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pokoko on 21 October 2016
Ljink96 said:
pokoko said:

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? 

GoW did not go viral and, no, "#1 trending for an entire day" is not proof of going viral.  Viral is Gangnam Style with 2 billion views or that Friday video coming out of nowhere for 100 million views.  I mean, you've got music videos and movie sneak peeks from yesterday that are at 6 million.



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Acevil on 21 October 2016
pokoko said:
Ljink96 said:

#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? 

GoW did not go viral and, no, "#1 trending for an entire day" is not proof of going viral.  Viral is Gangnam Style with 2 billion views or that Friday video coming out of nowhere for 100 million views.  I mean, you've got music videos and movie sneak peeks from yesterday that are at 6 million.

Sorry but for something to go viral it really only needs couple of millions (lets say 5 million for fun) above subscriber count of said place. A lot of E3 stuff goes viral, and so is this. Don't think just because something is 1/10th of the size of Friday it is isn't viral. 



 

bunchanumbers on 21 October 2016

Of course shares dropped. Investors looked at it and saw a 720p tablet you can pick up anywhere for like $40. I'd be leery of investing in this thing too.



Mr.Playstation on 21 October 2016

Is the Switch not sexy enough ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)



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Soundwave on 21 October 2016

To the layman it does look the Wii U concept redone, now people here can argue the nuances, but from an investor's POV I can see them looking at that and not getting as excited as a Nintendo fan would be. Nintendo fans by their nature will get excited any time you show a new Mario or Zelda.

So I'm not entirely surprised that investors aren't going crazy.

If it does run Android apps, I think Nintendo needs to communicate that, that will make investors happy.



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pokoko on 21 October 2016
Acevil said:
pokoko said:

GoW did not go viral and, no, "#1 trending for an entire day" is not proof of going viral.  Viral is Gangnam Style with 2 billion views or that Friday video coming out of nowhere for 100 million views.  I mean, you've got music videos and movie sneak peeks from yesterday that are at 6 million.

Sorry but for something to go viral it really only needs couple of millions (lets say 5 million for fun) above subscriber count of said place. A lot of E3 stuff goes viral, and so is this. Don't think just because something is 1/10th of the size of Friday it is isn't viral. 

So ... most major film trailers and preview clips, music videos, random TV show segments, and a ton of other stuff?  Good lord, we get viral videos pretty much everyday?  

Nah, I'd rather the term have some meaning.



Acevil on 21 October 2016
pokoko said:
Acevil said:

Sorry but for something to go viral it really only needs couple of millions (lets say 5 million for fun) above subscriber count of said place. A lot of E3 stuff goes viral, and so is this. Don't think just because something is 1/10th of the size of Friday it is isn't viral. 

So ... most major film trailers and preview clips, music videos, random TV show segments, and a ton of other stuff?  Good lord, we get viral videos pretty much everyday?  

Nah, I'd rather the term have some meaning.

The term last meaning back in the turn of this decade. 



 

Soundwave on 21 October 2016
Hiku said:
GribbleGrunger said:

Investors on Friday shrugged off the announcement, sending the company’s share price down 6.5%.
Some investors blamed a lack of surprise in the announcement for the lukewarm market response, saying the company raised high expectations by withholding details about the hardware for more than a year

The idea that they had to keep it a secret so that none of their close competitors would copy this idea and beat them to it on the market was ridiculous now that you look at what Switch is.
Did anyone at Nintendo really think Sony or Microsoft would do this?

As for smaller competitors, there are already some who have done similar things.

It's a neat idea but if investors were lefting saying "that's it?" ... I don't blame them. 

This isn't an idea that warranted 18 months of top level secrecy.



Culipechi on 21 October 2016

nothing strange



torok 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.

Agree. They should do some conferences to explain better what the Switch is, but keep the heavy annoucements to 2017. It's not good to show a bunch of games when your competitors are actually shipping a bunch on new games, VR, new hardware.



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