ds was a temporary name. And it had no big games for the longest and forced Nintendo to do the ambassador program.
I spotted an edgelord on the Internet!
You thinking about that models going around thing?
None of that is unrealistic. Footballers want things to do in their free time too.
Always-honest
Banned
I loved my WiiU. It was only frustrating if it was your only console.
There were (and are) some amazing games on it.
You'd know, since these are the same games you are playing on the Switch right now.
Why you laughing?
This is true. I had WiFi access on my most recent trips.
Than again I don't live in the states anymore and I wasn't flying in that part of the world.
a) Iniesta, the guy who tweeted, is a Nintendo fan and it's not the first time he shares something Nintendo related. Neymar is a MK fan.
b) That's not a big deal for super rich people
c) Well it's a fucking hybrid, a console you can take on the go...
d) See a)
But well, paid or not this sharing works the same in the end. It's a detail only important to warriors.
manueldelalas
Time Traveler
I mean, this is obviously marketing, and good marketing at that. We don't know the details, obviously.
Having said that, I think the Switch will be big with famous people, because of all the time they spend traveling from one place to another, even the 3DS with all it's glaring shortcomings, was big with famous people because of the library, but the Switch is on another level, and this is great marketing for Nintendo.
Having said that, I think the Switch will be big with famous people, because of all the time they spend traveling from one place to another, even the 3DS with all it's glaring shortcomings, was big with famous people because of the library, but the Switch is on another level, and this is great marketing for Nintendo.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
i dont understand why people question the existence of this thread
Not even just celebrities, portability is a huge boon for any platform in spite of much of GAF's objections to it.
It obviously can't sell a system on it's own
(Vita means dead)
D.Lo
Member
True but my overall point remains. Looking at home consoles only:
Wii -> Wii U - how the fuck did the same company do both of these?
Wii U -> Switch - how the fuck did the same company do both of these?
It's a 180 followed by a 180. Some unprecedented bizzaro symmetry.
3DS reveal was indeed pretty crazy, but it fell apart way before launch, primarily battery life and price reveals. And it's not quite as big a deal overall, since it didn't fall from DS because of merit, but primarily because of massively shifting market conditions due to the entire tech world changing due to smartphones.
TroicaBlur
Member
LOL... Has OP ever heard of PR?
I LOVE MY SWITCH! I just wanted you to know how much I love my Nintendo Switch. My precious Switch. So precious.
Buggy Loop
Member
So that we have more negativity than positivity?
Let me guess that this is an alt and that would were probably jumping of joy with PS4 success..
ClosingADoor
Member
This was totally a spontaneous photo and not at all paid for.
Isn't this the norm for just about everyone?
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