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m_csquare on 21 October 2016

Expected. No specs and no new titles. Theres no way id want to invest on something that i know nothing abt



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torok on 21 October 2016

Well, I said that announcing it with a simple video instead of a conference was a bad idea. It looked as an afterthought.

They need to put some marketing to use and sell the idea to the world.



Bet with jetforcejiminy: PS4 will pass the Wii lifetime numbers.

Acevil on 21 October 2016

So tempted to buy and sell really quickly after, I'm going to see what the price is on Monday. Still regret not buying in before Pokemon Go.



 

Faelco on 21 October 2016
torok said:
Well, I said that announcing it with a simple video instead of a conference was a bad idea. It looked as an afterthought.

They need to put some marketing to use and sell the idea to the world.

That's it. Everyone is looking at them right now. They should already be announcing a Nintendo Direct or a conference to announce the details. But the WSJ also said that they will wait for 2017 to show games (and maybe other details?). That would be really stupid IMO to shout "Hey guys! This is the NX!" to attract everyone's attention, and then go back to silence for 3 months while people go back to buying the PS4 Pro and the One S for Christmas.



pokoko on 21 October 2016

The reveal ended up being a non-entity when it comes to financial speculation, so that's not much of a surprise. No price, no specs, no clear picture about Nintendo's overall strategy, and no game-changing surprises. Had to feel like a false start for investors.



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Proxy-Pie on 21 October 2016

Obviously. They want mobile only.



alternine on 21 October 2016
Faelco said:
torok said:
Well, I said that announcing it with a simple video instead of a conference was a bad idea. It looked as an afterthought.

They need to put some marketing to use and sell the idea to the world.

That's it. Everyone is looking at them right now. They should already be announcing a Nintendo Direct or a conference to announce the details. But the WSJ also said that they will wait for 2017 to show games (and maybe other details?). That would be really stupid IMO to shout "Hey guys! This is the NX!" to attract everyone's attention, and then go back to silence for 3 months while people go back to buying the PS4 Pro and the One S for Christmas.

This.



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Ljink96 on 21 October 2016

It was up, then it was down. Thus is the way of the stock market. Switch is going viral right now but I agree we weren't' shown enough to convince people. They want to see games and the price. If a price was announced, it could have gone better or worse. Switch needs to be $300 and $350 max. Now that we know the dock doesn't add any more power I think $299 is doable. If they could get it down to $250 that'd be better.



pokoko on 21 October 2016
Ljink96 said:
It was up, then it was down. Thus is the way of the stock market. Switch is going viral right now but I agree we weren't' shown enough to convince people. They want to see games and the price. If a price was announced, it could have gone better or worse. Switch needs to be $300 and $350 max. Now that we know the dock doesn't add any more power I think $299 is doable. If they could get it down to $250 that'd be better.

It's a long way from what can be called viral when it hasn't sold a single unit.  If you mean the youtube views, that's a long ways from viral, as well.  If it continues to grow at an explosive rate, sure.



Ljink96 on 21 October 2016
pokoko said:
Ljink96 said:
It was up, then it was down. Thus is the way of the stock market. Switch is going viral right now but I agree we weren't' shown enough to convince people. They want to see games and the price. If a price was announced, it could have gone better or worse. Switch needs to be $300 and $350 max. Now that we know the dock doesn't add any more power I think $299 is doable. If they could get it down to $250 that'd be better.

It's a long way from what can be called viral when it hasn't sold a single unit.  If you mean the youtube views, that's a long ways from viral, as well.  If it continues to grow at an explosive rate, sure.

#1 trending for an entire day, 10M views in 1 day on the world's largest video sharing platform is kind of big for Nintendo. This hasn't happend to them before... GoW IV went "viral" and nobody had anything to say about that, so why when it's Nintendo...it isn't up to snuff?